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by tnanufacturing It, there Is a chance for him to make a 

 thousand dollars. I went to the editor of the Washington 

 Star with ao article and askt him to publish it. He said he 

 didn't want to do it. I said, "You are bound to do it be- 

 cause you have publisht a lie here, and there are storekeepers 

 here who are tired of answering questions about the matter. 

 Do it or say you won't do it, and I will go and tell them that 

 you refuse." He did publish quite a long article. I went to 

 the Post editor, and he said he would have to refer me to the 

 advertising editor. He wanted to charge advertising rates to 

 publish that article. I said that in his Sunday edition (which 

 is the largest edition in the city) he had pullsht that lie to de- 

 ceive the people, and I thought it was due to the people that 

 he should publish the truth. But he wouldn't tell the truth 

 without being paid advertising rates. 



Dr. Mason — I believe just as I answered at first — subsidize 

 the press. Most of us live in localities where papers are pub- 

 lisht. We can take the editor a sample of honey and illus- 

 trate to him how it is produced, and he will become interested. 

 The Toledo Blade has a large circulation, and 1 do not have 

 any trouble in getting into the paper anything I want in that 

 line. They are anxious that the articles shall be brief and to 

 the point, and I show to the editor some comb honey and tell 

 him how it is produced, and all about It. If I can, I take along 

 some bees. 



Mr. Danzenbaker — I took a box of honey with me — six 

 pounds, and I left a box of honey with the editor of the Star. 

 I took another box to the editor of the Post, and showed it to 

 him, and told him I would like him to have that — if he had a 

 family, I would like him to take it home and test it — that I 

 would make him a present of it. He took it as an offense. 

 He acted as if he thought I was trying to bribe him. I have 

 found Dr. Miller's article on the food value of honey, or honey 

 as food, to be a great help. I have scattered it among the 

 people, and I would leave in the stores a hundred or two and 

 tell them to give them to their customers. I gave one of those 

 pamphlets to a lady on the market, and the next day she came 

 to me and said she had read it, and she wanted a box of 

 honey. Three weeks afterward she came to me and told 

 me her son had had la grippe, and that the honey I had 

 sold her had cured him. She turned to three or four ladies 

 there and told them about it, and they all bought honey. 



Mr. Whitcomb — Dr. Mason insinuates that the press of 

 Nebraska has not been subsidized. Not very long ago a gen- 

 tleman here in the room undertook to get a write-up into one 

 of our Omaha papers. The person who undertook to do the 

 writing carried away the honey all regular, and then as a re- 

 turn he wrote that the gentleman who gave him the honey 

 said that the Nebraska bee-keepers were using a new system 

 — that they put into the hive sheets of glass so that when the 

 bees were making the comb they could back up against the 

 glass, and so get the comb all straight and nice. [Laughter.] 

 You will often find that you will do better to write the articles 

 yourself. 



THE FOOD VALUE OP HONEY. 



Mr. Whitcomb — I think we entirely underrate the food 

 value of honey. 1 think one pound of honey contains more 

 nutriment than two pounds of pork. I don't believe there is 

 any family that uses honey to any extent that has any use for 

 a doctor. I don't believe there is anything in pure honey that 

 is not assimilated by the system. I believe it is the only thing 

 we eat or drink in which there is not something left to be 

 thrown off. In my institute work over this State I have made 

 inquiries concerning unhealthy children in families where 

 honey has entered into their diet every day. I don't believe 

 unhealthy children can be found in those families which use 

 honey as an every-day diet. 



Dr. Miller — I have heard Mr. Whitcomb go over that story 

 time after time — 



Mr. Whitcomb^I have told it so many times that I be- 

 lieve it to be a fact. [Laughter.] 



Dr. Miller — I want to say that if the rest of you will do 

 that same thing the people will soon know more about honey 

 than they do. I don't believe you know anything about the 

 medicinal value of honey as you should; I don't believe you 

 know the food value of honey as you should ; I don't believe 

 you know the difference between honey and sugar as you 

 should. We have people dying all about us because of the 

 over-use of sugar. Does more than one out of every half- 

 dozen use honey in his coffee in place of sugar, with the 

 knowledge that he is going to prolong his life by it ? 



