THE Bt:E-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



Bee-Keepers' Review. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 



W. Z. HDTCHDiSON. Editor and ProDilelor. 



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FLINT. MICHIGAN, DEC. 10. 1896. 



Eight Extea Pages are given this month 

 that the index, extra advertisemeats of pa- 

 pers, etc., may not crowd the regular reading 

 matter. It also gives room for extra cuts 

 and helps to make a holiday number. By 

 the way, this is the first time that I have 

 made any extra effort to secure books, pa- 

 pers and other articles to offer at a low rate 

 in combination with the Review. I know 

 that the times are hard and many feel that 

 they cannot spare the dollar for the Review, 

 and I wish to make the burden as light as 

 possible. If there a^e any other journals or 

 papers, aside from those mentioned in my 

 clubbing list, that you would like to club 

 with the Review, please write to me about 

 it and I will make a rate on almost any 

 paper published. 



Honey Vinegab is one of the things that 

 were discussed at the recent meeting of the 

 Illinois State Bee- Keepers. It seems that 

 from one and one-half to three pounds of 

 honey to the gallon are needed in making 

 vinegar, all depending upon the strength 

 that is desired for the vinegar. A great deal 

 cheaper vinegar can be made than that 

 made from honey. A pickle manufacturer 

 told Dr. Miller that he could buy a vinegar, 

 suitable for his use, the keeping of pickles, 

 for two cents per gallon. Then there is 

 another side. A vinegar of fine flavor, that 

 comes from over the ocean, costs 60 cents a 

 gallon. In this matter of making fine vin- 

 egars with a delicious flavor it is quite like- 

 ly that honey could be used to good advan- 

 tage, as the vinegar would possess, to a 

 certain degree, the flavor of the honey from 

 which it was made. If the right man would 

 take hold of it it is quite likely that a fine 

 business could be worked up by making 

 fancy vinegars from honey for the fancy 



grocery trade. I have often thought that 1 

 should like to engage in this very business, 

 but then a man can't do everything. There 

 is no doubt, however, that there is a good 

 opening here for the right man. 



Gkanulated Honey was another topic 

 that came up for discussion at the Illinois 

 meeting of bee-keepers. The question 

 arose as to whether it should be put upon 

 the market, and the answer was that it was 

 all right where customers were educated to 

 the buying and using of honey in that shape. 

 Where customers are unacquainted with 

 honey in this form it may be less trouble 

 to keep it in the liquid form by taking back 

 from dealers all that granulates and re- 

 placing it with that that has been liquefied. 

 The heating of it to such a degree that it 

 would remain liquid was not approved, as it 

 was quite likely to injure the flavor. I be- 

 1 eve, however, that this has been done with- 

 out injuring the flavor to any great extent. 

 Mr. McKnight, of Canada, puts up his hon- 

 ey in this way. 



BE LENIENT. 



During the past year and a half I have had 

 to bear heavier burdens than I ever before 

 had borne. As most of my readers know, 

 wife and I took care of our daughter, Ivy, 

 all of the fall and winter of 1895 when she 

 really ought to have been cared for in some 

 institution devoted to .ihe treatment of 

 those suffering from mental or nervous dis- 

 eases. It was a mistake not to have taken 

 her there. At least it seems so now, as the 

 terrible strain upon the dear wife has been 

 too great. All of last summer Ivy was bet- 

 ter, but last fall she became so bad that we 

 were compelled to send her away. As I have 

 mentioned once or twice before in the Re- 

 view, Mrs. Htuchinson was not well all of 

 last summer, and about two weeks ago she, 

 too, became so bad that she had to be sent 

 away for treatment. I don't approve of 

 parading one's troubles before the world, 

 and my object in mentioning this matter is 

 that my friends will be lenient in their 

 judgement of the Review. I know that for 

 the past year the Review has not been all 

 that I would like to have it. As I look back 

 over the past months, my only wonder is that 

 I have gotten it out at all. Until these troub- 

 les came I had the bright brain and nimble 



