. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 24 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Jan. 12, 190S. would be were Polaris blotted out—nothing bigger than fifth magnitude for 12 degrees radius. BULK COMB HONEY MARKET. Market for bulk comb in danger of being overstocked. One would think so if they are all going at it. Decided limits to the market—and market partly founded on the miserable untruth that sections are fabricated. Customers too enlightened to take any stock in the cry of manufactured comb, and in the habit of buying sections, are not likely to join in a stampede back to chunk honey. Page 792. PRI
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 24 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Jan. 12, 190S. would be were Polaris blotted out—nothing bigger than fifth magnitude for 12 degrees radius. BULK COMB HONEY MARKET. Market for bulk comb in danger of being overstocked. One would think so if they are all going at it. Decided limits to the market—and market partly founded on the miserable untruth that sections are fabricated. Customers too enlightened to take any stock in the cry of manufactured comb, and in the habit of buying sections, are not likely to join in a stampede back to chunk honey. Page 792. PRICKLY PEARS AS BEE-FBED. Who'd a-thought it ? Who knew prickly pears were plenty enough anywhere to use as bee-feed? is one of the pathfinders whose path few people are likely to follow. Page 792. "strained" honey and girlish beauty. It's a villainous reminder of dark ages—still, with us— that 'most everybody persists so in saying " strained honey ". And, Sister Wilson, when we copy recipes that have the vicious phrase in, let's quietly change it and say nothing—as might have been done on page 793. No, I'll take that back. To make a nice girl more beautiful than she already is requires such " pauwerful" influences that it's to be supposed that it won't do to trust commercial ex- tracted honey. Crush a good section and pass it through gauze and have some real strained honey. SUGAR NOT GOOD FOR REARING QUEENS. " I feed honey—sugar is not fit to rear queen-bees ; This gospel, according to Darrow, sounds to me like good, sound gospel, albeit I am not a safe authority, not being a queen-breeder. Perhaps something would depend upon the condition of the pollen-supply. Sugar syrup very inade- quate when pollen is scarce, but almost tolerable when abundance of pollen is coming in every day. Page '^ Doctor UliUcr's Question = Box J Send Questions either to the office of the American Bee Journal, or to Dr. C. C. Miller,
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