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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Dec. 22, 1904. 



ing town there is syrup sold under the head of honey, put up 

 by a manufacturing company of this town with a little piece 

 of comb in it, and it looks as nice ?s can be. Those people 

 have a right, I suppose, to advertise, and when we begin ad- 

 vertising we put our goods on the market against theirs. It 

 Sf»r> tr Tie we should have legislation. 



Dr. Miller moved that Prof. Benton be requested to pre- 

 pare such a bulletin as he suggested and have it put in the 

 list of Farmers' Bulletins. 



Dr. Bohrer — I hope the motion will prevail ; I think that 

 is striking the keynote. All the advertising we can do is not 

 going to compel men to cease the adulteration of honey, either 

 extracted or in the comb, and if the language, as it is shaped 

 in the paper that was read, was to go to the public in that 

 way, I would withdraw the offer of $1,000 for a section iyi 

 by 4% of honeycomb manufactured and filled with adulterated 

 honey and sealed by human hands. 



Prof. Benton — The idea of the bulletin would be to state 

 the various uses of both comb and extracted honey — anything 

 that would educate the people in general. [Motion carried.] 



Mr. Abbott — I like this idea, but I want to get at it a 

 little quicker, and before I make a motion let me explain why. 

 I, myself, and many of those who publish papers, write letters 

 by the thousand. If we had a little leaflet of about two pages 

 we could stick one in every letter we write, and all the people 

 would get something about honey without the cost of a nickel. 

 I move that it is sense of this meeting that the Board of 

 Directors of this National Association be requested to pre- 

 pare such a circular and furnish it free to anybody who will 

 distribute it in any way he or she may see fit. 



Mr. Cary moved to amend the motion by restricting the 

 free distribution to the members of the Association. 



Prof. Benton— Since this is put forward in connection 

 with the subject of a farmers' bulletin on honey and its uses, 

 I would like to say in making this suggestion I did not wish 

 for a moment to have anyone suppose that was intended to 

 cover the whole ground, but such work as that which has 

 just been suggested is along the same lines, and would be 

 merely supplementary, or my work would be supplementary 

 to that. 



Mr. Abbott — Yours would be the higher grade of work. 

 This would be elementary. [Motion carried.] 



Mr. Hershiser — There is one method of advertising the 

 use of honey, and doing away with the superstitions of people 

 with reference to bees that I think I can speak of, inasmuch 

 as I was not the originator of it; that is, the methods that 

 are employed in the city of Buffalo in the common schools. 

 For a good many years the seventh grades have been as- 

 sembled in such numbers as would be convenient to speak 

 to in the lecture-rooms of the Buffalo Society of Natural 

 Science to hear talks upon bees and birds. Supplementary 

 to these the children are required to read a certain book on 

 birds and bees, and then they are given a talk of one hour 

 on these subjects. I have given these talks for a number 

 of years, and previous to last year the talks were very un- 

 satisfactory because the children were expected to go and 

 hear them at some hour outside of school hours. I sug- 

 gested it should be made a part of the school work, and since 

 then the teachers have accompanied the pupils to the rooms 

 and it has been very satisfactory. These talks give the very 

 best possible opportunity to a person well qualified to speak 

 upon the subject, of showing all about honey and bees. I 

 use just an ordinary hive of bees— an observatory hive — to 

 mterest the children. Then I show them a few of the most 

 useful miplements- a smoker, bee-veil, a honey-knife, and 

 show them how honey is extracted, and this honey they can 

 buy upon the market is nothing but Dure honey taken out of 

 the comb. You also have the opportunity of saying to the 

 people and warning them never to buy honey that has a little 

 slice of comb honey in it, because it is almost sure to be 

 somethmg that is adulterated, although not necessarily so. 

 You can also do a great deal towards showing that this story 

 about honey being manufactured by human ingenuity is also 

 untrue, because you can show them no two combs are alike, 

 and if they were manufactured by machinery they would all 

 be uniform. If you tell them to observe when buying honey, 

 that the combs are all different in some respects, it is an 

 education they will not very easily forget. In making these 

 talks to the seventh grade children, you will observe that it 

 will only take a few years till every family knows about bees. 

