242 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. December, 



wa.s absolutely full of honey, pollen, precluded from attacking those who 

 brooil and bees on Sept. 10th. and adulterate our products after they 

 honey coming freely from golden-rod leave our hands. 



followed a week later by that from As to the la«t question In Mt. 

 asters (a water- white honey). The Latham's article: At that dale I 

 super contained a dozen or fourteen would take the honey every time, 

 boxes in which the bees were working. Earlier I would use the sugar (if I had 

 of which some were then taken away not honey enough on hand) and con- 

 and eight or ten left. All contained sider it safe on the grounds stated 

 bright golden-rod honey. October by Mr. Latham. It is a starvation 

 20th, after all flowers were gone these condition. 



eight or ten boxes were full of strong In reply to the charge of indefinitc.- 

 dark honey — seemingly buckwheat. ness. That was partly unavoidable 



Mr. Latham's remark on actions of because I was not at liberty to state 

 bees with different queens I think is how I obtained my proof, and partly 

 miisleading. Other factors such as because much had been said before 

 temperature, size of hive, amount of and I tried to avoid repetition. Also 

 pollen in combs, and a lot more, have I have been having a lot of quiet fun 

 a bearing. poking pins into the pet theories of 



Regarding the next to the last para- some of the boys by stating things I 

 graph, I would only call attention to have seen and they have not. I have 

 the fact that most honey is produced been able so to do by using appliances 

 beyond reach of candy shops and and methodis of which they seem to 

 neighbors' sweets. Honey, as a rule, know nothing. In due time these will 

 is not produced in preserving time, be published in these columns. 

 Feeding by dishonest persons purpose- Arthur C. Miller, 



ly for sale of the stored syrup is not Providence R. I., Nov. 11, 1905. 



what I am now fighting. It is the 



promiscuous and careless use of 



syrups which permits and generally 



assures their admixture with the hon- ^hey Are Regarded With Favor on Short 



ey. that I am combating. Such use is Acquaintance. 



CAVCASIAXS. 



By Swarthmore. 



embraced in the practice of spring 



feeding, except where that is very 



carefully done: of feeding during lulls j HAVE HAD but part of one sea- 



in the nectar flow, which is very bad; I gon'^ experience with Caucasian 



and of charging the brood-nest with * ^ees. My first imported queens 



syrup prior to the honey flow, which ^lied in transit but later secured one 



is most pernicious. iu good condition by sending provis- 



Besides that, the very appearance jo^ed cages to the breeder of this 



of evil is sufficient to condemn the y^qq jq Caucasus. 



practice. Persons who know us well, pr^m this imported mother I at 



may take our word for the purity of QQ^e proceeded to rear drones in very 



our goods, but the great pubhc will jai-gg number^: taking it away ais 



not. hence we must needs try to avoid f^st as secured and placing it ,in 



using sugar, rearrange our methods queenless nuclei for development, 



so as to be forehanded enough to keep T^jg ^.^s quite late in the season but 



a reasonable supply of honey on hand i succeeded in rearing several batches 



for such purposes ( i.e. capital with ^f flj,e ^ells. By the time I had every. 



which to conduct the business) and tiding i^ readiness for mating in a 



blacklist everyone who recommends distant yard all other drones had been 



the use of syrup for aught but to pre- i^jned off which left me an absolutely 



vent starvation. This may sound radi- clean 'field for mating up the numbers 



cal, but weigh it well before deciding, of young Caucasian queens I was 



In all our discussions let us not holding in cages to await their turn 



lose sight of the fact that so long as at the mating nuclei, 



there is even a remote possibility of Out of the several lots of queens 



the .syrup we feed getting into the I selected 32 and introduced them to 

 honey we are to offer for sale, we full stocks — these young queens com- 

 cannot guarantee its puritj- and we are menced laying at once and proved 



