. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 826 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Nov. 30, 1905 of honey. There is another kind of honey I have had put into sections and supers; I don't know what source it comes from. It is white, though not snow-white hke sweet clover: it has a slightly muddy tint. That honey has no more flavor to it than so much sugar syrup. As soon as I discovered it I stopped selling it, because I said everybody that tastes that will swear it is sugar syrup and nothing else. I would like to know if anybody else has had any experience with it. I think it comes about between white clo
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 826 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Nov. 30, 1905 of honey. There is another kind of honey I have had put into sections and supers; I don't know what source it comes from. It is white, though not snow-white hke sweet clover: it has a slightly muddy tint. That honey has no more flavor to it than so much sugar syrup. As soon as I discovered it I stopped selling it, because I said everybody that tastes that will swear it is sugar syrup and nothing else. I would like to know if anybody else has had any experience with it. I think it comes about between white clover and spring clover. !Mr. Meredith—Is it honey-dew? Mr. Opfer—Here is a bottle of sweet clover honey, and I would like anybody in the audience to show better honey than this. It depends a good deal on the man that produces the sweet clover honey in my opinion. Pres. York—I am satisfied that Mr. Opfer's sample is pure sweet clover honey. I have had lots of it. Mr. Moore—I would like to say a word on this honey question. I sold to my customers some sweet clover honey in Chicago, seven or eight years ago, and it is only recently I have gotten' away from the effects of it. Any one who asks which is best, I say, "There is no best; it is simply a question of what you are used ; This market is used to clover and basswood flavors. They get their honey fiom Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan, where the pre- ponderance is white clover and basswood. I know a major- ity will have sweet clover honey. Where they get to like it, it is liked as<well as anything else. But this honey ques- tion is purely a matter of taste. They want what they have all their lives been used to, and they will absolutely condemn and call impure anything else. Mr. Becker—As far as sweet clover honey is concerned, I have no objection whatever; it is a very fine honey. But when you take out a section of sweet clover honey there is the peculiar smell to it that is not in any other honey,
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