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SEMI- TROPIC C. 1U FOUNT A. 
happy as to over sor Heaven, but I can flay 
now that I have been blessed with a sight 
ol Paradise." I am disposed to borrow 
my friend's language, and apply it to 
Pasadena and its environs. 
Pasaheka, Mar, 1880. 
now 
is in Germany and other European article. Messrs. Butler and Sims expect 
giprarj) Dfjjarfimjnt. 
fU»nto M >. Luvtriivo. 
estracthi> avd mutnti noSKV. 
Commercialists, ns a general thing, in 
nearly all their commercial report* 
quote all liquid strained. This is a great 
error, and should bn corrected, among 
commercial men as well as a large majority 
of consumers. There is a wide difference 
between strained and extracted Strained 
honn is that which is filtered or pressed 
through doth, which was the primitive 
way of straining honey Now, under the 
present improved un-tlind, it is strained by 
means of n sun extractor, which consists 
of a three-square box, one foot or more 
deep, lined with zinc or tin. a dminer of 
hhe metal fitted in the box, about midway 
from the top, upon which is placed the 
comb, fragments, etc. The top is covered 
with gloss (a common window flash), which 
attracts the heat of the sun, causing the 
comb to melt, and houfiy, wax, ben bread, 
dead bees and all to run or mix together, 
deal toying Dm original flavor of the honey; 
the wax p.HBeg through thoatrairier below, 
where it tools, and the honey is drawn off 
countries, it will be graded on this plan. 
People prefer appearance to real worth or 
value. A more general use of honey will 
doubtless correct this error. 
HOMEY CAKK, 
1 1 is a prevalent opinion that honey can 
not Im used as successfully in the culinary 
department as sugar, especially in making 
cake. The large and delicious honey e«kr 
recently presented us by Mrs. Josephine 
Benedict convinces ns nt least I hat this 
is a great error The cake referred to was 
a- light and spongy as any that we have 
seen made with sugar. Through the kind¬ 
ness of this lady, who i> second to none ns 
a cake makei, w e are permitted to give her 
recipe for honey cake to the public. Here 
it is: 
One pint of honey; half pound butter; 
two eggs; half pint sour milk; half t.ea 
spoon-full soda; flour enough to make a 
stiff batter. 
Tins, ladies, i« the mother of E P 
Benedict, who bus boon so successful in 
making an excellent sugar out of honey. 
With our hat under our arm, and our best 
bow for Die cuku. we say sucres* to the 
Benedict family in their ofl'orts to utilize 
honey. 
The 
to fill this immense tank four times this 
season, and this is not a good honey year, 
either. _ 
The Araiusra of Southern California are 
taking active steps to make the largest and 
finest display of honey at the Southern 
California Horticultural Fair this fall ever 
made in the world. 
by means of a gate nt tile lower end of the 1 “' ,n 
extractor Honey thus strained partakes 
more m Jess of the flavor of bee bread, 
dead bees and other impurities with which 
i! comes iu contact. The Imuey is regarded 
by all proper apiarist* ft' until for market, 
and is reserved to feed young or weak 
colonics in the winter or curly in the 
bpiing. Extracted Imney is tbat which is 
flown toil of the comb by centrifugal 
foici will) a machine known as Dm Mol 
Extractor, aud docs nut come iu 
wilh bee bread Ol any oth 
mutter— leaving the honey 
and pure as (lie nectar of the gods. A* 
w it might forty-rod whisky be emupnred 
to the sparkling waters that well up in 
Uh licit |k of purudiHc, as to compare ex- 
traded hom y to straiued. We point out 
II" distinction in order that commercial 
m.-n mid others who read this muv see the 
propriety of calling things bv then 
naiAOii. 
extracting season is now com¬ 
mencing. The honey extracted in our 
apiary so far is of a light straw color and 
plcUnuil, flavor; is gatlmred from wild 
alfalfa and various other bloom. It. is 
lolieious. and when applied to pancakes 
•anscfl them to slip down the ned; like 
oil down Aaron’s board. The black or 
bail sage is now blooming, and will afford 
In.’iicy of improved lluvor and color. 
