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Don’t Depend 
On How Roofing 
Looks-Test It 
it 
Paper-soled” shoes and genuine leather 
shoes look much alike when new. So does 
ordinary asphalt roofing and genuine Beaver 
Vulcanite roofing. 
There’s a way to prove the difference. 
Test it. 
' And then you can be sure that when you 
put Beaver Vulcanite roll roofing over your 
old roof, that it will last you for years—a fire- 
safe, weather-tight roof. Vulcanite has been 
the quality standard for twenty-five years. 
It’s thick, tough and non-fading. You can 
put it right over your old roof. You don’t 
need experts to apply it. Simple, complete 
instructions are contained in each roll. 
To make these important, telltale tests, 
ask your dealer, or mail coupon to us for 
free sample of Beaver Vulcanite slate-sur¬ 
faced roofing. Then put it to the six daring 
tests listed on this page. They will prove to 
you that Vulcanite will give you longer serv¬ 
ice for less cost. 
Mail the coupon today. With the free sam¬ 
ple we will send you complete information 
about Beaver Vulcanite roofing —roll and 
shingles. 
THE BEAVER PRODUCTS CO., Inc. 
Thorold, Canada BUFFALO, N. Y. London, England 
Manufacturers cf Beaver Wall Board, Beaver Vulcanite 
Hoofing,Beaver Plaster Wall Board and Plaster Products 
For sale by thousands of dealers, everywhere 
DARING 
TESTS 
you should make 
before you buy 
any roofing 
I Heat test: Lay 
sample of Vul¬ 
canite Slate Surfaced 
R^ofingonhot radia¬ 
tor for 12 hours. See 
if it will melt or dry 
out. 
2 Ice test: Lay 
sample on ice for 
12 hours. Then pour 
boiling water on it. 
See if extremes of 
temperature affect it. 
3 Water test: Soak 
sample in water 
for 12 hours. See if, 
by weight, itabsorbs 
any water. ( 
4 Acid test: Im¬ 
merse sample in 
hydrochloric acid. 
See if it is affected 
in any way. 
5 Fire test: Lay 
white-hot coal 
of fire on sample. 
See if it sets the 
roofing on fire. 
6 “Scuff” test: Lay 
sample on floor; 
scuff it hard with 
yourshoe. Seeifany 
of the slate-surfacing 
will come off. 
LEAVER 
VULCANITE 
R O O F I N C 
PE AV E A. 
VULCANITE 
A O Q . i „ & 
THE BEAVER PRODUCTS CO., Inc., Dept. F-F-3 
Buffalo, New York 
Gentlemen: Please send me your two free books, “Beaver Vulcanite 
Roofing,” and “How to Re-Roof,” and also a sample of genuine 
Beaver Vulcanite Roofing. 
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Bee Business 
An A. A , Radio Talk Broadcast From WEAF 
'T'HE life history 
of the honey bee, 
its habits and be¬ 
havior, have for so 
many centuries excited the admiration of 
man, that it has become a subject com¬ 
monly discussed and frequently written 
about. Let us consider this insect and 
her product from less common points of 
view. 
Let us suppose that all of the honey 
bees everywhere were to be exterminated 
by a great scourge. > That would entail 
a great loss indeed to beekeepers, but 
scarcely any one else could be expected to 
understand wherein he would be affected. 
But he would be—and quite seriously so. 
To be sure you did not see any connec¬ 
tion between that luscious orange or 
grapefruit you last ate and honey bees, 
nor did you realize that honey bees had 
anything to do with the apple pie, berry 
pudding, plum jam or cherry conserve 
you have eaten. And if you have realized 
no association between honey bees and 
By R. B. WILSON 
Bee Specialist, New York State College 
of Agriculture 
extract and sell it for 
honey, even if the 
public could thus be 
fooled. It is not 
possible to adulterate honey with cheap 
syrups because such adulteration is 
easily detected by food inspectors who 
are numerous in every State of the Union. 
Comb honey is not adulterated because 
this product has never been successfully 
imitated by man, let alone manufactured 
in large quantities as is often rumored. 
* * * 
The other misconception is that there 
is something wrong with honey that 
granulates, or candies. This is the 
natural thing for all pure honey to do 
when exposed to cool temperatures. In 
granulating none of the excellence of the 
honey is lost. It is more economical in 
most cases to nse the honey granulated 
for then there is no waste. If there is an 
objection to the coarse texture of granu¬ 
lated honey this may be overcome by 
agitating the honey vigorously before it 
these fine iruits and fruit products where- has granulated hard, producing thereby 
m the bees actually have had a direct 
bearing on the formation of the fruits, or 
conversely, wherein without bees there 
would have been no fruit or at least com¬ 
paratively little of it, surely then you 
would not be cognizant of the indirect 
connection honey bees have with almost 
everything we eat and wear. 
