Dec. 29, 1904. 



TH£ AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



877 



tional legislation, to put us in closer touch llian vvc have 

 been with the several States and the government of the 

 United States. When you look over this vast country and 

 know that we have lots to learn, lots of land undeveloped, 

 you can see what we can do for the bee-keeping world. 

 Take California, Utah, Texas, Idaho and Colorado ; there 

 are thousands of acres of land there today under the irrigat- 

 ing system that will support tens of thousands of families. 

 We can be bee-keepers there and produce the finest honey 

 known on the face of the earth. Those of you who are in 

 the industry do not think you can ever produce too much 

 honey because the population is increasing, and they need 

 more of the sweetness through life. I want to say to you 

 with irrigation that there will be tens of thousands of acres 

 of land thrown open to the public within a few years, and, 

 as Horace Greelev said in his younger days, "Young man, go 

 west,'' I advise many of you who have not got suitable loca- 

 tions to go west to'the different sections. 



To give )'ou an idea, and to get in your mind's eye that 

 which ail should know, take my own section, 20 years ago the 

 Indians were taken from the Reservation on the west of 

 Colorado, and today we are shipping from that county 1,400 

 car-loads of fruit. We have shipped from that county ten 

 car-loads of beautiful honey. Go on to California, look at 

 the resources there ; go into Texas, they have lots of un- 

 developed country, and if you are not satisfied with your lot, 

 migrate west, and I know there will be something good there 

 for you. 



Now, we are here for on6 purpose, for the betterment 

 of the bee-keeping fraternity of the United States. We 

 want to mingle together; we want the best thought brought 

 forward here, not in a selfish way, but so that it will benefit 

 everyone w'ho is in the organization. We want you also 

 to interest j'our neighbors; get them to join this Associa- 

 tion ; and when you take into consideration that this indus- 

 try produces $25,000,000 worth of honey a year, and that 

 last year the honey product of the nation would have filled 

 a train of cars 25 miles long, you then can know what a great 

 industry it is. Some think it is an insignificant matter. The 

 press has not even taken notice of us as they have of some 

 minor matters that have come here in the way of con- 

 gresses. But when we put before them the great industry 

 we are' trying to follow they then will give us more credit 

 than at present. 



If any of you in your hearts have any selfish feeling, if 

 there is any clique in this convention to try to control any- 

 thing, pass it to one side. You come here as a lot of 

 brothers and sisters. If I am not a proper officer turn me 

 down, and put someone else in ; or if the other officers here 

 are not the kind that you want to represent you, do your 

 duty. Do not allow an}' clique of men here who in any way 

 will try to run }'OU. Think for yourselves. It is an age 

 when all men should think. It is an age in which we are 

 getting more gray matter in the tops of men's heads than 

 in the past; it is an age that is the greatest in the history 

 of the world, and as bee-people I hope this will be one of the 

 greatest conventions that has ever been held in the history 

 of the United States or the world, and that it may go out 

 when we adjourn that we have had one of the best con- 

 ventions ever held. Jas. U. Harris. 



MISLEADING NEWSPAPER REPORTS ABOUT COMB HONEY. 



Mr. Abbott presented the report of the special cornmit- 

 tee' on so-called comb honey manufactured by machinery, 

 as follows : 



We, your committee, to whom was referred the resolu- 

 tion on adulterated comb honey, beg leave to report as fol- 

 lows : 



In view of the oft-repeated statement in the public press 

 that comb honey is made and capped over by machinery, be "it 

 Resohcd, That the " National Bee-Keepers' .Association 

 will forfeit the sum of $1,000 to any party or parties who will 

 furnish beyond successful contradiction evidence that said 

 statement is true, and produce as part of such evidence two 

 pounds or more of such comb honey that has been manufac- 

 tured without the use of bees in any way, with sufficient 

 skill to deceive ordinary honey-e.xperts. 



E. T. Abbott, 

 Ellis E. Pressler, 

 E. Kretchner, 

 M. A. Gill, 



Committee. 



Mr. Pressler on liehalf of the press committee read an 

 article from the St. Louis Republican which had appeared 

 in the morning issue showing an entirely wrong construc- 



tion had been placed upon the report furnished by the Press 

 Committee. It would appear from the report as published 

 that half the members present at the convention believed that 

 coml) honey could be manufactured. 