FRUIT DRYING. 
A crop well grown is only half way to 
market. The profits- of fruit raising are 
not all in producing Die beHt quality, but 
in selling to the beat advantage. The 
great, trouble here, in Southern California, 
lifts been iu not receiving a fair price for 
fruits. Our solution of this question is— 
dry much of ynur fruits, and sell when 
you get ready at a good price. 
It has been carefully estimated that 
when throe-quartern of a cent, per pound 
is paid for fruit, il is worth two ccnls to 
the seller to dry il himself, and pay good 
working wages for his labor. This is a 
low estimate, ami with the juices that 
have been paid during the last year, a very 
handsome profit, cun be made by the fruit 
raiser by drying and welling when the 
market price and demand will justify him. 
The. market and demand for well cured 
fruits is and always will be good. Here, 
in Southern California, we are especially 
favored, on account of the largo trade we 
are now having fiom Arizona and other 
mining districts of the south-west. This 
demand will be largely increased during 
Die coming year, and juices will be cor¬ 
respondingly' high 
contact 
no foreign 
'trictly cjcnn 
gO OB. 
_ J, 
Our advice to evc-rv fruit grower is thin; 
K,u,CmwMu 1ms about one fn,U if good jirirms 
thousand “bee men," and one of Diem 1 ‘ I' ''l/f hc,w, “ 1 , ' 1 ■ v >’ n .T fn,,t 
who is w.-ll pouted, informs us the entire I £°T 1?®? . ftt 1 ch, W™n >° 
crop will reach nearly four million pound “"/I V*, 01 e, V H P ftru 
At six and one-fourth ecnta per poutai, 
Dos will bring 2i>U,U00 dollars in coin. 
I he busy little bee is un institution worth 
having. 
A SMALL HONEY TANK, 
L5 > 'fvitjitiuii of Mr. L. H. Butler, ©f the 
In in of Butler and Sims, Verdugo Canyon, 
apiarists, we inspected tiro largest honey 
tauk we have ever seen. It is built cif 
we 
proj.er 
HUJiC 
(IIIAHIN 
The manner of grading hotioy iminotln i 
error that the American people have fall, u 
Uito, and should be corrected. Id, this 
country, among both luidm and oou- 
• 11 m - 1 honey i» Uiiivnisally gnutoil by 
color, while in Europe it f* graded bv 
UuVor * " hn-h is the proper method. Then 
\\ e would especially caution every ona to 
’I” their work in hist class shape', so that 
their fruit, will he iu number one market¬ 
able condition, 
A fruit drift is one of tho requisites of 
Hiiccws in Jirtqwiriug dried fruits for 
market; band-dried fruit does not atdl so 
readily nor for us good a prion, 
A neighborhood might combine to buy 
u 1*amily fruit drier, mid more than pay 
.-“s»-«.■>,"«.. ."m; : 
feel si* inches deep, with a capacity of ’ ' * ~ 1 
1 4,mill pounds of extracted honey. 
The roof is solid plauk on one' vide and 
glass on the other; the ridge polo six 
inches wale, covered with gauze wire. 
dried. 
all rouped* to siin- 
I lie rapid prune** retains their 
tiiivoi; lhero is no chance for Dm dust, 
rimh and other iincoiuestiblos so often 
found in our dried fruit; ami by ll... 
, ' «lni vt thia tauk sets in tha' l,on«y' modu. t oftKTfr 
house, under the extractor so the hon.-l 1 I . i ' r ° K| '. «home due,I fruit 
im U T. U U 'V iy t0 11,6 
iMnoot, lira tank extend* ontaule 
who {.•iintcinplttl.e utilizing tlicir 
I run king soimi money from Ihoir 
would do well to see oi write 
mid Karnes. L. 
fui this county, 
os Augo I OH, 
to 
llm 
