. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. June, i9o8_ American liee Journal Last year was a poor one for honey. My bees gathered only 600 pounds from 39 colonies, June count, so you see that is poor. I can remember a year like it, which was 1880, when I got 700 pounds from 44 colonies. John Cochems. Mishicot, Wis. An Apiary in Arizona I am sending a photograph of my apiary of 50 colonies. I came to Tuc- drogen and oxygen are always present in the proportion to form water. Note that these elements are not present in the form of water, but should circumstances arise they would combine together
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. June, i9o8_ American liee Journal Last year was a poor one for honey. My bees gathered only 600 pounds from 39 colonies, June count, so you see that is poor. I can remember a year like it, which was 1880, when I got 700 pounds from 44 colonies. John Cochems. Mishicot, Wis. An Apiary in Arizona I am sending a photograph of my apiary of 50 colonies. I came to Tuc- drogen and oxygen are always present in the proportion to form water. Note that these elements are not present in the form of water, but should circumstances arise they would combine together and form water. Other of carbo- hydrates are sugar, starch, glucose, dex- trine, and gum. "Now if a carbohydrate—say honey— were burnt, the hydrogen and oxygen would combine to form water, which would pass into the air as steam. The. crowded and badly-ventilated rooms is- due to the presence of this gas. "Fats are also composed of the same- three elements — carbon, hydrogen, and Thej' are rich in carbon, and the hydrogen is present in greater quan- tity than is necessary to form water with all the oxygen. Hence, when a fat is oxidized or burnt, not only the car- bon, but the surplus of hydrogen is available for combination with oxygen from the air. It is this excess of hy- drogen which makes fats in general such> good illuminants and heat-producers. "The value of a food depends to a large extent on the amount of energy required to digest it. Before carbohy- drates can become of use to the body they have to be acted upon by the digest- ive juices, which convert them into a peculiar form of sugar, which in its chemical composition cannot be distin- guished from honey. It is well known that the sugar in the nectar of plants has a different composition from that of honey. The process by which the bees convert the cane-sugar of nectar into honey is supposed to take place in the honey-sac, and is therefore a di- gestive process. It is easy,
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