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THE AUSTRALIAN BEEKEEPERS’ JOURNAL. 
from a boiler cannot do better than put such 
hives inside a larger box with a few holes in 
the bottom, and give them a good cleansing 
with hot steam, which, entering all the 
crevices with a high temperature, destroys all 
germs of disease. 
MANUFACTURED HONEY IN 
MELBOURNE. 
At the Meeting of the Victoria Beekeepers’ 
Association, on the 28tli May, samples of a 
material in bottles and labelled Pure Garden 
Honey from Orange Flowers, purchased from 
storekeepers in M elbourne, and with a brand 
of a local manufacturer on it, was submitted 
to the members as a specimen of how clever 
people are now in manufacturing imitations 
of natural products. It was at once pro- 
nounced by members present as a material 
made up of glucose and sugar with possibly 
a small percentage of honey, and flavoured 
with a trace of oil of orange flower. It was 
stated that tons of this was on the market and 
a resolution was passed that steps should be 
immediately taken to expose this fraudulent 
practice, and it was arranged to obtain analyses 
of the samples purchased to prove beyond any 
doubt the fact of their being manufactured 
imitations. By reference to the proceedings 
of the Association our readers will see what 
transpired ax the meeting, and among our 
correspondence in the present number will be 
found a letter signed “Tasman” on the same 
subject. 
The imitation honey has been largely manu- 
factured in both America and England, but 
the Governments have by repeatedand vigorous 
prosecutions put a stop to such a nefarious 
practice. 
The imitation honey, although not markedly 
injurious to the consumer, can scarcely be 
regarded as a wholesome food when compared 
with pure honey, and is undoubtedly worse in 
comparison with it than bntterine is to butter. 
The chief fraud on the public is labelling it 
Pure Garden Honey, and we sincerely trust the 
Association will be able to thoroughly expose 
it, tor it has a most injurious effect on what is 
now becoming an important industry for our 
country people. 
It is a great pity people do not know more 
about what constitutes good honey, and it is 
strange that a peculiar characteristic of the 
purity of honey is often regarded by the public 
as a sign of adulteration, viz., granulation or 
crystallisation. Cfood honey, if ripe, will 
granulate even in moderately cool weather ; 
manufactured or adulterated honey never does, 
and an experienced beekeeper knows by the 
way honey moves in a vessel whether it is 
pure or not. 
On the part of the gena-al public, as well as 
of our beekeepers, it is to be hoped this tamper- 
ing with one of our important natural product 
foods will be soon put a stop to and that, if I 
the public care to purchase glucose and 
American corn syrups flavoured with a little 
essence, instead of. honey, the manufacturer 
should be compelled by the Administration of 
our Adulterated Food Act to label their pro- 
ducts honestly and openly as Corn Uyrup 
Glucose, or Confectioners’ Honey, so that people 
may know what they are- buying, 
HIVES. 
Continued from page 165. 
Whatever form of Hive a beekeeper deter- 
mines upon he will find it wise to stick to it, 
more especially as regards dimensions of boxes, 
frames, fittings. &c,, so that every part of one 
hive will fit on to or into every part of another. 
Every box and frame must therefore be exactly 
of the same sizes to a sixteenth of an inch. This 
will bo also true of ordinary box hives as we 
have already pointed out, for a beekeeper 
using box hives will find his work more easily 
and better done, with more comfort to himself 
and his bees if his boxes are all exactly the 
same size. 
The adoption of the 1-lb section-boxes for 
comb honey for the market has now become so 
general, and comb honey in that form being 
fu great demand and commanding good prices, 
it will be the aim of every beekeeper to obtain 
some at least of his surplus in that form ; it 
will be well, therefore, to adopt a size and form 
of hive-box that will accommodate a definite 
number of sections. The measurement of the 
ordinary 1-lb. section-box is if by inches 
and nearly 2 inches wide, so that four placed 
end to end will occupy 17 inches, and seven 
side to side will occupy 14 inches nearly, and 
as the inside of a Langstroth hive is 18j by 
141 inches, twenty-eight section-boxes will 
pack in nicely leaving just room for a light 
frame or crate to keep them in position. In 
any deviation from the size of the Langstroth 
it would therefore be well to use a size to 
carry a certain number of section-boxes.. 
As this article is intended to assist beginners 
in the art, as well as more experienced Bee- 
keepers, it may be well to now describe the 
methods of managing’ frame hives, so as to 
avoid the troubles and difficulties that eotiie 
to all who work unskilfully or without a 
knowledge of the ways of bees. We must sup- 
pose that a certain kind of frame-hive has 
been selected, and that a colony of bees with 
four or five frames of comb with honey brood, 
Ac., has been placed therein, the hive placed m 
a good position on a stand of some kind, or on 
the ground, the bottom board level, the en- 
trance free and clear, and the roof weather 
tight. 
1st. The frames may be either parallel wirn 
the front and back as in the English and 
German hives, or parallel with the sides, as in 
the case of most American hives, and also o 
the Langstroth hive now largely adopted m 
Australia. It must be remembered the tronc 
