. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 516 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, Auff. 17, 1899. from that state of evenness it was secreted by the flower- cup that would bring- about the facts as I have exprest them in my former communications ? It is an admitted fact that honey in ripening- thickens ; this admitted, it follows log-ically that the honey of the same cell and at the same time, during its process of ripen- ing-, is of different densities, and if such characterizes honey in the cell, why is not nectar in the flower-cup sub- jected to the same changes, admissive of the same charac- teristics
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 516 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, Auff. 17, 1899. from that state of evenness it was secreted by the flower- cup that would bring- about the facts as I have exprest them in my former communications ? It is an admitted fact that honey in ripening- thickens ; this admitted, it follows log-ically that the honey of the same cell and at the same time, during its process of ripen- ing-, is of different densities, and if such characterizes honey in the cell, why is not nectar in the flower-cup sub- jected to the same changes, admissive of the same charac- teristics under like circumstances ? According to the theory that warm air contains more moisture than cold air, honey kept in a warm, airy depart- ment gives off moisture ; the cool air entering a warm room, or better, a warm hive, where honey is stored, takes up moisture ; coming in contact with warm honey it expands, and takes on moisture. On the other hand, if it is stored in a cold, damp cellar, the warm air from without, striking the cold hone)' within, contracts and gives off moisture. And since honey must become tangible to the air before its moisture can be absorbed by it; and since the atmosphere cannot penetrate the wax of the cell to be tangible to all parts at the same time, it follows that the watery or thinner part of the honey must be drawn to the mouth of the cell, constituting not only a difference in the density of the honey of the cell, but leaving the richer of the saccharine substance at the rear. So attraction as well as gravitation testifies in behalf of my statement. And what is true of unripe honey is also true of nectar, since it is rawer, more easily affected, and admissive of changes. The earth's surface at night retains the heat received from the sun longer than the atmosphere above it ; the cold air coming in contact with the warm objects—flowers as well as other things—contracts, giving off moisture, pour- ing it into the flower-cup on top of the necta
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