Mr. Danzenbaker — There is one point in regard to the 

 natural craving of all children for sweets. Every parent 

 knows how they long for sweets. People look upon honey as 

 too much of a luxury. I have seen people go by In the mar- 

 ket with children, and the children would stop and come back 

 to look at the honey, and I would say to the mother that the 



natural craving of that child was for sweets, and that she 

 ought to give him honey. I would hand her one of those 

 leaflets, and probably the next time she came along I would 

 sell to her. The reason there is not more honey used to-day 

 is because grown-up people didn't have it when they were chil- 

 dren. Children desire it. We want to teach parents their 

 duty to buy It for their children. 



Dr. Mason — We used considerable honey in our family 

 during the time of la grippe, and we discovered one thing — I 

 think I have already said something about it : Those of our 

 family who used plenty of honey didn't have la grippe, and 

 those who hadn't used it did. 



D. A. McGregor — I have the la grippe pretty nearly every 

 winter, and I use more honey than almost any one else. 



Mr. Danzenbaker — I have never had the la grippe in my 

 life. 



Mr. Cameron — How much longer would a man live who 

 used honey instead of sugar? 



Dr. Miller — I don't know, but I do know that there are 

 men dead to-day who would be living if they had used honey 

 in the place of sugar. Sugar affects the kidneys. 



EXTRACTED VS. COMB HONEY FOR HEALTH. 



"Do you think that extracted honey is more healthful than 

 comb honey ? Is the wax in comb honey a detriment to health ?" 



Dr. Miller — It depends nn the character of the honey. I 

 don't know any reason why exiracted honey might not be just 

 as good as comb honey. As a matter of fact, I believe the 

 average sample of comb honey as you find it on the market Is 

 better than the average sample of extracted honey. It is bet- 

 ter ripened, because the honey is left until it is sealed. Some- 

 times the bees may seal unripened honey, but as a rule they 

 do not ; and while those who extract honey might always 

 leave it until it is ripened, as a rule they do not. So you may 

 have a sample of extracted honey that Is just as good as the 

 best comb honey, but the average sample is not so good as the 

 average sample of comb honey. As to the matter of the wax. 

 It is indigestible, but I don't think it makes much difference. 

 It Is simply that there are particles of foreign matter there. 

 I think at one time Mr. Bingham stated that the particles of 

 waxhelpt to flavor the honey ; but I don't believe they do, as 

 the wax itself has scarcely any flavor. 



Mr. Whitcomb— The honey is not to blame because we 

 take it unripened. Because the bee-keeper takes the honey 

 before it is ripened, that ought not to be charged as a fault of 

 the honey. 



Dr. Miller — Take it as it is found on the market, and the 

 best extracted honey is just as good as the best comb honey. 

 If I were to take it for my own use I would rather have the 

 extracted, because the wax is indigestible, and while it may 

 not do any harm it doesn't do any good. There is a possibility 

 that it may do an infinitesimal amount of harm. 



Mr. Cameron — How do you know that wax is indigestible ? 



Dr. Miller — Practically I don't know it, but I feel confi- 

 dent of it. I do not know it so well that I could give you 

 positive proof of it, but I think I could by taking time for it. 

 Some of you may remember that your grandmothers used 

 corks of beeswax to close bottles of sulphuric acid. The wax 

 was not affected by the strongest sulphuric acid, and I doubt 

 if it can be affected by the weaker hydrochloric acid of the 

 human stomach. I think that is pretty good proof. 



Mr. Cameron — I know that bee-keepers hold that view of 

 it, but I have never seen any proofs. There is a worm that 

 lives on beeswax, and it seems if the worm can digest it a 

 man ought to. 



Dr. Miller — Because a worm can digest it is no proof that 



a man can. 



(Continued next week.) 



Honey as Food is a neat little 24-page pamphlet 

 especially gotten up with a view to creating a demand for 

 honey among should-be consumers. The forepart of the 

 pamphlet was written by Dr. C. 0. Miller, and is devoted to 

 general information concerning honey. The latter part con- 

 sists of recipes for use in cooking and as a medicine. It 

 will be found to be a very effective helper in working up a 

 home market for honey. We furnish them, postpaid, at these 

 prices: A sample for a stamp; 25 copies for 30 cents; 50 

 for 50 cents; 100 for 90 cents ; 250 for $2.00; 500 for 

 $3.50. For 25 cents extra we will print your name and ad- 

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