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SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



one day, and slept that night under 

 a catclaw tree. The next morning, 

 when I woke, the first thing I noticed 

 the bees were gathering honey from this 

 brush. By 12 o'clock the temperature 

 was warm and the honey was candied. 

 It candies every 24 hours in August 

 over there. 



J. M. Hagood — I think sudden changes 

 of the weather are the causes. If 

 we all had cellars to store our honey 

 in, I don't believe we would be bothered 

 with granulation so soon. 



Pres. Dadant — I personally have no 

 objection to this. My experience is that 

 early honey granulates before the fall 

 honey is gathered; it is something in 

 the time in which it is gathered, or the 

 quality. 



J. A. Stone — I want to offer an ob- 

 jection to the cellar; it will cause fer- 

 mentation of the honey. If you had a 

 furnace it will keep it all right; you 

 want a warm place. 



Mr. Teel — The cellar won't work in 

 the South. 



D. C. Milam — I wish to say from ex- 

 perience, that the waheah granulates 

 quicker than the catclaw. I have ex- 

 tracted honey in the evening and next 

 morning it would be granulated. Cat- 

 claw blooms in May, and its honey hard- 

 ly ever granulates until some time af- 

 terwards. In regard to fall honey, 1 

 have also extracted fall honey from 

 broomweed, and the next morning it 

 would be granulated, and would not 

 run; so the fall and spring honey granu- 

 lates alike ; but in warm weather it will 

 not granulate as quickly as it does in the 

 fall. 



Pres. Dadant — In our climate the 

 early honey granulates and the fall 

 honey remains liquid. 



Mr. Jones — I am from Uvalde County, 

 Texas, and I agree with Mr. Milam. 

 Our waheah honey granulates much 

 quicker that catclaw. Now, our fall 

 honey granulates very quickly, and is 

 thick. This is my experience. 



Dr. Bohrer — What do you do to turn 

 it? 



Mr. Jones — Nothing, only to heat it. 

 As this man stated awhile ago about 

 unripe honey, it granulates on the bot- 

 tom, but it never granulates on the top; 

 you will always find the granulation 

 at the bottom. 



Mr. Parsons — We produce very little 

 extracted honey, but we pack our honey 

 somewhat like the Texas bee-keepers. 



that is, a portion of it, that which will 

 not injure the comb honey that will do 

 to case, and ship it. We put that into 

 tin boxes and extract a portion of it. 

 I first fill the vessel full of the comb, 

 then pour around it the extracted honey, 

 and where I can put that honey into the 

 cans and seal them as soon as it comes 

 off the hives it does not granulate un- 

 til the next year, piobably late in the 

 spring or the summer. If I wait un- 

 til cold weather comes, along at this 

 season of the year, to put it up, then 

 by next spring it is almost a solid 

 granulation; and it does not granulate 

 that year if i pay proper atention to 

 it, and by proper attention I mean keep 

 it dry. I do that by building charcoal 

 fires in my honey-room at intervals, ow- 

 ing to the state of the weather. If 

 the weather should be damp and foggy 

 I then go to the honey-house, build up 

 a fire and keep it there until the house 

 is dried out; but if, from any cause, 

 I neglect it, then it granulates in the 

 comb, and I think probably that would 

 help out in almost every instance. If 

 you will keep the temperature from 

 getting down too low, or getting damp, 

 it will do away with a good deal of the 

 granulation. 



Dr. Treon — I want to ask a little in- 

 formation and at the same time make 

 some statements. The way I put up 

 honey in this part of Texas, to prevent 

 granulation of our catclaw honey, which 

 is our first crop, I heat my extractor. 

 We produce chunk honey; we fill the 

 can partially full of comb honey; then 

 pour in the extracted honey, then fill 

 the can clear full. We cannot fill it 

 full of chunk honey. With reference 

 to granulation, I have had catclaw 

 honey that will granulate in the spring 

 and stay that way all the fall. What 

 I wanted to ask was this: About 3 

 years ago we had a good honey-flow 

 in this country — the majority of it was 

 horsemint hon«y; we had lots of rain. 

 This honey was sealed up and under- 

 went a fermenting process, and the 

 seals burst. I would like some one 

 to explain this. In two or three weeks 

 the honey would sour in the can. 



Mr. Hyde — I didn't make myself 

 quite plain when talking awhile ago. I 

 never designated the different kinds of 

 honey. Our chunk honey will granulate 

 just as quickly as pure extracted honey, 

 but our one-pound section honey will 

 not granulate during the first winter. 



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