482 HONEY HANDLING. , 
ember. We speak of honey harvested in the Mississippi 
valley; such as clover, basswood, knot-weed, golden rod, 
buckwheat, Spanish-needle, ete. 
831. Of California honey, we can say nothing, having 
never handled it. But we have handled Louisiana honey, 
which, we were told, would not granulate before a year, and 
we had scarcely hadit three weeks in our cold climate, before 
it began to granulate. The only ripe honey which did not 
granulate, was a lot of Spanish-needle honey, which had 
been extracted late in November. It remained liquid until 
sold, a month or two later, and we ascribed its not granu- 
lating to the late harvesting of it. 
832. Every bee-keeper has noticed that, at times, honey 
hardens in very coarse and irregular granules, that look like 
lumps of sugar, and have no adherence with one another, 
with a small amount of liquid honey interposed between 
them; and that at other times, the candying is compact, 
and can be compared to the hardening of lard. 
The first kind of granulation is always produced in honey 
harvested, like clover or basswood, during the warm months 
of the year; while the soft candying is prevalent in the 
honey extracted inthe Fall. In France, coarsely granulated 
honey is held as less valuable than the: fine grained honey, 
and there is a good reason for this preference, for the, 
coarsely granulated honey cannot be kept as well as the fine 
grained. 
In this country also, coarsely granulated honey sells with 
less facility—especially because many ignorant persons 
imagine that it has been adulterated with sugar, and that 
the coarse grains are lumps of sugar. 
We think that this coarse’ granulation is the result of 
an aggregation of particles, which, having an affinity for 
each other, unite, while the honey remains liquid in Sum- 
mer. 
In such honey, the liquid parts come to the surface, and 
