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A Condensed View of Current 

 Bee Writings. 



E. E. HASTY. 



VTJHOSE grading rules are now making a 

 T stir all around the canap. There seems 

 to be three parties in the struggle. First 

 there is the large and respectable Pandora- 

 cratic party that wants everything provided 

 for and put in in black and white. Next is 

 the Opposition party, mainly given to op- 

 posing the Pandoracrats, and anxious for 

 very short and simple rules. And third 

 comes the Locofoxo party, sleek and sly, 

 and putting a quiet paw in the affairs of 

 both the other parties in preference to 

 putting out a platform of their own. They 

 want grades not for convenience, nor for 

 any honest purpose whatever. They want 

 grades as a means of making the consumer 

 think he is getting the best honey there is, 

 when he is really getting second or third 

 quality. Or. perchance, (no worse, but more 

 execrated) the Locofoxo wants grades ar- 

 ranged to help him make returns one or two 

 grades lower than he really sells at. Looks 

 to me that the Locofoxos have had things 

 far too much in their own way heretofore. 

 At the risk of being a man without a party 

 or a country, I would implore the brethren, 

 in arranging grades and rules, to make them 

 simply and transparently truthful. It isn't 

 truth nor honeMy to call the third grade No 

 1. And the real obj ct of such nnveracity is 

 to enable the retailer to say, with unctious 

 voice and smiling face, "Here, Mrs. B., is 

 some delicious honey which is strictly No. 1. 

 I selected it myself with tons at my hand to 

 choose from," when he selected pretty nearly 

 the poorest there was. It isn't truth to grade 

 the bulk of an ordinary crop as fancy. 

 That's not what language is for. Let's go 

 for such til)s with a sharp stick— collectively 

 if we can, individually if we must. I believe 

 there are left in the United States Israel 

 7.000 men (not all bee keepers, I fear) who 

 cannot look upon a self evident lie without 

 eager plotting and planning for some way 

 to wreck it. Let No. 1 be so described as to 

 embrace the bulk of an ordinary good crop. 

 Have as many lower grades as the brethren 

 want: but let them be dearly and frankly 

 named and described. Have a " fancy " if 

 you want it. but don't lean against a board 

 Mith " fool " freshly painted on it. by trying 



