. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 524 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Aug. 13, 1903. can find so much help in the good old Ameri- can Bee Journal. I can not do without it, and I am not like the poor fellow who wanted it stopped because he had no time to read it. Poor fellow; I pity the man. I shall want to ask a question or two after a little if it is all right, as I am building a bee- bouse and want to go into extracting a little next year. John Coates. Dunn Co., Wis., July 29. [Send on your questions any time.—Ed.] Home-Made Grape-Nuts and Postum. In a late editorial there was an objectio
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 524 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Aug. 13, 1903. can find so much help in the good old Ameri- can Bee Journal. I can not do without it, and I am not like the poor fellow who wanted it stopped because he had no time to read it. Poor fellow; I pity the man. I shall want to ask a question or two after a little if it is all right, as I am building a bee- bouse and want to go into extracting a little next year. John Coates. Dunn Co., Wis., July 29. [Send on your questions any time.—Ed.] Home-Made Grape-Nuts and Postum. In a late editorial there was an objection made to mixing honey with some cheaper food to increase the sale of honey. I wish to give an account of a little discovery that I lately made. I was eating a slice of bread well saturated with honey when I was called away. I slipped the plate in the oven, and when I resumed my meal I had "; Further experi- menting showed me that crusts of bread sat- urated with honey and dried in the oven gave me ";' I was using Postum and Grape-Nuts at the time, but I make my own now at a wonderful saving. I wish that you would test this, and also discuss it at the coming convention. Understand, the crusts of bread for Postum, and the inner loaf for Grape-Nuts—a " predi- gested" food—at a saving of percent. What would it amount to if all the bee-keep- ers would use it? S. Trowbridge. Clay Co., Fla., July 22. Not Satisfied with Honey-Prices. My 65 colonies of bees came through in good condition, although an exceptionally cold April was very hard on them. May, however, brought its fine weather, and we have done, I think, very well considering that we keep bees as a " side ; We have increased, by swarming, to 88 col- onies, and taken 3575 finished sections of honey. I am not satisfied with the prices. For in- stance, the Kansas City quotations on the same grade of honey that I produce is * and $ per case, while th
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