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per cwt. more than the best beet cubes, but the latter will 
be found quite suitable for bee-feeding. Cane sugar is so 
marked or described, when offered in cases or bags, and 
that which ts not so branded zs beet sugar. 
It is more difficult to distinguish between the moist 
sugars, except that the beets are less sweet, and bees will 
not touch these inferior grades either as syrup or when 
offered dry. It is these low grades of “refined sugar 
only,” which give many jams that dark muddy appearance, 
It may not be generally known that good moist sugars 
make the softest cakes; while of course honey is still 
better in that respect. 
Fine crystallized sugar, whether from cane or beets, is 
unsuitable for making syrup, while the buyer in procuring 
such has no guarantee that he is obtaining cane sugar. 
Although chemists find that sugar-syrup is converted 
by the bees into what is practically honey—by certain 
manipulation and additions—making it a correct food for 
sustaining insect life; it does not by any means follow 
that sugar-fed honey is to be, or can be sold as flower 
honey. 
Original cane sugar as expressed from the plant, is a 
perfect life sustaining food in itself, but the refining 
processes eradicate the color and primary odor, which the 
bees cannot replace. 
