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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Feb. 21, 1901. 



For instance, you take maple syrup ; it is worth about $1.40 

 a gallon ; glucose is worth from 40 to 50 cents, and so on all 

 along the line, and by compelling them to label it just what 

 it is, it gives the maple syrup manufacturer a show, whereas 

 heretofore he has had none, and they have pretty nearly 

 driven the maple syrup manufacturer out of the market ; 

 but from this time on, he is going to have his inning." 



As I said, we want to uphold the very best article ; that 

 is one reason why this law was instituted, so that the con- 

 sumer may know exactly what he is getting, and pay for 

 ■what he gets. 



Excuse me, your secretary. Dr. Mason, notified me that 

 we were limited to five minutes. If I exceed the time, you 

 •will " call me down ;" but I heard him say this evening 

 what a nice, noble band this was. What was it he said ? 

 He had not heard a profane word, had not seen any one 

 smoke nor chew tobacco, nor take a drink. Well, how, I can 

 understand that. If there is anything that ought to lift 

 one above the plane of all these common, grovelling things 

 of earth, it is pure honey ; it is the cause that you are en- 

 gaged in, and others seeing your good works in these lower 

 walks of life — the glucose fellows and so forth — will, after 

 awhile, get some inspiration and quit their business and go 

 into it right, like you are doing, and sail under proper col- 

 ors. 



This Commission, in all seriousness, this Pure- 

 Food Commission is to let the people know just exactly 

 what they are getting, and when we do that there is no mis- 

 take, and we are helping you out. You are the bee-keepers' 

 association ; whenever the glucose, the maple syrups, or 

 other products that come in competition with yours — when- 

 ever they are compelled to label their goods just what they 

 are, then the honey man has his innings, and he has a fair 

 show, and that is the exact object, as I understand it, this 

 Commission is trying to attain. 



In conclusion, I want to say to you that we have a very 

 line laboratory ; we are located at 1623 Manhattan Build- 

 ing ; Dr. Eaton, our State Analyst, has charge of it, and 

 ,you are invited, one and all, to come and look in upon us. 

 We have said to the other retail associations and manufac- 

 turers of the State of Illinois, whenever you find any one 

 coming in competition with your business, that is manufac- 

 turing any product that is not what it represents itself to 

 be, you notify this commission. We will send an inspector 

 and inspect them, and then we will do the next thing — we 

 will bring the strong arm of the law to bear upon them. 

 Whenever we find from any reputablf citizen that any one 

 is violating the law by selling or manufacturing any article 

 for other than what it really is, and palming it oif for some- 

 thing that is inferior, all you have to do is to report that, 

 and we will at once send an inspector, and we will seize the 

 fellow and bring him up to the captain's desk, and there 

 make him pay tribute to Ca?sar. [Applause]. So that if 

 any one in your town, and you know it — if you live in Illi- 

 nois — is violating this law, is running his business contrary 

 to it, it is your fault if he does it ; for we stand here irady, 

 and ivilling, and anxious, for it is our duty, and we are paid 

 for it, to see that the law is enforced all over this State. If 

 it can be done here in Illinois, it can be done in every other 

 State in the Union. 



Another thing I might say while on this subject. 

 Last October I had the pleasure of meeting with the Na- 

 tional Commissioners' Association of all the States here at 

 the Palmer House, and there a committee on rules was ap- 

 pointed to try to get rules and regulations that would apply 

 alike to all the States — rulings upon the law ; and then an- 

 other committee to formulate a law, so that each and every 

 State might have the same law. Up to this time, each State 

 has had its own law, and its own rulings, and it naturally 

 has made a great deal of trouble, and I think in the next 

 few months we can obviate a good deal of that. Of course 

 the law can't be changed until the respective legislatures of 

 the different States meet and pass new laws — a new law that 

 may be suggested by this committee. We are trying to ar- 

 range so that every State can work in harmony, and when 

 the producers of honey in one State produce honey, they 

 know that the label that is put upon it will go into every 

 State in the Union, as well as every other food product. 

