American Bee Journal, Volume 55

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Dadant & Sons, 1915 - Bee culture
Includes summarized reports of many bee-keeper associations.

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Page 45 - ... in many recipes for common sugar or for molasses, and when this is done the resulting flavor is often both novel and agreeable. One of the great advantages in the use of honey is that cakes made with it will keep much longer than those made with sugar. A honey cake made with butter, for instance, will keep its quality until the butter grows rancid, and one made without butter will keep fresh for months. For this reason honey is especially useful in recipes that call for no butter. Icing made...
Page 91 - Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.
Page 45 - VARIOUS ways in which the housewife can use honey to advantage are suggested in a new publication of the United States Department of Agriculture, Farmers
Page 59 - Beacon-Hill after sunset, were affrighted by noises in the air (supposed to be the flying of bugs and beetles) which they took to be the sound of bullets. They left the hill with great precipitation, spread the alarm in their encampment, and wrote terrible accounts to England of being shot at with air-guns; as appears by their letters, extracts from which were soon after published in the London papers.
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Page 45 - ... much allowance must be made for the water which it contains. Assuming a cupful of good honey to measure one-half pint, it should weigh about 12 ounces. Of this, 9 to 10 ounces, roughly speaking; is sugar. A cupful of honey, therefore, corresponds to a little more than a cupful of cane sugar. Hence it is safe to estimate that a cupful of honey will sweeten a dish just about as much as a cupful of sugar. Besides the sugars, there is about one-fifth of a cupful of water in a cupful of honey. Theoretically,...
Page 36 - Livestock 75 Marketing, Management and Finance 60 Buildings, Equipment and Labor . . 45 Poultry 55 Vegetables, Flowers 60 Dairying 25 Orchards and Trees 45 Rural Social Life 25 Home Making 55 Free Personal Service Any farm question that puzzles a reader of THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN will be answered personally and promptly by mail. More than 100 practical experts are at our call to render this free personal service. 3 MONTHS (13 ISSUES) NOV 2 8 1230 EXPERIENCES OF PROMINENT BEEKEEPERS (Mtut* FEBRUARY...
Page 58 - With its beak it sinks a shaft in the nectariferous tissue, nibbles a little, makes another hole, and another and another, until the nectar is left flowing from many punctures,' attracting swarms of insects of all sorts.
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