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VoL XVIII. Chicago, lU., November 8, 1882. 



No. 45. 



Pul)llshed every Wednesday by 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



Kditok ani> Pkoprietoh. 



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TOPICS PRESENTED THIS WEEK. 



Editorial— 



EditoriHl Items 705 



G I utting the Honey Market 705 



The Ulucdne Fraud 705 



Home Market 705 



interestinji Statistics !!!!!!! 706 



Honey iis Ko.hI and Medicine 716 



Honey and Beeswax Market 717 



The Apiury Register 716 



AmoU^ Our Exchanges- 

 Does the Vueenlead the Swarm? 707 



Enormous Honey Yields 707 



Honey Harvest Abundant 707 



Prepare for Winter 707 



Correspondence — 



My Experience with the New Bees 708 



Electric Alarm for the Apiary 708 



The Wintering of Bees 709 



Progress of Scientific Bee Culture 710 



Convention Notes— 



Local Convention Directory 710 



Conventltm Notices \[] 710 



Southern CHliforniaConvention!!!!!!!!.',"! 7ii 



Northern Ohio Convention 711 



Inter-Bree.lini.' <>t Bees 712 



Utah Convention 713 



Selections from Our Letter Box— 



Sweet Clover Stillin Bloom 714 



Cowardly R.-es 7J4 



9!??„**!J^^'"®'^ poundsof Honey perColony 714 



Chilled Brood and Kobbing 714 



Peppermint to Prevent Stings 714 



Beesin Clamps 715 



Sweet Clover vet Alive with Bees!.'"!!!!!! 715 



Kntrance-regulating Bottom Board 715 



Planting Ba^swood Trees 715 



Troublesome Mice 715 



Will it P«y to use Sections ?!!".'.'.!'.*.'.'.**.'.CV.'. 715 



Honey Cmp fur IhS2 . 715 



My First Kxpi-ricnce ! 715 



Sundry Ouestions 715 



Candied Honey ".!!!!!!!!!'.*!!'.'. 715 



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P^ESl^^ 



Glutting the Honey Market. 



President J. E. Pleasants, at the 

 meeting of the Southern California 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, makes this 

 remark : " Tliere are now no more 

 fears of glutting the honey market ; 

 for the foreign demand is almost un- 

 limited. We have for years been 

 knocking at these foreign doors, and 

 now that they are opened, it rests with 

 us whether they shall remain so, or 

 not. We can here produce honey 

 which is tit for the gods, and only such 

 ought to be put upon the market." 



Mr. Pleasants is right— the markets 

 of the world are now open to us, and 

 will take all the honey that we can 

 produce— but it will be mainly ex- 

 tracted honey that will go abroad. 

 There is too much risk attending the 

 shipment of comb honey to foreign 

 ports for it ever to become a staple in 

 those markets. Hence, the necessity 

 of properly ripening extracted honey, 

 and putting it in convenient packages, 

 to suit the trade of the world. 



It is only a year ago that we said the 

 day would speedily come when agents 

 of the great metropolitan markets 

 would scour the country for honey, as 

 they do now for butter and eggs. 

 This is now an accomplished fact. 

 Agents from Xew York and Boston, 

 have, this fall, been sent to visit the 

 larger producers of honey, to buy their 

 crops at their very doors, and tons 

 upon tons have been so purchased this 

 very year. This does but presage the 

 coming demand, and clearly indicates 

 the fact that honey has become a 

 staple product. 



Just now the home markets are fully 

 supplied, but very soon the foreign 



demand will clean them out, and then 

 we may look for a more lively demand 

 and better prices. 



The Glucose Fraud.— In answer to a 

 query concerning glucose, the Chicago 

 Inter-Ocean says : 



"Glucose is essentially the same as 

 grape sugar, and glucose syrup is 

 nearly identical with pure strained 

 honey. It consists of 24 parts of carbon 

 to 28 each of hydrogen and oxygen, 

 whereas cane sugar contains the same 

 amount of carbon to only 22 parts each 

 of hydrogen and oxygen. It is manu- 

 factured from the starch in corn and 

 other grains, by the action of dilute 

 acids and alkalies, by a process too 

 technical to be described here. It is 

 not unwholesome, but does not possess 

 the same degree of sweetness as cane 

 sugar." 



In stating that commercial " glucose 

 syrup is nearly identical with pure 

 strained honey," the Inter-Ocean is 

 assisting a fraud, and winking at 

 adulteration. It is not honey, but a 

 fraudulent and poisonous adultera- 

 tion, prepared by the use of suphuric 

 acid, and should be avoided and 

 denounced by all honest persons. To 

 sell it for honey is a swindle upon the 

 purchaser, aided by the Inter-Ocean. 



Home Market.— The Pine Grove, Pa., 

 Herald, says that Mr. W. II. Stout, of 

 that town, has been very successful 

 with his bees this year, and that they 

 have gathered a large quantity of a 

 very superior quality of honey, that 

 he has sold readily at 2-5 cents per 

 pound in his home market. 



®" In answer to several inquiries 

 we will state that the American Bee 

 Keejyer, Lebanon, Mo., is the bee paper 

 we mentioned some time since,thatha3 

 issued no number since August. If 

 any have been published they have 

 not been received at this office, and it 

 is to be presumed that it also has 

 "ceased to exist." 



