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EIGHTH ANNUAL, REPORT OF THE 



I have never seen the words "Orange 

 Honey," and it is reserved to the syrup 

 company to be the first one to discover 

 "rose honey." There probably is not 

 any, only in their imagination. But I 

 want to say that it is strictly true if 

 you would call rose honey apple honey, 

 for the blossoms that come from pears, 

 apples or peaches is rosacea botanical- 

 ly they all belong to the rosacea or 

 rose family. Possibly, botanically, 

 there is such a thing as rose honey, 

 because botanically all these blossoms 

 are rosacea, although I don't believe 

 that sage, taking Mr. Tork's sugges- 

 tion, is of the rose family. 



President York: It Is guaranteed to 

 comply with the pure food law of June 

 30, 1906., 



Dr. Miller: They may comply with 

 the pure food law and put a lot of 

 things in, so long as they tell what it 

 is. 



Mr. Todd: Oregon has very large 

 orchards, such as we dream about but 

 don't often see, and one bee-keeper 

 told me that sometimes he got a super 

 of honey from the apple and pear tree 

 bloom. That is the only place where 

 I ever heard of apple or pear blossom 

 honey. 



Mr. Wheeler: There is quite a lot of 

 bad honey being brought into Chicago 

 at the present time. You will flind it 

 in the department stores. It is being 

 shipped around here. It has a pretty 

 picture on it and an attractive label, 

 and I think the vicinity of Chicago is 

 affected quite a little. It is qiuite a 

 vital question whether this is sold as 

 pure honey and whether the label is 

 correct or not. 



Dr. Bohrer: Does the label say it is 

 pure honey? 



President York: The guarantee I 

 read you. 



Dr. Miller: I don't want to appear 

 antagonistic, but I hardly like to allow 

 to pass unnoticed what Mr. Moore says. 

 The fact, I think, is that sometimes 

 apple honey, fairly pure apple honey, 

 has been gathered and stored, but there 

 is no sort of common sense that will 

 allow that to be called rose honey, 

 begging Mr. Moore's pardon, although 

 it belongs to the rosacea family. In 

 the common sense of the term an apple 

 is not a rose. The fact that you can 

 go back to the botanic name will not 

 do at all. You cannot class white clover 

 and blue bees together because — 



Mr. Todd: Can you white bees? 



Dr. Miller: Possibly. I won't be too 

 persistent. Because they both belong 

 to that class, you cannot name them 

 together the same. Rose honey should 

 be from the rose itself, not from some 

 near relative, not from sage or any- 

 thing else. 



Mr. Kimmey: I am not quite clear 

 in my own mind. I don't know much 

 about bees nor much about honey, but 

 I can't tell when my bees are getting 

 honey or not getting honey from blos- 

 soms, and I have never been able to 

 determine clearly in my own mind 

 just where the honey I get comes 

 from. We have in our vicinity (Mor- 

 gan Park, 111.) and in the northern part 

 of this State, pretty much alike — ^we 

 have a lot of golden-rod in the fall. 

 Some two or three years ago when that 

 was in bloom, commencing the latter 

 part of August or. the first of Septem- 

 ber, or maybe the middle of August, 

 there was a great bloom of golden- 

 rod, and the blossoms of the plants 

 were literally covered, when I looked 

 them over, with swarms of bees, ap- 

 parently gathering honey, and I 

 thought they were gathering honey. 

 I got a lot of honey that year that was 

 a dark color, and not very good honey. 

 In conversation with Dr. Miller he said 

 the bees never got any honey from the 

 golden-rod. That is true, is it not? 



Dr. Miller: Nothing to speak of. 



Mr. Kimmey: This last year has 

 been the greatest honey year, and I 

 watched my bees closely. In the first 

 of the year the honey was a yellow 

 honey, a delicious honey. I thought it 

 was from the clover, but I couldn't 

 see them getting it. I suspect it was 

 from the great number of catalpa trees 

 in Morgan Park. When the white 

 clover came in; — and we have never 

 had such a white clover season — ^I did 

 not find any bees on the white clover; 

 and then there was sweet clover, and 

 I found the bees on the sweet clover. 

 I cannot tell when the white clover was 

 in the height of bloom, nor when the 

 sweet clover season came on. When 

 a 'man labels "honey^' and says this is 

 so and so he is taking a great many 

 risks. I had a discussion last fall as 

 to where Dr. Miller got his white 

 clover honey last, year, whether he got 

 it from Spanish needles or where he 

 got it. I should hate to say what it is. 

 I don't tag my bees. I have to go out 

 and guess at them. I have seen some 

 on wild roses, but from what I watched 



