Show janey by r recent ec ont experiments made by prof cook k of michigan with chemists to see whether they cou cluid 1 d always detect every change from r real cal honey it was proved that when pure sugar syrup was fed to th the lees bees it was so PC perfectly changed and given tho the real hency taste either from tho the peculiar odor odo r of the bees in the hives or more iko ike some chemical and physical galaction action of the bee life while in tho boas bees honey sack that they could not detect it while glucose adulterations adulte rations could be detected A virginia beo bee keeper Is 1 authority for the fol following lowin some 12 or 14 years ago I 1 put glass dishes on some hives to get them filled by the bees but the honey season ran out just juat as they got fairly started to make comb in them and so BO I 1 fed them granulated sugar syrup and forced them to fill the dishes up I 1 found that I 1 had to feed much more syrup than I 1 got honey and also learned that tho the flavor of the syrup had been changed to that of nice honey I 1 never tried the experiment again in tho the winter of 1889 90 my bees flew 0 out t and gathered honey from the old field fi eld pines forty two days though many of them only for a few minutes the pines some days were literally covered with drops of this honey as pure and white as tho the morning dew when evaporated as it soon was it tasted like sugar syrup but after it was stored away in the hivo hive it was a little darker in color and had the honey taste this pine honey when gathered by tho the bees has more saccharine matter in it than any other I 1 know of it will granulate in the comb in the hives in july this year I 1 commenced to extract july 14 as my bees got no surplus u up p to july 1 and I 1 found fully one fourth so thick that it could not bo be thrown out by the most rapid r revolution I 1 could give it with m my y geared extractor the western bee papers have much to say about abou their honeydew honey not being good I 1 chal lengo lenge the w world orld to beat our pine honey journal of agriculture |