. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. I^e $ee-Keepeps' jHev^iecu, A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to tl^e Interests of Hoqey Producers. $1,00 A YEAR. W, Z. HOTCHlNSOfl, EditoP & PPop. VOL V. FLINT, MICHIGAN, APRIL 10. 1892. NO. 4. Mr. Hasty, the Keview, and Their Critics. WM, F. OLAKKE. " For one slight trespass all this stir ? What if he did ride whip and spur ? 'Twas but a mile, your favorite horse Will never look a hair the ; T READ Mr. 1 Hasty's sugar- honey article in the Dec. No. of the Review with much interest, as I do everything that proceeds from his facile pen, and d
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. I^e $ee-Keepeps' jHev^iecu, A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to tl^e Interests of Hoqey Producers. $1,00 A YEAR. W, Z. HOTCHlNSOfl, EditoP & PPop. VOL V. FLINT, MICHIGAN, APRIL 10. 1892. NO. 4. Mr. Hasty, the Keview, and Their Critics. WM, F. OLAKKE. " For one slight trespass all this stir ? What if he did ride whip and spur ? 'Twas but a mile, your favorite horse Will never look a hair the ; T READ Mr. 1 Hasty's sugar- honey article in the Dec. No. of the Review with much interest, as I do everything that proceeds from his facile pen, and detect- ed in it nothing "outof the ; Hence I was at once amazed and amused at the furious on- slaught of criticism which assailed him in the February issue. I supposed all advanced bee keepers had got beyond the teaching embodied in that juvenile ditty of Dr. Watts which we so often hear alluded to, usually more in jest than in earnest:— " How doth the little busy bee Improve the shining hour. And gather honey all the day From every opening ; I never dreampt for a moment that such masters of the art of honey production as Dr. Miller and H. R, Boardman clung to the nursery idea that bees "gather ; Hasty is undoubtedly right in maintaining that the bee is a manufacturer, and that the. nectar extracted from the flowers is the raw material which is converted into honey by some mysterious process that goes on in that wonderful laboratory, the bee stomach. I believe also that he is quite correct in the view that the change from crude and often insipid nectar to luscious honey takes place during transit from the flower to the hive, and that the honey flavor is somehow or other "caught on the ; Chemistry in- forms us that honey is very similar in its properties to sugar. They differ simply in the qualities imparted during passage through the bee-stomach. The difference is very considerable, as I know by sad expe- rience. I
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