. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. i£iJ<j HklL ;:EPERS' RKVIKW. 191 cheapest and most nutritious of food and best of medicine. SOME dont's. Pon^t buy honey that has stood in the open air, especially in a damp climate. The cap- pings of comb honey are very porous and affected by all strong smelling and damp surroundings; consequently do not use honey that is kept near tobacco, salt or smoked tlsh or meats, caudles etc. Don't buy honey in which any comb is immersed, for jjuve extracted honey does not need comb in it to deceive the eye for it appeals to the palate as well as the eye
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. i£iJ<j HklL ;:EPERS' RKVIKW. 191 cheapest and most nutritious of food and best of medicine. SOME dont's. Pon^t buy honey that has stood in the open air, especially in a damp climate. The cap- pings of comb honey are very porous and affected by all strong smelling and damp surroundings; consequently do not use honey that is kept near tobacco, salt or smoked tlsh or meats, caudles etc. Don't buy honey in which any comb is immersed, for jjuve extracted honey does not need comb in it to deceive the eye for it appeals to the palate as well as the eye. DonH use strained honey as it is squeezed from the comb in which dead bees, larv:e, pupa, the bee-moth's larva' etc. and even worse are present. 7^o»i7 think that honey is expensive as one quart of honey is equal to five or six pounds of butter in lasting and food results. Dou't forget that cheap syrups, ( and some expensive ones ) bring you two unwelcome visitors, first the doctor, next the undertaker. Don't buy honey without the label of some apiarist, producer or reliable tirm. Don't stay without honey when you can get a pure, ripened and wholesome article at a fair price. Don't leave your extracted or comb honey open, cover it. POBTLAND, Oregon. May 13, 189G. Is Bee Paralysis Transmitted through the Q,aeen 1 F, L. THOMPSON. (S'OME years ago k9 Rauchfuss Bro. of this State im- ported 20 queens from Italy. The next year three or four colonies had the bee-paralysis. Since then it has increased every year lasting from fruit bloom until about June 10th. Almost no fruit bloom is within reach of the bees, and no spraying is done, it nearly stops, but breaks out again when the weather All ages are affected alike, including bees just hatched, which have never been out of the hive. Bees bringing in honey and pol- len, fall down an die before the hive. The sandy expanses, where there is no vegeta- tion, in the neighborhood of one of their apiaries, are seen to be strewn w
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