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than there is with these. When you 

 ask the question, "Are you perfectly 

 safe?" I would say, "No, of course not," 

 because there is nothing that goes ex- 

 actly right; but yet I think that they 

 are tolerably good in a good honey- 

 flow. In a very poor honey-flow, they 

 are good for nothing. 



President York: The question Dr. 

 Miller wanted to ask was, how many 

 had used the fence separators and 

 found corrugations on the honey -comb. 



Dr. Miller: There are two classes, 

 one has used the fences and found the 

 surface objectionable, and some liave 

 not. 



President York: How many have 

 used the fence separators and found 

 them objectionable on account of the 

 corrugations on the comb? Four. 



President York: How many have 

 used them and not found them objec- 

 tionable? Thirteen. 



Mr. Taylor: May be some don't 

 count the corrugations objectionable. 



Mr. Kimmey: I would like to ask 

 Dr. Miller if the corrugations are of 

 such magnitude that you couldn't help 

 but notice them. May be some of 

 them have not looked closely enough. 



Mr. Macklin: With regard to the 

 use of separators, I bought 683 pounds 

 of honey from one bee-keeper who put 

 up his honey without separators. I 

 bought it subject to crating, what I 

 could crate I would pay for, and what 

 I couldn't crate I would send back. 341 

 pounds went back as being uncratable. 



Mr. Taylor: How many went? 



Mr. Macklin: The difference be- 

 tween 341 and 683. 



Paste for Labeling on Tin. 



"What is the best paste to stick 

 labels to friction-top tin pails? How 

 is it made?" 



Mr. Dadant: Simply make flour 

 paste. Take water, let it get hot 

 on the stove, put flour in it and keep 

 stirring it on the stove until you have 

 the paste thick enough, and you will 

 never have any trouble. Not starch, 

 but flour, common flour. 



Dr. Miller: Rye or wheat flour? 



Mr. Dadant: We use wheat flour. 

 Perhaps if we had rye, we would try 

 the rye. 



Mr. Taylor: I suppose a good many 

 fasten the slats in the bottom of cases 

 with that. How are slats fastened in 



the bottom of shipping cases? How 

 many fasten them in with paste? 

 Pres. York: Raise the hands. None. 



Mr. Taylor: How many nail the 

 slats to the bottom of the shipping 

 cases? (Four.) I would put them in 

 with paste. It is very much easier and 

 very much more effective — such paste 

 as Mr. Dadant has described. 



Mr. Dadant: In "order that the paste 

 will not mold if you keep it for a while 

 without using it, and in order that the 

 mice won't gnaw it off the faces of the 

 tin cans, we use a little alum liquefied 

 in the water when you make the paste, 

 and it will keep the paste fresh much 

 longer. We have kept it three or foar 

 weeks, until it became so dry w^e 

 couldn't use it. 



Pres. York: How do you apply it? 



Mr. Taylor: Just put the alum in 

 the water and melt it. 



Pres. York: How much alum to a 

 gallon of paste? 

 ^Mr. Taylor: O, excuse me! 



Dr. Miller: A little carbolic acid is 

 just as good. 



Honey Souring in Summer Heat. 



"Will extracted honey sour in sum- 

 mer heat, about 95 degrees?" 



Mr. Macklin: It depends upon the 

 honey. 



Mr. Baxter: It depends upon where 

 it is kept. 



Orange Honey. 



"Do bees gather honey in such quan- 

 tities from orange blossoms as to war- 

 rant a bottler in labeling his honey 

 "Pure Orange Honey"?" 



Mr. Whitney: I have a bottle of 

 honey that I bought at a grocer's 

 labeled "Orange Blossom Brand" honey, 

 and it is beginning now to granulate a 

 little. What that means I don't know. 

 Whether it is proper to be considered 

 now under the question, I don't know. 



Mr. Taylor: It means the name of 

 the brand and the quality of the honey. 



Mr. Whitney: I was wondering 

 whether under the Pure Food Law that 

 was a proper brand for honey. It is 

 put out as "Orange Honey." 



Dr. Miller: I suspect the pith of 

 that question is to find out whether 

 bees gather enough from orange blos- 

 soms to warrant any one in saying he 

 has orange honey. Years ago that label 



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