. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 528 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. experiment seems to be open here for some one.—G. L. Tinkek. 1. As a general thing "yes," but not always. 2. If it is heated in a water- bath not over 50°, and sealed up, it wiil remain for a long time without granu- lating. I have some now that was heated the same, put up the same, and at the same time, all from the same package; some has granulated solid, while the greater portion is clear, with no signs of granulation.—H. D. Cutting. 1. It may, and it may not. Wife says we had some one winter that did not granula
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 528 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. experiment seems to be open here for some one.—G. L. Tinkek. 1. As a general thing "yes," but not always. 2. If it is heated in a water- bath not over 50°, and sealed up, it wiil remain for a long time without granu- lating. I have some now that was heated the same, put up the same, and at the same time, all from the same package; some has granulated solid, while the greater portion is clear, with no signs of granulation.—H. D. Cutting. 1. It may, and it may not. Wife says we had some one winter that did not granulate. 2. I do not know. You might heat it and seal it up, or I pre- sume you could keep it from granulating by keeping it in a warm room. We keep it from granulating in the stores by taking it out as fast as it granulates and replacing it with liquid honey. We liquify this without removing from the bottle, and sell it again on the next round.—Emerson T. Abbott. 1. As a rule, yes. But I have seen samples, and now have two samples in my collection, of my own producing, that I know to be pure, that has never candied or granulated. One of these samples is of the crop of 1877—or nearly 17 years old. 2. 1 suppose because honey is a combination of the principles of sweets, and I think that the more cane sugar a sample contains, the sooner it will granulate. I don't think it ad- visable to try to prevent its granulation. —G. W. SMpping Oueen-Bees liy Mall. Written for the American Bee Journal BY DR. J. p. H. BROVPN. As the season for shipping queens will soon be here, anything that can be said on the subject that will lend assistance in the preparations for their journey, so as to secure a safe arrival, will, no doubt, be acceptable to the queen- breeder. I have sent thousands of queens througli the mails, in nearly every va- riety of cage, to all portions of the United States—to Canada, the West Indies, and to Mexico—and I have had my successes and my losses. I
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