 We are trying to help out in the interest of pure food, and 

 especially pure honey ; for we all believe in that, even if 

 the glucose man won't say a word against good honey. I 

 want you to go ahead in the good work you are in, and 

 whenever you see in Illinois a man that is imposing upon 

 your rights, by making an inferior article, that does not 

 come up to the law, if you will just report him, he will sud- 

 denly cease to do business, or else he will conform to the 

 law. A. H. Jones. 



Dr. Mason — It might be a pleasure to the Honorable ' 

 Commissioner to know that this Association has started 

 something in the same line of which he has been speaking. 

 We have to-day appointed a committee for the purpose of 

 taking into consideration this very work of formulating 

 and suggesting to the legislatures of the different States 

 some way by which we all might work in accord under 

 about the same kind of rulings. We are glad to learn that 

 others are working in the same line. 



Mr. Jones — It has been my pleasure in the past to be 

 connected with one of the State Institutions — the State 

 Normal for Eastern Illinois — formerly located at Charles- 

 ton. We have here this evening one of the faculty ; I have 

 known him — I don't want to say for how many years, or 

 some of the ladies here, as well as the gentlemen, might 

 think he and I are getting old. I will say I have known 

 him for 25 years, and he has a fine, delightful voice, and I 

 don't know of any one who likes to listen to it better than I 

 do. He is great on recitations, and I think this evening he 

 will favor us with one of his choice recitations. Ladies 

 and gentlemen, I have the pleasure of introducing to you 

 Prof. Brownlee, of the Eastern Normal. 



Prof. Brownlee — Ladies and Gentlemen: — Let me say, 

 I think I should not have been here if I had thought on this 

 warm evening I would have been called upon. I came to 

 hear the honeyed eloquence of my friend on this occasion, 

 and not to say anything myself. This is " the most un- 

 kindest cut of all," I think. He promist me I should have 

 nothing to do, if I would come, but look at some beautiful 

 pictures thrown upon a screen, and I suspect at that very 

 moment he had in mind introducing me to the audience. 

 However, I am willing, if I can entertain you a little. I am 

 here this week attending a great soldiers' convention. One 

 of the things that lam very proud of is that I was a soldier 

 in the Great War. [Applause]. On the right side, too. I 

 think both sides were honest, t)ut one side only was right. 

 I was on the right side, the side we are all on now, and so if 

 you will permit me, I will choose a selection bearing upon 

 that great struggle. 



Prof. Brownlee then recited, " Why the Old Man Would 

 Not Sell the Farm." 



Pres. Root — I am sure we are greatly indebted to Prof. 

 Brownlee and the representatives of the Pure-Food Com- 

 mission of Illinois, for calling upon us and so pleasantly en- 

 tertaining us this evening. 



A vote of thanks was then unanimously extended to 

 them. 



(Continued next week.) 



^ The Afterthought. ^ | 



The "Old Reliable" seen thru New and Unreliable Glasses. 

 By E. E. HASTY, Richards, Ohio. 



THRBB KINDS OF HONBY IN ONE APIARY. 



It looks business to see three kinds of honey reported 

 from an apiary instead of two — Extracted 11,900 pounds ; 

 bulk comb 7,800 pounds ; section honey, 1,46+ pounds. And, 



ye furiously and completely reformed brethren, what are 

 you going to do about it? O. P. Hyde & Son, page 44. 



BUJIBLE-BEES IN WINTER. 



If I understand Mr. S. T. Pettit rightly, he has found 

 in winter some kinds of bumble-bees, not all the species. 

 Well, that's a good beginning — in dry cavities drifted full 

 of leaves under big, old logs. If I ever found any I just 

 went and forgot about it. Still, I guess there's nothing 

 mysterious in the case. A thousand species of insects we 

 seldom see in winter nevertheless get thru somehow. Pre- 

 sumably brood-rearing ceases early in a bumble-bee's nest ; 

 the slender stock of stores gets eaten up ; then each bee for 

 herself saj-s, "What is home without a baby" — and with- 

 out any call to dinner ? And thereupon she wanders abroad. 



1 suppose these wanderers forage and bask in the sunshine 

 when it is pleasant, and hunt the warmest place they can 

 find to crawl into when night approaches — not to come out 

 for a week unless weather is fine — and eventually weather- 

 bound until spring, providing they don't get water-soakt 

 and frozen up bej'ond restoration before that time. Page 

 44. 



