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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 15. 



law— while we fetter him hand and foot, so long 

 as his purpose is evil, may God help us to do it 

 as does the man in that marble picture. He is 

 using the bones and muscles that God gavelhim. 

 to conquer the brute nature of the savage; and 

 then he looks into the face of the poor ignorant, 

 untutored child of the forest, and teaches him 

 that wonderful truth, with all its grandeur and 

 beauty, "Love ye your enemies; do good to 

 them that hate you." 



Butter and honey shaH he eat, tliat lie may know to refuse 

 the evil, and choose the good.— Isaiah 7: 15. 



On account of our trip to Washington, the 

 promised additional notes from New Orleans 

 will have to be omitted for the present. 



We would call especial attention to the val- 

 uable article by Mr. P. J. Baldensperger, on 

 page 53. It will be followed by several others 

 equally good. 



GOOD FOK FARMEKS. 



Yor know that I am always giad to see the 

 prices of any thing that farmers produce go up. 

 Just now I am glad because pork has gone up 

 to 7H cts. Some may urge that it may come 

 hard on many poor people because they have to 

 pay more. Yes. that is true; but when farm 

 products get so high that poor people find it 

 hard to pay for these things, then they can go 

 out into the country, and occupy some of these 

 deserted farms and raise their own pork. See? 



THE WEATHER XJP TO .JAN. 13. 



For the past few days we have had the cold- 

 est weather we have had in several years; and 

 should it continue many more days, we fear the 

 little pets outdoors will not have a cliance to 

 turn over and get to a fresh supply of honey; 

 for we have observed that, sometimes dur- 

 ing a long stretch of cold weather, a few clus- 

 ters will eat away the honey all around them, 

 and finally starve because they do not or can 

 not move to where the honey is. But there 

 is one encouraging feature: The hives are near- 

 ly buried under the snow. 



DR. MILLER PRESIDENT OF THE NORTH AMERI- 

 CAN FOR 1893. 



At the last two conventions of the North 

 American, we have heard expressions on every 

 side from members, to the effect that Ur. Miller 

 should be the presiding officer when the meet- 

 ing assembles in Chicago at the World's Fair. 

 Almost every one acknowledges that he makes 

 the best presiding officer of any of the bee- 

 keepers; and there has been a feeling for three 

 or four years back, that the meeting at Chicago 

 would be the greatest and most important of 

 any convention in the history of the association; 

 and, of course, it was nothing more than nat- 

 ural that those present at the Washington meet- 

 ing should elect Dr. Miller as president for 1893. 

 Mr. Frank Benton was put in as secretary; Mr. 

 J. E. Crane as vice-president, and Mr. G. W. 

 York as ti'easurer. With such a quartette we 

 may hope for great things at the convention 

 which is to be held some time near the middle of 

 October, this year, at Chicago. Some may think 

 that we should divide the honors, and that, as 

 Dr. Miller has been president for two or three 



terms, some one else should have a chance. It 

 is not a question of conferring lionors, but it is 

 a question of getting the best man in order that 

 the best kind of convention may be assured, es- 

 pecially this year. 



A SCHEME FOR IMPORTING APIS DORSATA AND 

 APIS INDICA. 



It will be noticed in another column, that Mr. 

 Benton says that the Apis Indica are very 

 small bees— so small, indeed, that they might 

 be adapted to the small flora of our country, 

 without detriment to other bees. We saw 

 some dried specimens that were very beautiful; 

 and those who have a liking for five-banded 

 bees will take a great fancy to them. But we 

 were not interested particularly in their mark- 

 ings, but in their adaptability to small flora.; 

 and we have been wondering whether we did 

 not have some subscriber in India who could 

 procure for us these bees. We could furnish 

 mailing-cages that we feel sure would deliver 

 the bees to us alive and in good order; and is it 

 not barely possible that there are some among 

 our subscribers, especially among the mission- 

 aries, who could in a similar way, deliver to us 

 the Apis dorsatn f We feel quite sanguine 

 that, if bees can be secured by some subscriber 

 in their native land, we could send such cages 

 as would bring them safely to us. We are will- 

 ing to pay quite liberally for the bees, and 

 therefore solicit correspondence: and while we 

 do not anticipate that either the Apis Indica or 

 Ajjis dorsatn would be any great acquisition 

 from a practical standpoint, yet there are many 

 in this country who would like to study them 

 on account of their physiological differences. dg 



AMOUNT OF ADULTERATION, ACCORDING TO 

 THE CHEMISTS. 



Elsewhere in this issue. Prof. Wiley says 

 that nearly 45 per cent of the liquid honey on 

 the market was found to be adulterated; and 

 while we will admit that, under our silence, 

 adulteration has grown, yet it is very hard for 

 us to believe that so large a per cent of the 

 liquid hon&y found on the market has been 

 mixed with inferior ingredients. Mr. Muth's 

 honey was classed as adulterated. If, indeed, 

 it was, Mr. Muth was an innocent party. In 

 fact, he has been one of the most aggressive, in 

 the matter of fighting adulteration, of any bee- 

 keeper in our ranks. Being a honey-buyer and 

 a honey-seller, he has felt the evils of it, per- 

 haps, more than any one else; and while we 

 now give the chemists credit for competency 

 and honesty of purpo-e, yet it is very possible 

 that their methods will cause them to call a 

 few honeys impure that are really pure. For 

 instance, we know that, of the 53 samples sub- 

 mitted by Prof. Cook for analysis, at least three 

 pure honeys of extra fine quality were classed 

 with honey mixed with cane sugar. See Prof. 

 Cook's article, page 688, Sept. 15, 1893. We also 

 know (see Prof. Wiley's address, this issue) that 

 plant-louse nectar offers certain complications: 

 and we think, therefore, that a little of this 

 louse secretion in pure honey might throw them 

 off the track. But it should be observed, that 

 the chemists picked out all the glucose mix- 

 tures that Prof. Cook sent them, without a 

 single mistake. This is encouraging. 



THE WASHINGTON CONVENTION ON INCOR- 

 PORATION. 



Our readers will remember that a few of our 

 Canadian friends took umbrage becau,se the 

 bee-keepers on this side of the line thought it 

 good to have the N. A. B. K. A. incorporated 

 under the laws of the State of Illinois. One of 

 the prime movers in this protest was Mr. W. F. 

 Clarke, and in accordance with his former pub- 



