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GEORGE W. YORK, Editor 



CHICAGO, ILL., FEBRUARY, 1908 



VoL XLVni— No, 2 



:i€oHa( ^ofcs 

 and Commenfs 



Let Glucose Be Labeled Glucose 



The name "glucose" is one not in good 

 odor among the consuming public. The 

 manufacturers of the stuff are well 

 aware of this, and since the agitation 

 of the pure-food question have styled 

 it "corn syrup." The great glucose- 

 manufacturing concern has changed its 

 name to "Corn Products Co." The 

 U. S. Chemist, Dr. W. H. Wiley, and 

 members of the Pure-Food Board have 

 ruled that glucose must appear under 

 its true label, and the glucose crowd 

 are making the most strenuous efforts 

 to have this ruling reversed. 



Let justice be done to glucose. If 

 people want to buy it, the manufactur- 

 ers ought to have the right to sell it; 

 but when people buy it they should 

 know that they are buying glucose, and 

 not something that they suppose to be 

 different, under the name of corn syrup. 

 Gleanings has this to say on the sub- 

 ject: 



"Dr. Wiley and his associates have 

 stood for pure food, and have all along 

 been strenuous in insisting that all food 

 stuffs be so labeled as to convey no de- 

 ception. The general public does not 

 know that corn syrup, so called, is glu- 

 cose ; and to allow this change of name 

 would be the grossest kind of decep- 

 tion — a thing that would be entirely 

 out of harmony with the provisions of 

 the national pure-food law under which 

 Dr. Wiley and his associates are work- 

 ing. 



"The glucose interests are alarmed, 

 and they have good reason to be; for 

 neither President Roosevelt nor Secre- 

 tary Wilson has intimated that either 

 one of them proposes to reverse the de- 

 cision of their subordinates. They 

 have simply signified their willingness 



to hear argument pro and con; and 

 therefore it meanp that, unless bee- 

 keepers and all producers of honest 

 pure cane syrups and sugars register 

 a mighty protest, at once, against mak- 

 ing any change, there is danger that 

 the decision of the pure-food commis- 

 sioners may be reversed. 



"We are sure that the President, 

 provided the full facts are put before 

 him, will rule in the interests of the 

 people and not in favor of private cor- 

 porations and small retailers whose 

 opinions would be biased by the prof- 

 its arising from the sale of so-called 

 corn syrups. 



"We urge every bee-keeper, as soon 

 as he reads this, to write immediately 

 a concise letter to Dr. Harvey W. 

 Wiley, of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, Washington, D. C, commending 

 the course he and his associates have 

 taken in ruling against the use of the 

 words "corn syrup" for a product 

 known as glucose. A short but ex- 

 pressive letter should be addressed to 

 Secretary Wilson, Secretary of Agri- 

 culture, and to President Roosevelt, 

 Washington, D. C, requesting both to 

 sustain the action of the Pure-Food 

 Board in placing a ban on corn syr- 

 up." 



It certainly can do no harm, and it 

 may do no little good, to write as thus 

 indicated. 



Varying Prices for Honey 



There seems to be less stability in 

 prices in Australia than in this country. 

 The Commonwealth Bee - Keeper says 

 that in 1895 honey was stacked up in 

 Melbourne in thousands of tins, waiting 

 buyers at $1.25 to $2.50 per tin ; yet 5 

 years later honey brought $6.25 per tin. 



If a "tin" means a 60-pound can, that 

 means the lowest price was about 2 cents 

 a pound and the highest 10 cents. In 

 any case, there was a rise in 5 years 

 that made the price 2j^ to s times as 

 much. Such variation is rather unset- 

 tling, but bee-keepers would not likely 

 object providing the variation were al- 

 ways on the upward grade. 



Is Bee-Keeping Profitable? 



Replying to this question. The Com- 

 monwealth Bee-Keeper (Australia), page 

 80, says that in a first-class honey coun- 

 try bee-keeping is profitable so long as 

 extracted honey brings 5 to 554 cents a 

 pound. This conclusion seems to be 

 based on the fact that in that country 

 a few leading bee-keepers sometimes 

 produce 30 to 40 tons, while a great 

 many produce 10 to 20 tons. The edi- 

 tor thinks the man who produces less 

 than 8 tons will not consider bee-keep- 

 ing profitable with honey at 5 cents. 



Ventilation of Hives in the Cellar. 



Provision should be made for ventila- 

 tion of each hive, and it does not matter 

 so much just how that ventilation is ob- 

 tained. In the days of box-hives the 

 proper thing was to turn the hive up- 

 side down, leaving the bottom (now the 

 top) entirely open. At the present day 

 some leave the bottom entirely open by 

 taking away the bottom-board, but the 

 movable-frame hive is not turned upside 

 down. Others secure just as good ven- 

 tilation by leaving the bottom-board on 

 with quite a contracted entrance, but 

 this lack of ventilation below is made up 

 by having ventilation above, the cover 

 being slightly raised so as to leave a 

 crack, or slid forward to leave a crack 

 of Ys to % inch at the back. No doubt 

 it would be all right to have the hive 

 entirely open at the top and entirely 

 closed at the bottom, for this would be 

 practically the same as the old plan of 

 turning box-hives upside down ; only it 

 would not be generally convenient to 

 have the hive entirely uncovered, es- 

 pecially where hives are to be piled up. 

 If hives are open only at the bottom or 

 top, they cannot probably be too open. 

 But the matter might easily be overdone 

 if there be opening both at top and bot- 

 tom, especially if the temperature in the 