The direct influence of the honey bee 
on the formation of the fruits mentioned 
(and many, many more could be added 
to the list) comes about because the 
blossoms of the trees which bear them are 
not susceptible to their own pollen. 
Before the blossoms of most of our com¬ 
mon fruits can be fertilized, pollen must 
be borne to them by insects. The honey 
bee, because of its abundance and 
because of its flower visiting habits is the 
chief pollinating agency. When honey 
bees are not present settings of fruit are 
small. Fruit growers often pay bee¬ 
keepers to fetch bees to their orchards. 
This stupendous function of the honey 
bees in pollination, despite its infinitely 
greater economic value, is but incidental 
to the gathering of their food. The 
honey crop of the United States is some¬ 
where between two and three pounds per 
capita, a wholly inadequate supply once 
the public learns of the wonderful food 
value of this, Nature’s own sweet. 
The sugar in floral nectar is sucrose or 
cane sugar. Before being regurgitated 
and deposited in the cells of the comb 
there is added to it from the bee’s body a 
substance called invertase which changes 
the cane sugar to invert sugar. This fact 
affords to honey its place of preeminence 
as a health food for invert sugar is vir¬ 
tually predigested and thus honey may 
be eaten with safety by infant or aged, 
b.v the gastronomieallv sound or the 
dyspeptic. 
a fine texture that would please the most 
exacting epicure. 
Besides its extensive use in cold and 
sore throat mixtures and emollients, 
honey has another important medicinal 
value. I refer to its laxative property. 
Two cases of chronic constipation have 
come to my personal attention. One 
was an infant. The mother changed the 
sugar in the milk to honey and the trouble 
stopped. The other was the case of a 
grown woman. She started to eat honey 
by spreading it on her last piece of toast 
at breakfast every morning (an excellent 
way to get acquainted with honey by the 
way) and ever since she has been cured. 
The moral to be drawn from this is: 
Eat honey—don’t be a pill taker. 
There are other things of uncommon 
interest about honey. It will keep in¬ 
definitely, covered or uncovered. These 
keeping qualities indicate that molds, 
bacteria and the like won’t grow in honey, 
This indication was given conclusive 
proof when recently at the Colorado 
State Experiment Station powerful bac¬ 
teria that produce serious human diseases 
were inoculated into honey and in forty- 
eight hours they were all found to be dead. 
To many, honey is known only as an 
occasional spread for hot biscuit or griddle 
cakes, but there are many other appetiz¬ 
ing ways to use it. Since the next time 
you eat a grapefruit I am sure you will 
think of the honey bees, I think it only 
fitting that I should tell you that grape¬ 
fruit fixed the night before the morning 
after and sweetened with a tablespoonful 
of extracted honey instead of granulated 
sugar, is grapefruit at its best. Try honey 
instead of sugar with sliced bananas and 
try sweetening cocoa with honey. You'll 
relish the flavor. Ice cream with a spoon¬ 
ful of a delicately flavored honey poured 
over it might well be called ambrosia de 
Besides its deliciousness and the out- luxe, fit for the gods. Housewives will be 
standing fact of its availability for imme- glad to know that a few drops of honey 
diate assimilation, honey has other things added to whipping cream that won’t 
to recommend it to those who would 
eat well. In these days of “'pure” and 
“ refined ” foods much of our food is 
deprived of its mineral content. Granu¬ 
lated sugar, typical of these pure foods 
and honey’s greatest competitor, con¬ 
sumed at the rate of over one hundred 
pounds per capita in the United States 
every year, has had its mineral matter 
entirely refined out of it. Honey on the 
other hand contains all of the mineral 
whip will have the desired effect. The list 
is almost endless.. To any one who wishes 
it, we will be glad to send from the 
college free of charge, a bulletin entitled 
“Honey and Its Uses in the Home.’’ 
Recently it has been found that equal 
proportions, by volume, of a boiled solu¬ 
tion of extracted honey and water is an 
excellent anti-freezing mixture for auto¬ 
mobile radiators. Provided there are no 
leaks this mixture will last all winter, all 
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elements required by the human body, that it being necessary to do is to keep 
notably iron, so essential for the red the radiator well filled by the occasional 
blood corpuscles, and calcium and phos- addition of water. Before using this 
phorus needed respectively for bone and mixture one must take the precaution of 
brain. making sure all the connections in the 
There are two popular misconceptions cooling system are tight. This mixture 
about honey. One is that much of this freezes into a slushy ice at one degree 
commodity on the market is adulterated, above zero F. remaining soft even at 
This is not the case because it is not thirty degrees below. There is absolutely 
profitable to feed bees sugar syrup and no danger of damaging the radiator. 
