Gleanings in Bee Culture - February, 1961
4. Effect of Crop Year on Composition 1/
JONATHAN W. WHITE, JR.
Eastern Regional Research Laboratory
Eastern Utilization Research and Development Division
Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture
Philadelphia 18, Pennsylvania
Number four in a series of ten articles on the different honeys of America.
In the collection of honey samples from over the United States for this project, honey was collected from the two crop years, 1956 and 1957. This was done because insufficient samples had been obtained from one year to fill our requirements, and also because we hoped that information might be obtained that would throw some light on the amount of variation in honey attributable to the effect of the crop year. We realize that collection for only two years is quite insufficient to provide definitive information about this factor, but we were limited as to the number of samples we could handle, so were obliged to consider only the two years.
Average Composition for the Two Years
In the first article in this series the average analysis was given for all honey samples analyzed. Here we present the average analyses of all 1956 honey samples and of all 1957 honey samples. Table 1 shows the values. It can be seen that the average 1957 honey was somewhat lighter in color, slightly lower in granulation tendency, slightly higher in levulose, lower in undetermined material, and otherwise quite similar to the 1956 honey. These two averages are not made up of corresponding samples, however, and their values depend on the sample response from producers for the two years.
4. Effect of Crop Year on Composition 1/
JONATHAN W. WHITE, JR.
Eastern Regional Research Laboratory
Eastern Utilization Research and Development Division
Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture
Philadelphia 18, Pennsylvania
Number four in a series of ten articles on the different honeys of America.
In the collection of honey samples from over the United States for this project, honey was collected from the two crop years, 1956 and 1957. This was done because insufficient samples had been obtained from one year to fill our requirements, and also because we hoped that information might be obtained that would throw some light on the amount of variation in honey attributable to the effect of the crop year. We realize that collection for only two years is quite insufficient to provide definitive information about this factor, but we were limited as to the number of samples we could handle, so were obliged to consider only the two years.
Average Composition for the Two Years
In the first article in this series the average analysis was given for all honey samples analyzed. Here we present the average analyses of all 1956 honey samples and of all 1957 honey samples. Table 1 shows the values. It can be seen that the average 1957 honey was somewhat lighter in color, slightly lower in granulation tendency, slightly higher in levulose, lower in undetermined material, and otherwise quite similar to the 1956 honey. These two averages are not made up of corresponding samples, however, and their values depend on the sample response from producers for the two years.
Table 1. Average Composition of Honey Samples for Two Crop Years |