Show VINEGAR GAR BE BEES F s the united states department of agriculture is receiving many inquiries regarding a substance offered for sale for making vinegar or alcoholic beverages bavei ages under the names vinegar bees australian bees california bees african bees and various other designations these names are being applied apparently to a kind of wild yeast br or ferment which as far as can be learned was originated by the of tennessee and kentucky the primitive process for in making aking bees was to expose to the air a mixture of corn meal and molasses until it be came im with avith wild yeast and and other bacteria the ferment so produced was empl employed locally in iii making a sort of vinegar or certain alcoholic solutions by ad din ding it to a mixture of water and either brown sugar or molasses which then was allowed to work or ferment the recent inquiries seem to have been stimulated stimulate d by enterprising individuals and firms fox advertising vinegar bees aai der one or more moreon of the narres mentioned many of thesel these 4 44 verti sers make extravagant t claims for the product andack and 4 I 1 a fancy price for it which the yeast specialists odthe department say is out of all proportion to its original comfor coff or hibits t actual worth in some of the ad verti reached the department Depatt mejo ohp sellers seli assert that the su maiale stane when mixed with water and lifo molasses lasses or sugar will produce beer or wine oher promoters go so far as to say ady that tha t the mixture is beneficial in the treatment of rheumatism and kidney lp claims which have no foundation in fact in inthe the opinion of the depart meni men a specialists a I 1 product ln yeast easland and bacteria ic from the air malvery may y I 1 I 1 Very well contain harmful as aswell well as desirable organ ins ims arid and the sp specialists state that ibeal care sh should be exer exe r ased in both the preparation and the use of such a product in their judgment beedis bees be esis is not as well suited for foal producing alcoholic fermentation as is the ordinary cake and they can in ar y yeast not recommend it at all for making vinegar |