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it expanded from the end that cracked, 

 and remained open just so much until 

 it thawed, and it did not granulate un- 

 til it thawed out and the crack closed 

 or began to close, and in a little time 

 after that it began to granulate; and 

 if it cracked from corner to corner, as 

 it often did, it would granulate along 

 that crack one or two rows of cells 

 and no more. It won't granulate any 

 more than where it is cracked to admit 

 the air through the capping. 



Mr. Dadant: I see we have drifted 

 from whether we should exchange 

 granulated honey, to the causes of 

 granulation. I wish to say that I don't 

 believe that all honey granulates alike. 

 European bee-keepers would tell you, 

 if they were here, that it sometimes 

 granulates in the hives within three or 

 four weeks after it is harvested. That 

 is something that says we must not be 

 too sure of anything. "We wilL have 

 some honey that will granulate, and 

 some side by side that will not granu- 

 late. The quality of the honey, the 

 kind of blossom, all have something to 

 do with the granulation or lack of 

 granulation. 



Dr. Bohrer: It occurs to me that 

 the terms of the contract would have 

 something to do with it. If I were 

 going to sell a large amount of honey 

 and it was' granulated, I would so in- 

 form my customer. If he was a shrewd 

 business man, he would ask me 

 whether it was granulated or not, and 

 if I told him the truth, whether it was 

 granulated or not, that should cover 

 the ground as to whether I should take 

 it back or not — the terms of the con- 

 tract. 



Mr. Kluck: What little honey I 

 produce is alniost all in the extracted 

 form. In the winter time, all the 

 honey I sell is sold in the granulated 

 form. The customers I have, I edu- 

 cate, and teach them how to reliquefy 

 it. I have had a few customers that 

 wanted me to take it back, and those 

 few customers I would sooner lose 

 than keep, they are so few. All the 

 extracted honey I sell in the winter 

 time is in the granulated form, and if 

 they want it in the liquid form, they 

 reliquefy it themselves, because I tell 

 them how to do it, and I should prefer 

 to educate them rather than to do it 

 myself. 



Mr. Baxter: I don't believe that is 

 a good business principle. You should 

 try to please your customers. If a 

 cu.stomer came to me, and I sold honey 



to him in the liquid form and it granu- 

 lated, and ^enfound he could not sell 

 that honeyVeven though I had toM him 

 it would ^anulate, it would be to my 

 interest to take it back and reliquefy 

 it, so as to please him. You should 

 please your customers so as to make as 

 large sales as possible. 



Mr. Moore: You are absolutely in 

 the hands of your customers if you 

 projKJse to hold them as customers, and 

 I have taken back thousands of bottles 

 from Chicago grocers. Where you; are 

 going over the ground time and time 

 again, it is not much trouble to take 

 it back, and you can reliquefy hun- 

 dreds of bottles more easily than the 

 grocer can reliquefy one or two. I 

 have seen grocers whose sales were 

 stopped by two or three bottles of can- 

 died honey. It is to your interest to 

 take them back and give them' liquid, 

 and it will sell. 



How Bees Ripen Honey. 



"How do the bees ripen their honey?" 

 Dr. Miller: I don't know. 



Mr. Wilcox: I must say I don't 

 know, but I would like to learn. I want - 

 to know because I have read several 

 times that bees took their honey and 

 ripened it after it was stored in the 

 hive. I have heard statements that 

 they did it before they stored it in the 

 hive, but I don't believe that. I want 

 to know whether they re-take their 

 honey into their honey sacs, and by 

 that process they ripen it and re-de- 

 posit it; or whether it is simply a 

 matter of evaporation by some process 

 of the bees after it is deposited in the , 

 cell. I have some theories on the sub- 

 ject, but they are only theories. 



Mr. Kimmey: I am going to say 

 something, although others know more. 

 When I go through my bees in a sum- 

 mer evening, I shake the comb down, 

 and, cover the ground or whatever is 

 there with a thin liquid which I shake 

 out, which is not the honey I find there 

 two or three days after. I believe the 

 bees bring the nectar, throw it in the 

 hive and go out after another load. I 

 believe other bees take it into their 

 organization and the ripening goes on i 

 there. Then after they take it out of 

 their organization there is the natural ; 

 evaporation from the honey, which oc- 

 curs in everything I know of that gets 

 wet. 



Dr. Miller: I think the answer to 

 that question will be a hybrid one! A. , 



