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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



JrLY 



"they gather this fungus with great apparent 

 greed." Mr. H. asks if there is any clanger from its 

 becoming a substitute for pollen. I answer him, 

 that I should have no fears. When Dr. Beal and I 

 have been examining the ingesta of bees we have 

 more than once noticed spore-like bodies in the in- 

 testines of the bees. Here we have positive proof 

 that bees come by such spores legitimately. Bees 

 appreciate a good thing when they see it, and care 

 little where they get their albuminous food, wheth- 

 er from the anthers of flowers, the spore-cases of 

 fungi, or the meal-bag. Every good wholesome al- 

 buminoid is appropriated with c(iual eagerness, if 

 in a dustlikc form suitable for transportation, ac- 

 cording to the rules and requirements of bee-com- 

 merce. Wc see, then, that the old maxim is sus- 

 tained; for this fungus, while it drinks up the life 

 of the plants, yields up life-giving food to the bees. 

 Bee-bread— plant-poison. 



Prof. L. H. Bailey informs me that the scientiBc 

 name of the orange-rust of the blackberry and rasp- 

 berry is Crt'o/Hfl luminatum. A.J.Cook. 



Agricultural College, Mich., June, 1885. 



This matter has been mentioned before, 

 friend C, if I am not mistaken, in some of 

 our bee-journals. The bees store the sub- 

 stance just as they do pollen, and it increas- 

 es brood - rearing enormously. I never 

 heard of its doing any hurt in the bee-hives, 

 for the bpes understand their business of 

 preserving food a little better, if any thing, 

 than the managers of refrigerator cars, and 

 other like institutions. Some years ago I 

 mentioned bees making some use of a quan- 

 tity of mites that they found on the shelves 

 of a cheese-factory. Under the microscope 

 the dust wasaniass of wriggling insects; 

 but the bees packed them on their legs, and 

 carried them home all the same. 



FALSE STATEMENTS IN REGARD TO THE HON- 

 EY BUSINESS or OUR COUNTRY. 



er. We never know what blessings are in store for 

 us, and doubtless before long we will hear more of 

 the benelits to be derived from cheap food. 



That is the talk, friend L. Just send 

 along all such notices. But, please give the 

 name of your county paper ; also please 

 show the editor the article on page 410, in 

 last month's issue, and ;isk him if he won't 

 be so good. as to coriect the tendency of his 

 little item, headed "SecnUs of the Trade."' 

 His comments seem to be in a sort of a 

 strain of pleasantry, as if he had no faith in 

 such stories; but after all, such iionis art- 

 harmful, and in all probability he does not 

 Avant to harm anybody, even by implication. 



As a protection to our 

 this department to publ 

 sist in publishing false 

 honey which we as bti 

 any paper will co'—i-rt il 

 ogy. the name wi 1 l.c- d 

 mailed to the edit.. r ..r an \ ).,i|..r rivjiu 

 ments, with a writtin pi ..ic>t, bet. .it th 

 given. After the Ivjist- o! :i suital 1- lin 

 corrected we will keep a standing notio 



this class of falteho'ods. 



i|.nitr |i..|. Illation, we propose in 

 II .111.^ .1 newspapers that per- 

 il ni- ill icirard to the purity of 

 1- i.iil ..II the market. When 

 1.1 l.iibli.ly. ^vithsllitabI,■a^l..l- 

 .L A c.i.v ..t this articlr. will be 



MORE ABOUT THE SOUIl APPLE-PARINGS. 



SERE is an article clipped from our county pa- 

 per. I don't put any confidence in it, but it 

 hurts our business to have the honey-con- 

 sumers think they are buying glucose or 

 some other poor stuff. I wrote the editor 

 a line on it. What do you think of it? 



A. W. LiNDSEY. 



West Brooklyn. Pa., June 8, 188.5. 



SECRETS OK THE TRADE. 



Well may it be said, that as we live wo Icnrn. The 

 discussion of the canned-goods subject has brought 

 out some curious secrets of the trade. For example, 

 it is learned that the "canners" sell the cores and 

 parings of apples to the makers of so called jellies, 

 who, by the aid of different essences, turn out sub- 

 stances which are beautifully labeled as popular 

 gelatinous products. When the parings, etc., be- 

 come too decomposed to be used for jellies, they 

 are sold to the manufacturers of "straiaed honey;" 

 and it is asserted that none of the stuff so designat- 

 ed found in the market contains any honey whatev- 



Please find part of newspaper on adulteration of 

 honej-, as you request in Gleanings. 

 Harpcrsville, N. Y. George Rich.vrds. 



adulteration oe food; the extent to which 



it is practiced brought to the gover- 



n<)r's attention. 



Albany correspondent N. Y. Tribune. 



"I have been astonished lately at the extent of 

 the adulteration of food," said Governor Hill, 

 glancing over the canned-goods bill a few days ago. 

 " It would seem," he continued, "that everything 

 we eat is adulterated. In hearing testimony about 

 this canned-goods bill, for instance, all kinds of ira- 

 jiosture and deceit of customers were brought to 

 my attcntiuii. This adulteration of groceries is be- 

 cdininga national evil; one that we shall have to 

 adojit severe measures to check. France is an elysi- 

 um for those who desire to buy jiure articles when 

 they go to the grocery. The French government 

 have taken e.vtraordinary steps to protect the peo- 

 ple— steps that perhaps could not be taken in this 

 country, but the object. has been accomplished. 

 When you bu.v pepper in France, you know you are 

 getting pepper, and not some weak adulteration of 

 it; and so it is with all other articles. 



"One of the measures of the French government 

 to check adulteration which have proved success- 

 ful, is a law which compels every grocer, when con- 

 victed of the crime, to place a large placard in his 

 store-window, and keep it there for a .veiir, with 

 the words inscribed upon it, 'Convicted of adul- 

 teration.' Some curious facts were revealed by the 

 packers of canned goods in private conversation, 

 • You would not think the parings and cores of ap- 

 ples of any use, would you?' said one of the pack- 

 ers to a friend. 



" He then continued ; ' Well, a fruit-packing estab- 

 lishment makes use of everything; like the pork- 

 packing factories, which save every thing except 

 the iiig's urunt. When wc are packing and drying 

 apples we ha\ c ton.s and tons of jiarings and cores. 

 These wc sell t(i the makers of jelly. All kinds of 

 jellies are made of the material. You can not buy 

 real currant jelly in the groceries. Every bit of it 

 is apple, with some essence in it. But that is not 

 the sole use of apple-parings. Occasionally we keep 

 them so long that they can not be converted into 

 jelly. Then we sell them to the makers of strained 

 honey. All the strained honey that you see in the 

 market is made of it— there isn't a bit of honey 

 about it.' "—Dcmocmtic Leader, Dingliamtoti, N. Y. 



Thank you, friend 11. There is one good 

 thing in the clipping you send us, and that 

 is, about making grocers keep a placard in 

 their windows. In our country, tiie grocer 

 might as well put up his shutters and stop 

 biisiii('!-s as to do that. Following out the 

 same thought, why would it not be an excel- 

 lent idea to compel newspapers to keep a 

 placard in large type, in a prominent place 

 in their columns? Suppose we have a pla- 

 card reading soniething like this: 



"convicted ok PITHLISIIING SLANUEUOUS 

 STATEMENTS." 



The above communication, some way or 

 other, seems to mix up the (Governor's name 

 with this sour-apple-skin fraud. Now, Mr. 



