1901 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE). 



981 



white capping-s, there has been an unusual 

 crop of slanders in the papers concerning- 

 the honej' business. The result of this is 

 that the bee-keepingf industry has been 

 damagfed to the extent of a good man^' thou- 

 sand dollars. We have sent every paper 

 publishing such stuif a respectful protest, 

 telling them the facts and sending a copy 

 of our SlOOO reward card,* to the effect that 

 we will pay that much to any one furnishing 

 proof that comb honey is successfully man- 

 ufactured, and so perfect an imitation that 

 it can not be detected from the genuine. 

 We have made our replies in such a way 

 that it will be eas3' for them to back down 

 if they will. The editor of the A)ucrican 

 Bee Journal and of the Modern Faini and 

 Busy Bee, I note, are also engaged in the 

 same work. 



It is the duty of every bee-keeper who 

 sees such false reports to answer them at 

 once. The refutation should be couched in 

 respectful language, and should be accom- 

 panied with proof or !?1000 reward offer. 



I shall be gladtobelievethatCommissioner 

 Jones did not utter the foolish statements 

 that are imputed to him. I am also pleased 

 to learn that, so far as he is concerned, 

 he is probably quite willing to have all 

 such statements corrected providing the pa- 

 pers will print his denial. At the Chicago 

 convention recently, a committee consisting 

 of Geo. W. York, C. P. Dadant, and Dr. C. 

 Miller was appointed. But our subscribers 

 must not expect these gentlemen to do all 

 the work of answering these canards. A 

 bee-keeper in his own localitj^ has more in- 

 fluence — much more — than an outsider hun- 

 dreds of miles away. 



CANDIED HONFA' — "EDUCATING" THE 

 PUBLIC. 



In a letter recently received from R. C. 

 Aikin, of Loveland, Col., he writes that he 

 put up over 20,000 lbs. of honey in lard- 

 pails, let it candy, and that now there is 

 less than a fourth of it left, or a total of 

 16,000 lbs. of candied honey sold in three 

 months. He is now buj^ing more extracted, 

 and proposes to put it in paper bags, just 

 "to save money and to head off the tin 

 trust," as he says. This goes to show 

 what can be accomplished in one's own lo- 

 cality by educating the consumers. In the 

 East thejr have been taught to call for ex- 

 tracted, not candied. It inaj' be well, in 

 view' of the large amount of the glucosed 

 product on the market in jelly-tumblers, 

 with a little piece of dry comb in it, to ed- 

 ucate our consumers to the use of candied 

 honey. Just imagine, if you please, the 

 glucose people trying to make their product 

 candy solid. If the consumers of the whole 

 United States were "educated," or made 

 to understand that our product in the gran- 

 ulated form of a certain amount of consis- 

 tency was absolutely pure, they would buy 

 honey in that shape and give the glucosed 



*We will furnish 81000 reward cards free for this 

 purpose. 



jelly-tumbler the go-by. There, now, I do 

 not mean to advocate that we of the East 

 should put out candied honey exclusively. 

 Oh, no! but I only desire to show that, 

 where a locality is "educated" to the use 

 of honey in this form, it would buy quanti- 

 ties and quantities of it, as well as clear 

 extracted, because it would know it was 

 getting- pure honey. 



SQUARE VERSUS TALI. SECTIONS. 



The demand for the tall is certainly in- 

 creasing. Already in several markets it 

 is outselling the square shape. A short 

 time ago I picked out two fancy plain sec- 

 tions from our stock, one of each type, pho- 

 tog-raphed them, and here is the result. 



They are both equally well filled, and weigh 

 the same. One section is lvsX4X5 inches; 

 the other one, 1'2X4'4 square. While the 

 figures above show an actual difference in 

 thickness the appearance does not. Now, 

 then, which box looks to be the larger of the 

 two? If you were the consumer, and the 

 same price were charged for each, which 

 one would you take? 



It costs the producer no more to produce 

 one than the other. Many grocers find that 

 the tall ones are taken in preference, and 

 have been obliged to advance the price a 

 cent or two, so that in some localities the 

 tall box brings a higher price. 



Now, please do not understand me as 

 savdng that this applies to all localities, 

 for I know it does not; but many a bee- 

 keeper would do well to produce the two 

 kinds and let them stand on their merits on 

 the market. 



PROPOSED FOUL-BROOD LEGISLATION FOR 

 NEW JERSEY AND THE STATE OF MAINE. 



Elsewhere I have referred to the fact 

 that an effort will be made to get a foul- 

 brood law passed in New Jersey. Black 

 and foul brood have crept over into that lit- 

 tle State, and some of the bee-men there are 

 beginning to realize that something must be 

 done. The Steite is small, and an inspect- 

 or's expenses would be comparatively light. 

 While an appropriation of $500 would be 

 enough for Wisconsin, $100 or $200 would 

 do for New Jersey. 



Mr. George N. Wanser wrote me, asking 

 for suggestions. In reply I told him it was 