 The children go home and say they have had an interesting 

 time— not that / can interest them so very much— and the 

 teachers of the pupils are there with them, and they are very 

 much interested, and you will be surprised at the amount of 

 ignorance, or want of knowledge, that these people wlio are 



well educated possess. Even the superintendent of schools at 

 Buffalo, who was present on one or two occasions, asked some 

 of the most ridiculous questions. 



Mr. Diebold — I would like to suggest in regard to Dr. 

 Miller's proposition, that the General Manager of this Asso- 

 ciation be empowered to copyright the label, and that would 

 protect the Association in its work, and in order to get money 

 let the Association tax every member 5 cents a colony towards 

 paying the expense. 



Mr. Woods (111.) — In regard to the expense of adver- 

 tising, I am satisfied that if the Association gets up a suitable 

 leaflet, nearly every member of the Association can have it 

 published in his own home papers, and the papers around him. 

 That would be one means of spreading it very largely, with 

 no cost. One point we will have to look at, when we give an 

 article to a reporter, is to see that he does not cut out the 

 good things, or make an alteration. 



Mr. Dadant offered the following resolution : 



Resolved, That the National Bee-Keepers' Association in 



congress assembled, send their congratulations to the Pure 



Food Congress for their labors on behalf of pure food, and 



hope they may be successful in procuring pure food legislation. 



The motion was seconded, and carried. Pres. Harris then 

 appointed a committee composed of the following to present 

 the resolution to the Pure Food Congress : Messrs. York, 

 Pressler and Rouse. 



(Continued next week.) 



The Pennsylvania State Convention. 



The first annual convention of the Pennsylvania State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association closed at Harrisburg at 11 p.m., 

 Dec. 7, having been in session since noon of the 6th. The 

 meeting was most profitable and enjoyable. 



The first session on Tuesday afternoon was devoted to 

 business. Immediately after this session the oSJcers of the 

 Association, together with Manager France of the National, 

 and Mr. Benton, called upon Gov. Pennypacker. The Gov- 

 ernor showed great interest in the industry represented, 

 and asked many questions. The audience lasted full 40 

 minutes. 



On Tuesday evening Pres. Surface, State Economic 

 Zoologist, addressed the meeting, dwelling largely upon the 

 education necessary to put our industry upon a more sub- 

 stantial footing. 'This address was followed by a paper by 

 Dr. E. F. Phillips, of the University of Pennsylvania, on 

 " Habits of Bees, and Some Misapprehensions ". 



The Wednesday morning session was taken up entirely 

 by the disease question, which was ably presented by Mana- 

 ger France. 



Wednesday afternoon Mr. Pratt spoke upon " Queen- 

 Rearing "', Mr. O. C. Fuller on " Bee-Keeping as a Busi- 

 ness", and Mr. Gabriel Heister, of Harrisburg, a prominent 

 horticulturist, on " Bees and Horticulture". 



Wednesday evening Richard D. Barclay, of the State 

 College, outlined the work which has been done, and which 

 was proposed to do, in apicultural lines at the Pennsylvania 

 State College. Mr. Frank Benton, of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, presented a most able and in- 

 teresting paper on " Improvement of Honey-Bees ". Rev. 

 W. H. Bender, of Adams County, presented a paper on 

 " Honey-Bearing Flora of Adams County, Pa." 



The convention passed resolutions on the death of W. 

 E. Yoder, of Lewisburg ; concerning desired legislation ; 

 and thanked those who had favored this association during 

 the convention, also the president and secretary for their 

 efforts the past year. 



Honey as a Health-Food.— This is a 16-page honey- 

 pamphlet intended to help increase the demand for honey. 

 The first part of it contains a short article on " Honey as 

 Food ", written by Dr. C. C. Miller. It tells where to keep 

 honey, how to liquefy it, etc. The last part is devoted to 

 " Honey-Cooking Recipes " and " Remedies Using Honey ". 

 It should be widely circulated by those selling honey. The 

 more the people are educated on the value and uses of honey 

 the more honey they will buy. 



Prices, prepaid — Sample copy for a two-cent stamp ; SO 

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