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NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



as clearly desirable in that mushy 

 state, it would be an advantage. 



Mr. Brown — I have one hope that 

 Mr. Scholl and Mr. Wilder and those 

 people who work for comb honey will 

 succeed in getting other bee-keepers to 

 follow their example, and, for one rea- 

 son, to save our basswood. The enor- 

 mous quantities of basswood cut 

 down, it seems to me, that bee-keepers 

 use, ought to be changed or stopped 

 in some way. 



Mr. Dadant — Don't you think one 

 reason why this chunk honey is in such 

 general favor in the South is that it 

 resembles so closely the natural honey 

 cut from the bee-trees? In the South 

 there are many more bee-trees than 

 here, and the people down there are used 

 to seeing the mussed-up honey, as you 

 call it, and when they see this honey, 

 it is a sort of an assurance to them 

 it is a pure article. That is the wa5 

 they are used to having it. It looks 

 to them like the pure article. 



Mrs. Holbrook — One fact I gathered 

 last fall from across the lake — a man 

 has about fifty colonies and produces 

 all of his honey in chunks, and I saw 

 it in the grocery stores, right out on 

 an open plate, and they tell me it sells 

 very rapidly. It was on a tray there 

 in a grocery store. 



Mr. Baxter — What is the gentleman's 

 objection to foundation in chunk 

 honey? 



Mr. Burnett — The objection would be, 

 it is more difficult to dissolve, and it 

 dissolves with less ease. The wax as 

 prepared by the bees seems to dissolve 

 with much more ease than the foun- 

 dation which is prepared. 



Mr. Baxter — Well, the foundation is 

 used in the comb honey and it is not 

 objectionable there, and I should not 

 think it would be any more objjection- 

 able in the chunk honey. 



Mr. Burnett — It is objectionable ev- 

 erywhere, if you can get along with- 

 out it. 



Mr. Baxter — Even natural comb is 

 objectionable to me. 



Mr. Huffman — Isn't it a fact that 

 honey built on foundation is a little 

 tougher? The process it goes through 

 makes the wax tougher than if it is 

 right direct from the bee. I think 

 Mr. Dadant is correct, and I think you 

 will find that is where the trouble 

 Is with the process; all of this wax 

 goes through in the foundation makes 

 it tougher. 



President York — You mean Mr. Bur- 

 nett was right, don't you? 



Mr. Huffman — Yes. 



Mr. Cavanagh — I don't think that is 

 objectionable to every one. I know it 

 is not to me. I rather like to get that 

 chewy foundation. 



President York — Whenever I get a 

 chance to "get back" at Dr. Miller I 

 like to do it. He criticized me for us- 

 ing the word "chunk," said I ought to 

 use "bulk." And that man used 

 "chunk" all through his article, and he 

 has sixteen apiaries! (Laughter.) 



Dr. Miller — Where does he live? 



President York — In Georgia — in the 

 South. 



Dr. Miller — I said the Texas people. 

 A Mr. Hyde, more particularly. He be- 

 lieved — if you remember — he believed 

 in "boolk" honey! 



Aroma of Extracted Honey. 



"Is it possible to get the delicate 

 aroma found in comb honey, after it 

 goes through the extractor?" 



President York — How about that, or 

 is extracted honey as good as comb 

 honey? In other words, does it have 

 the delicate aroma or flavor that comb 

 honey does? 



Dr. Miller — I don't believe that ex- 

 tracted honey, as it averages, begins 

 to compare, in quality, with comb 

 • honey. I don't believe there is any 

 sufficient reason that extracted honey 

 ought not to be as good as comb honey, 

 and I believe the men who are produc- 

 ing extracted honey, if they know their 

 business, they will try very hard to 

 make it so we cannot tell any differ- 

 ence in the taste between extracted 

 and comb honey. I think you will all 

 bear me out that there has been some 

 very vile extracted honey on the market. 

 Mr. Burnett will say that, I am very 

 sure. Worse than anything you will 

 find in the line of comb honey, which 

 is because you can abuse extracted 

 honey, as you cannot abuse comb 

 honey, and leave it still comb honey. 

 There is a chance for the air to work 

 on the extracted honey; there is a 

 chance to have unripened honey — ex- 

 tracted when it is unripe; you cannot 

 get it in as unripe a condition" as you 

 can in the extracted honey. So you see, 

 it depends upon Which way yon 

 are looking at the question. If you 

 are looking at what may or what can 

 be, that is one thing; if you arex look- 

 ing at what is, that is another thing. 



