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VOL, IX, FLINT, MICHIGAN, APRIL 10, 1896. NO. 4. 



Work at ]VCicliigaii's 



Experimental 



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B. L. TAYLOR, APIAEIST. 

 HEAT AND HONEY AGAIN. 



TN my first ex- 

 X periment made 

 to determine the 

 temperature at 

 which honey is 

 liable to receive 

 injury in reduc- 

 ing it from a 

 candied to a liq- 

 uid stale, the 

 sample used, 

 from lack of any 

 other, was in the 

 comb. It having been made a question 

 whether the wax contained in the comb did 

 not have some agency in hastening the 

 change in the quality of the honey, I deter- 

 mined to secure other samples and repeat 

 the experiment. 



In pursuance of this determination I suc- 

 ceeded in securing two samples of extracted 

 honey in a candied condition, one having 

 alfalfa as its source and the other the great 

 willow herb. It is necessary to point out 

 for the benefit of those who are not ac- 

 quainted with these honeys that they are 

 both of a very light color, that from the 



willow herb being almost as light in color 

 as clear water, and that from alfalfa, I judge 

 from the few samples I have heretofore had 

 the privilege of examining, varying but 

 slightly from that. As a third sample to be 

 used in this experiment I took honey candied 

 in the comb of partially filled sections as 

 in my first experiment, and from the same 

 lot but by selection composed more largely 

 of basswood honey, so that there was little 

 if any admixture of any from any other 

 source. There might have been a small 

 proportion from clover. During the entire 

 process of heating, the wax from the comb 

 containing the honey in this sample was 

 allowed to remain with the honey in the 

 treating vessel. 



The details of the process in this experi- 

 ment varied somewhat from those of the 

 other one. The vessels containing the hon- 

 ey were much smaller and of tin instead of 

 earthern-ware, as in the former case, and 

 they were set in the water, for heating, 

 upon brick instead of small pieces of coal. 

 As before, the process was carefully watch- 

 ed and the temperature was raised very 

 gradually, two and a half hours being con- 

 sumed in raising the temperature of the 

 honeys to 14.')% and upward of three hours 

 more before 194 was reached. The portions 

 of honey taken out from time to time for 

 the purpose of comparison to determine the 

 effect of different degrees of heat were re- 

 moved at about equal intervals of time. All 

 the samples were heated at the same time in 

 the samet bath and under like conditions 



