1904 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPEK. 



157 



ORANGE BLOSSOM HONEY. 



By E. B. Rood. 



MERICAN BEE-KEEPER:— ] 

 was surpriseil at Mr. W. S 

 ■ Hart's article in tlie July Bee- lurking in your mouth." 



conipellecl to yive an eight-frame hive 

 four stories. I regret that my un- 

 mixed orange blosscjm honey is all 

 gone, but if you care for some nyxt 

 spring you may expect a sample of 

 light amber honey, of good (luality 

 that will leave no "disagreeable taste 



Keeper, in which he expresses an 

 opinion that a barrel of pure orange 

 blossom honey was never shipped 

 froui Florida and still more surprised 

 that the editor of the Bee-Keeper has 

 only once in his life tasted what was 

 "said to be pure orange-blossom 

 honey." 



Braidentown, Fla., July 4th, 1904. 



This IS very interesting, and the ed- 

 itor of The Bee-Iveeper will greatly 

 appreciate a sample of pvfe orange 

 blossom honey. Possibly, the nature 

 of the soil upon which the trees grow 

 My first enthusiasm fcir bee-keeping ^^^ something to do with the nectar 



secretion, which may account for the 

 diversity of opinion in this regard. We 

 requested Mr. Brown to contribute an 

 article upon this subject for our last 



was aroused by A. F. Brown's (the 

 migratory liee-keeper) success in se- 

 curing orange blossom honey at Glen- 

 wood , Volusia county. Florida 



By "Swarthmore." 



March 1SIJ4. He brought 200 colonies |««"e, but he declined to do so.— Ed- 

 there just as the blossoms were open- ^*^'''- 

 ing. They had been fed up strong 



and immediately began to store honey ADVERTISING HONEY. 

 quite freely. He sold us comb and 

 extracted honey and we thought he 



was producing it in almost unlimited 



quantities. He has since told me, T WAS very much interested in Mr. 

 however, that he secured 10,000 J[ W. L. Coggshell's reference to the 

 pounds, or ."iO pounds per colony. Th.s sale of honey through an adv. 

 must have been ahnost pure orangv placed in an Ithaca local newspaper 

 blossom honey, for nothing else was because I had exactly the same ex- 

 near that any one claims produced an perience, with the exception of the 

 appreciable amount of honey. It was word "strained" which I did not use; 

 before gall berry or palmetto and very but I did say that the prodiict offered 

 tittle of either were within range. for sale was "guaranteed pure." 



I am located in the heart of the or- I am of the opinion that it was not 

 ange groves of Manatee county, and, the tcfm "strained'' entirely that sold 

 though I have never equalled Mr. Mr. Cogshell's honey, it was the pub- 

 Brown's record, I get several barrels licity given to an excellent article of 

 )f crange blossom honey every year, food which created a craving among 



Two years ago I exti'aeted .30 all who read the "ad." 

 )ounds per colony from one apiary The most successful articles of food 

 ind this year I extracted in all about are those which are widely adver- 

 ,000 pounds, but my gall berry ter- tised. People will read what one has 

 toi'y was badly burned and the saw to say. They have no time to listen 

 almetto a total failure, so I did not at the door. Honey judiciously ad- 

 xtract closely. It is quite true that vertised and properly packed would 

 range blossoms aire not a prolific stand as good a show in tlie general 

 ource of honey, but I expect a strong market as any of the canned or 

 |olony to store 2.0 to .'iO pounds if it tinned good.s now crc-ried in enormous 

 oes not swarm. I have shaken a stocks all the way down froiu the job- 

 using colony on foundation in a ten- ber in groceries to the smallest re- 

 rame hive, adding a second story of taller of table goods. 

 mbs a few days later and in two As an experiment I placed a stock 

 eeks both were fuU. the lower story of extfacte<I honey in glass with my 

 brood and the upiier of sealed hon- grocer and started a series of five-line 

 And it is not uncommon to be readers in my own local newspaper 



