ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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sensible business man. I have been 

 on this Chicago market for twenty 

 years, and the Chicago people cannot 

 learn that granulated honey is good. 

 Out of thousands of customers I have 

 three or four that want granulated 

 honey. Yesterday a man told me 

 about the honey getting thick and 

 spoiling — some I had sold him. They 

 cannot learn. You have to do what 

 they want and charge them enough 

 for what they want. 



Mr. Stuebing: I believe the handling 

 has nothing to do with it. I took 

 comb honey out, and in about thrfte 

 weeks the honey commenced candying, 

 and after four or five weeks it was 

 harder than a brick. 



Dr. Miller: Mr. Whitney must go 

 a little farther with his statement. H3 

 said he had discovered that comb 

 honey could be kept, and then, as the 

 character of the man is, he sat down 

 and didn't explain to us! "We want to 

 know what that was he discovered, 

 whether he discavered there was somo 

 way by which he could have comb 

 honey continue without granulating 

 and without cracking. 



Mr. Whitney: I discovered the fact, 

 but why it was "I didn't know." 



Dr. Miller: If I understand it, he 

 discovered that we are all mistaken 

 in thinking that the freezing of comb 

 honey will hurt it; and I want to say 

 here and now that our young (?) 

 friend is mistaken in that, that it will 

 hurt it most emphatically, and your 

 exception in that case doesn't prove 

 anything at all. 



Mr. Whitney: I didn't say the hon- 

 ey was frozen. I said it was not 

 granulated. 



Mr. YsT'ilcox: But you said it was 

 kept in an out-building during win- 

 ter. 



Mr. Whitney: I have taken a two- 

 quart jar of extracted honey, put it 

 in an Ice-box, and kept it there for 

 weeks trying to granulate it, and it 

 did not granulate at all. It was sim- 

 ply so cold that the particles of honey 

 did not move among themselves, re- 

 mained quiet, and it did not granu- 

 late, and I suppose that was the rea- 

 son this honey did not granulate, 

 perhaps, in the cold In the honey- 

 house — whether it is correct or not I 

 don't know. But in regard to extract- 

 ed honey, I had some extracted honey 

 that was frozen up quickly; I have 

 got isome of it now; it is two years old. 

 I wish I had brought a little jar of it 



here. It is just as soft as ice cream; 

 it isn't hard at all. It was frozen 

 quickly. When honey is in that con- 

 dition, and treated in that way, when 

 it granulates it will granulate very 

 line grain, and if you once freeze it 

 that way I don't think you can gran- 

 ulate it any more. 



President York: Mr. Whitney says 

 "as soft as ice cream." I have seen 

 it as hard as ice. 



Mr. Whitney: It will pour. I have 

 some of it in my room and take a tea- 

 spoonful every night. 



Mr. Baxter: I don't believe you 

 can granulate honey while under freez- 

 ing weather, but after it has been re- 

 moved from that freezing weather and 

 thaws out it will granulate very rap- 

 idly. As to whether you had better 

 take back comb honey — yes. Comb 

 honey sold in the granulated condi- 

 tion is not marketable. But as to gran- 

 ulated honey, I should like to see you 

 try to sell liquid honey where I live. 

 If they had some liquified honey from 

 Chicago they would gladly exchange 

 it for some of the granulated honey 

 there if they could get it. Down there 

 they want honey granulated, but not 

 comb honey. 



Dr. Miller: I want to interrupt Mr. 

 Baxter to give him an answer, perhaps, 

 to another question. He has said that 

 the frozen comb honey will granulate 

 after it thaws out. 



Mr. Baxter: After it thaws out.V,^ 

 Dr. Miller: Now the cracking, will 

 that occur while it is frozen, or after- 

 ward ? 



Mr. Baxter: I would not positively 

 • answer that. I think it cracks during 

 freezing. That is my recollection. I- 

 don't have much more to do with comb 

 honey. I have got out of that business 

 largely: but I produce some every year 

 in a small way, and I know it will not 

 granulate as long as it is frozen, and 

 I know the same of the extracted 

 honey. It will not granulate under 

 freezing temperature. The moving of 

 the honey will not granulate it, but the 

 moving of the honey while it is gran- 

 ulating will make large, coarse grains 

 in the honey; move it often while it is 

 granulating, and it will make large 

 grains. If it is in a barrel, move it 

 around, or if in a can, stir it. 



Mr. Wilcox: A few years .ago I 

 produced comb honey exclusively and 

 largelj', and it would always freeze 

 in the winter if I did not take it into 

 a warm place, and where it did freeze 



