. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 719 Honey is in no sense an animal sub- stance. It is principally vegetable glu- cose. The water and some minor salts are mineral.—C. H. Dibbern. Honey from flowers is purely vegeta- ble. Honey that exudes through the leaves of plants, caused by lice, or other insects, may be called "insect ;— Mrs. Jennie Atchley. Neither. Honey no doubt is of a veg- etable nature. It is secreted by vegeta- bles, and gathered by animals, passing through some changes in the process. Exactly what these changes are is not fully known
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 719 Honey is in no sense an animal sub- stance. It is principally vegetable glu- cose. The water and some minor salts are mineral.—C. H. Dibbern. Honey from flowers is purely vegeta- ble. Honey that exudes through the leaves of plants, caused by lice, or other insects, may be called "insect ;— Mrs. Jennie Atchley. Neither. Honey no doubt is of a veg- etable nature. It is secreted by vegeta- bles, and gathered by animals, passing through some changes in the process. Exactly what these changes are is not fully known. Some of us think we know what they are not.—Emerson T. Abbott. Vegetable. It the natural secretion of flowers, gathered by the bees. Whether any chemical change takes place or not in the stomach of the bees while conveying it from the field to the hive, is a mooted question. In no case, however, can it be an animal substance. —J. E. Pond. It is vegetable, pure and simple. Honey is nectar secreted by nectar-bear- ing plants and trees, collected by bees and evaporated and cured by them. It takes on by absorption more or less of formic acid by reason of being in con- tact with the heat generated by the bees. This can be proven by evaporat- ing sugar syrup over a strong colony of bees with wire-cloth between the bees and the syrup.—G. W. Demaree. CONVENTION DIRECTORY. Time and place of meeting. 1893. June 16, 17.—S. E. Kansas, at Bronson, Kans. J. C. Balch, Sec, Bronson, Kans. Oct. 11, 12, 13.—North American (Interna- tional), at Chicago, Ills. Frank Benton. Sec. Washington, D. C. In order to have this table complete, Secretaries are requested to forward full particulars of the time and the place of each future meeting.—The Editor. North American Bee-Keepers' Association President—Dr. C. C. Miller Marengo, Ills. Vice-Pres.—J. E. Crane Middlehury, Vt. Secretary-Frank Benton, Washington, D. C. Treasurer—George W. .Chicago, Ills. National Bee-Keepers' Un
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