. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. tt Journal DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE PRODUCERS. OF HONEY. VOL. XX. CHICAGO, ILL., AUGUST 6, 1884 No. 32. Published every Wednesday, by THOMAS fi. NEWMAN, EDITOF jiXD Pkoprietor, The Honey Crop. The honey crop of the present year is not up to the standard either in quantity or quality. In some locali- ties the so-called "honey-dew" has been so abundant as even to kill the leaves of the trees where it was de- posited, and, of course, the bees gathered it in large quantities, and deposited it in the hives, but it is unworthy of the name o
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. tt Journal DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE PRODUCERS. OF HONEY. VOL. XX. CHICAGO, ILL., AUGUST 6, 1884 No. 32. Published every Wednesday, by THOMAS fi. NEWMAN, EDITOF jiXD Pkoprietor, The Honey Crop. The honey crop of the present year is not up to the standard either in quantity or quality. In some locali- ties the so-called "honey-dew" has been so abundant as even to kill the leaves of the trees where it was de- posited, and, of course, the bees gathered it in large quantities, and deposited it in the hives, but it is unworthy of the name of honey, not being of the nature of that article at all. A communication by Prof. Cook, in last week's Bee .Journal,describes very minutely the insects that deposit it; and also gives the remedies for preserving the trees from injury. But now comes a worse trouble, and it is of a two-fold nature~we refer to the uses to which this so- called " honey-dew " secretion is put, when gathered by the bees. To sell it for honey will be as damaging to the sale of pure honey as to put glu- cose upon the market and sell it for honey, and it should not be done un- der any circumstances. A one-pound section well-filled with this stuff was placed on our desk a few days ago, with the question, "What is it?" It neither has the smell nor taste of honey, and is the poorest kind of a substitute for it. To all, then, the Bee .Journal would say ; " Do not undertake to sell it for honey; no matter what the amount may be which the bees have deposited in their surplus honey ; The other point of the " caution " which we would give, is this : If the fall crop of honey should be a poor one, the bees may have nothing upon which to subsist during the coming winter, except this secretion of the aphidw, misnamed honey-dew, and the result of such a state of affairs may be very detrimental—spreading disease and death all around. Should there be a bountifnl hone
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