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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Mar. 31, 1904. 



placed on the market. It is high time that the American people rise 

 in their might and smite the base adulterators of pure-food products, 

 and those who endeavor to palm off on an unsuspecting public their 

 miserable compounds, which they claim are equal to the genuine arti- 

 cle, if not better. There should be a National law which would pro- 

 hibit the use of the word Honey on any other article but the genuine, 

 as produced by the bees. This, of course, should be made general so 

 as to apply to other articles of pure food. It is a burning shame that 

 manufacturers are allowed thus to appropriate reputable names for 

 their disreputable foods. 



There is probably no other class whose interests can be so easily 

 destroyed as that of the bee-keepers, when the name of their pure 

 product can be misapplied and connected with some spurious article 

 and put upon the market, as is being done at the present time by un- 

 scrupulous manufacturers. 



It has been stated, and we believe truly, that there is no legitimate 

 use for glucose. So far as we know, it never sells under its true 

 name, but must ever be sold under the name of something that is pure 

 and genuine, and that really has a value in the estimation of the pub- 

 lic. We do not believe that the American people would purchase glu- 

 cose in any appreciable quantity if they knew just what they were 

 liuying when the glucose is " worked off " on them. 



The National Bee-Keepers' Association has a great work to do 

 along this line. We hope that it may soon be in a position to •' get 

 busy " and look after these matters in a way that will not only be a 

 credit to itself and bee-keepers everywhere, but will result in inesti- 

 mable good to humanity. We all must eat. We want to know that 

 we are eating pure food. The very best way, as we see it, is for the 

 National Government to take up this matter and invite the co-opera- 

 tion of organizations like the National Bee-Keepers' Association, and 

 thus compel those who put up and offer for sale food products to Jabel 

 them in a truthful manner. 



Lessening the Cost of Hives. 



The Rocky Mountain Bee Journal thinks there might be advan- 

 tage in simplifying hive-construction. It thinks plain, cleated bot- 

 tom-boards and plain telescope covers roofed with painted muslin are 

 good enough, and thafrabbets may be omitted in supers and scallops 

 in bottoms of section-holders. A large number of bee-keepers would 

 be in accord with this, if the saving of cost were sufficient, but there 

 would be division of opinion if a vote were taken upon the motion to 

 discard Hoffman frames for plain, thick top-bar frames. Many would 

 agree in regarding " the Hoffman frame as little less than an abomi- 

 nation," while many others would consider it almost indispensable. 

 But the extreme of condemnation is reserved for the short top-bar 

 with the expense of spacing staples. Editor Morehouse will never get 

 unanimity on that, for just as much as he condemns it others com- 

 mend it, and would not do without it were the extra expense quad- 

 rupled. 





Miscellaneous Items 



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Mr. H. C. Morehouse, of Boulder Co., Colo., writing us March 

 16, had this to say about the prospects for the coming season : 



" You can mark Colorado crop prospects up a few notches. We 

 are getting a tremendous snow-storm lo-night and to-day, and the 

 drouth is now broken. Our greatest stonii-season (April) is yet to 

 come, and with the start made to-day, I think water is assured. My 

 bees have been gathering pollen since Feb. 22, and the weather is that 

 of May rather than March." 



Two Woodland Pictures have come to us through the kind- 

 ness of Mr. W. Z. Hutchinson, who is making himself famous as an 

 artist in the line of high-class photography. One of the pictures is 

 called "Michigan's Last Pines," in which the trees standout almost 

 as though real, instead of a picture on a flat surface. Then, one can 

 look away back into the dimly-lighted aisles, where only once in a 

 while a straggling sunbeam finds its way. Mr. Hutchinson spent a 

 day looking for this particular view, and waited for the sun toO)e in 

 the right diiection, away up in the northern part of the "Lower 

 Peninsula," in Otsego County. He was told, and he thinl;s it is true, 

 that this lot of pine is the last of Michigan's soft white-pine. 



The other photograph is an autumn scene, in which are shown in 



their natural beauty a grove of tall sugar-maples, with a depth of fallen 

 leaves on the ground. 



We suggested to Mr. Hutchinson that these two pictures should 

 be used in one of the leading magazines, with a suitable descriptive 

 article, and thus not only preserve them in a more permanent form, 

 but also give them a wide circulation. 



We wish here to thank Mr. Hatchinson for the two beautiful 

 pictures. 



Capt. J. E. Hetherington. — In an appreciative obituary 

 notice in the British Bee Journal, written by the senior editor, Thos. 

 Wm. Cowan, occurs the following: 



" We had the pleasure of visiting Capt. Hetherington in 1887, and 

 stayed some days with him. At that time he had 20 apiaries situated 

 at distances of two or three miles apart, in a radius of 12 miles, so that 

 the greatest distance he had to go from home was 12 miles. He and 

 his brother managed the whole of these apiaries, having several men 

 under them. We were there during the hours of business, which com- 

 menced at 5 o'clock in the morning, ano saw all the working. The 

 men went around from hive to hive, and took off super after super, 

 which, in hives with three stories of sections, were promptly exam- 

 ined and removed, if necessary, and in this way 100 to 150 supers of 

 sections were taken off and carried away." 



Mr. E. E. Hasty, our " Afterthought ''-er, when sending the 

 last installment for his department, wrote us as follows : 



Fkiend York: — 



" When shall I hear de bees a-humming 

 All around de comb?" 

 Sometime. Ah, presumably, sometime. E. E. Hasty. 



Whereupon we at once replied to his question thus, instead of re- 

 ferring it to Dr. Miller : 



Friend Hasty : — Just wait, and a little later — 

 You shall " hear de bees a-humming, 



All around de comb," 

 When from de flowers de bees are coming. 

 To dere " Home, Sweet Home." 



We didn't know whether our answer to his question was the cor- 

 rect one, but considered as an " afterthought " it might do, perhaps. 



I Convention Proceedings j 



Report of the Ontario Bee-Keepers' Convention 

 Held in Trenton, Dec. 1, 2, and 3, 1903. 



BY MORLBY PETTIT. 



The Ontario Bee-Keepers' Association met in annual 

 convention in the Town Hall at Trenton, Dec. 1, 2, and 3, 

 1903. After an opening prayer by Mr. J. K. Darling-, Pres. 

 W. A. Chrysler gave an address, as follows : 



PRESIDENT CHRYSLER'S ADDRESS. 



I am very much pleased to greet so many of our old and 

 new members that have assembled here. 



It might be well to remind ourselves that we are one 

 year older than when we last met. "Time rolls its cease- 

 less course." The remembrances of past years picture 

 varying degrees in the beekeepers' enthusiasm. 



While we have had, in times past, good crops and fair 

 prices, there have been others where large quantities of 

 honey never reached a profitable market. 



While some parts of the Province have not been fortu- 

 nate in obtaining a good crop this season, there is a surplus 

 in others that is causing some anxiety on the part of the 

 holders. 



The same old subjects that we have been discussing in 

 the past meetings are no doubt instructive to all of us in 

 obtaining perfection in our pursuit, but I hope you will not 

 allow them to become the all-absorbiag subjects for debate. 

 Let us not lose sight of the most vital subject at present, 

 conducive to the greatest success and profitableness of our 

 industry, which is the marketing and disposing of our 

 honey in our own and distant markets. 



The Honey Exchange Committee will present the report 

 of their work during the past year, enumerating their diffi- 

 culties and recommendations, and I sincerely hope you, one 



