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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Feb. U, 



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In the multitude of counsellors there is 

 safety.— ProT. 11-14. 



Do Old, Dark - Colored Combs 

 Afreet the Honey ? 



Query 958.— Suppose I hive two swarms 

 -of bees In the spring— one on foundation and 

 the other on old. dark-colored combs— will 

 there be any difference, either in color or 

 flavor, of the extracted honey in the fall ? In 

 other words, do old. dark-colored combs affect 

 the honey either in color or flavor ?— J. P. S. 



R. L. Taylor— No, no. 



J. A. Green — Very little. 



Chas. Dadant <& Son. — No. 



Eugene Secor — There will be no dif- 

 ference. 



G. M. Doolittle — Not that I could ever 

 ^liscover. 



Mrs. Jennie Atchloy — No, not at all 

 that I can see. 



P. H. Elwood — If the combs are clean, 

 I have observed no difference. 



Jas. A. Stone — I never have e,\tracted 

 from dark comb, and cannot^say. 



E. France — If the old comb's are clean, 

 I don't think the honey v?ill be darker. 



Dr. J. P. H. Brown — They render the 

 honey darker, and detract from Its 

 flavor. 



H. D. Cutting — I have extracted very 

 fine honey in color and flavor from old 

 •combs. 



B. Taylor — I believe not, provided the 

 old combs are free from dark honey to 

 start with. 



J. E. Pond — I find no difference, in my 

 experience. It is far different with sur- 

 plus comb honey. 



Rev. M. Mahin — I have never been 

 able to detect any difference in either 

 color or flavor between honey stored in 

 ■old and in new combs. 



Prof. A. J. Cook — Not the extracted 

 honey. If comb honey is placed in 

 combs formed close to old black comb, 

 the comb will be darker. 



G. W. Demaree — The age of the 

 combs, if they are sound and well pre- 

 served, never affects the color or quality 

 of my honey, taken with the extractor. 



C. H. Dibbern— I have never watched 

 this very closely, but I think the honey 

 in the comb built from foundation will 

 be the lightest colored and finest flavored. 



Rev. Emerson T. Abbott — I am not 

 sure about it, but I do not think the 

 combs would make any difference, if 

 they have not had brood reared in them. 

 I prefer not to extract from combs in 

 which brood has been reared for a long 

 time. 



Wm. M. Barnum — I have never de 

 tected any taint or flavor coming from 

 old combs. This answer does not con- 

 template combs that have been affected 

 with foul brood or mold, however. I 

 prefer combs two to five years old. They 

 are stronger. 



Mrs. L. Harrison — I have never no- 

 ticed any difference in flavor, but I have 

 in color. One year, in order to take ex- 

 tracted honey to the Illinois State Fair, 

 I extracted none except from the whitest 

 comb. Some of the exhibitors thought 

 there was some trick about it, because 



it was much lighter than theirs. If 

 there was a small quantity of off color, 

 I rejected it, and used only the new, 

 whitest comb. 



Dr. C. C. Miller— I've had beautiful, 

 white, fine-flavored honey from very 

 black combs, and yet, if the darkening 

 of combs is by deposition of outside 

 matter, it's just possible such matter is 

 soluble to a slight extent in honey, 

 changing its color and flavor. 



W. G. Larrabee — If old, dark-colored 

 combs are clean and sweet, having been 

 used for extracting entirely for several 

 years, they will not affect the honey ; 

 but if taken from some colony that has 

 winter-killed, and left full of dead bees 

 or brood, it is liable to affect the honey 

 in color and flavor. 



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