Mr. Abbott stated that the report had been written out 

 correctly by the committee, and had been given over the 

 telephone, but that the press people did not seem to be able 

 to understand plain English. He stated the Committee 

 would go in person to the newspaper offices, when he thought 

 they could be made to understand. 



committee on the adulteration of honey. 



Dr. Bohrer — I have a motion that on first sight might 

 seem to conflict with some of the resolutions that have been 

 adopted, but I hardly think so. I have a resolution that calls 

 not only for a National legislative committee in this body but 

 from all the States. It will be a massive committee but they 

 will each have their respective work. I will read the pre- 

 amble of the resolution which is as follows : 



Whereas, The Adulteration of honey, by combining it with 

 glucose, and selling the same under the label of honey has 

 become so common throughout the country, that a large per 

 cent of the people, who would purchase and use honey but 

 for the uncertainty of being able to purchase unadulterated 

 nectar; and. 



Whereas, Such adulteration of honey renders it unwhole- 

 some as food, while pure and unadulterated nectar is un- 

 doubtedly the most wholesome liquid sweet known among the 

 most civilized people of the whole world ; and, 



Whereas, The sale of adulterated honey under the label 

 of pure honey, bears upon its receptacle a falsehood, and is a 

 stain seriously detrimental to the pursuit of apiculture; and, 

 Whereas, The absence of full intelligence, in apicultural 

 science, in connection with gross and inexcusable neglect, 

 among bee-owners, is causing foul brood to be harbored by 

 bee-keepers in almost if not all of the States and in Canada, to 

 an extent that cannot be otherwise than the cause of serious 

 loss among bee-keepers who depend upon the pursuit of api- 

 culture for an income and support to themselves and those 

 depending upon them, be it therefore 



Resolved, That we, the bee-keepers of North America, 

 in National Convention assembled, hereby instruct the Presi- 

 dent of the National Association of bee-keepers, with the as- 

 sistance of the members from the respective States, to appoint 

 two persons from each State and the Dominion of Canada, 

 who shall organize themselves into a legislative committee, 

 and as members of such committee, it shall be their duty to 

 confer with the bee-keepers of their respective States, and 

 urge them to see the members of the House and Senate m 

 each State, and ask them to enact a law in each State (where 

 such law does not already exist), imposing a penalty upon any 

 and all persons found adulterating honey with glucose or other , 

 liquid sweets, and labeling and selling or exposmg the same 

 to sale; and also against keeping bees afifected with foul 

 brood, knowingly; and that will authorize and require such 

 diseased bees, to be either cured of the disease or require them 

 to be completely destroyed together, with everything about 

 the apiary where they are kept, that is not thoroughly and 

 effectively disinfected. 



Dr Bohrer— I move the adoption of the resolution. I did 

 not formulate this resolution to provoke a lengthy discussion, 

 and rather than have that I would withdraw it. 



Dr. Miller— In order to have this matter properly disposed 

 of there should be a committee to whom it be referred and I 

 move the appointment of a committee of five on the resolu- 

 tion. [Carried] 



The president appointed the following as a committee on 

 resolutions: Messrs. Hutchinson, Poppleton, Smith, Hagood 



and Cogshall. .... , , ., • x- ^u ,. 



Mr France— It mav possibly be in order at this time that 

 the resolution as oflfere'd by Mr. Abbott should come before 

 this Committee for consideration. It is one of the best tea- 

 tures we have had so far in the convention, and if that, 

 as one of the shots fired out of the gun of the National Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, could be put in a little leaflet so that 

 the members of the Association could have it, it would eradi- 

 cate this cry about adulterated honey faster than anything 

 else and I would like that either I or some one connected 

 witli the Association, should have the privilege of mailing that 



to the members. . . . „ x, ■ , ^ ^■ 



Mr Abbott moved, seconded by Dr. Bohrer, that his reso- 

 lution be attached to the circular which the Board had been 

 requested to furnish for distribution. [Carried.] 

 I Mr. Stilson (Neb.)— Mr. President, in the address which 



