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why, they just crowded one another to get to it. He 

 couldn't weigh it out fast enough " O Mrs. Newrich ! 

 is not this delicious? " "Why is it, Mrs. Goldbug, 

 that we can not get such things in our markets? " " I 

 can taste the very aroma ot woods and wild flowers." 

 'No glucose and parafhne about this, " and so they 

 went on until he had sold his last pound. Now, these 

 are not ignorant people They are the very best that 

 we have — at least they are representative, and they 

 believe it. I can see no solution to the problem unless 

 the great dailies, the makers of public opinion, can 

 be induced to take the matter up, and editorially show 

 its glaring ab nrdity — either that or .send out the fool- 

 killer. H. 15 Jones. 



P. S.— Since writing this I am struck with my own 

 idea; and, to act upon it I will at once write to the 

 Exiiminer, of San Francisco, and ende.-ivor to enlist 

 th'=m on our side If they will take it up, all the 

 Hearst newspapers will do so. and that means New 

 York, Chicago, and San Francisco. Tho.se papers do 

 nothing in a half-hearted way, and what M<y under- 

 take to explain will l^e ventilated thoroughly. 



Arbuckle, Cal , Jan. 20 "h B. J. 



Our readers are respectfully requested 

 to keep up their campaign of education — 

 that is, of letter-writing, sending" articles 

 to local papers, and telling the truth about 

 their business, and showing that comb 

 honey is not manufactured and can not be. 



HOW TO CLEAN NEGATIVE GLASS. 



Mr, F. a. Salisbury, seeing the editori- 

 al on p. 58, Jan. 15, corrects me by saying 

 that my directions for cleaning negative 

 glass would not lead to very satisfactory 

 results, and then explains his method. 



Mr. Salisbury says that it is verysimple. 

 He uses a common wash-boiler, and places 

 in it two pails of water and a pound pack- 

 age of Babbitt's potash. After the water 

 comes to a slow boil, he is ready to place 

 the glass in. But inste^ld of immersing it 

 in bulk in every shape imaginable, it must 

 be placed on wooden racks so that the wa- 

 ter can get at both surfaces of each light of 

 glass. For that purpose he uses a pine 

 board 3 in. wide, and just long enough to 

 go inside of the wash-boiler. Into this he 

 drives 8-penny casing nails about % of an 

 inch apart, zigzag, the entire length, and 

 deep enough so they will stand up \}i inch- 

 es. See diagram. Wooden handles are 



that have appeared in the Indianapolis 

 News, a daily paper of wide circulation 

 and much influence. It not only published 

 Mr. Pouder's letters, but one from myself. 

 The result is, the readers of that paper are 

 probably pretty well advised by this time 

 that there is no such thing as manufactured 

 comb honey. Mr. Pouder, in speaking 

 about the condition of the market as the re- 

 sult of these comb-honey canards that have 

 been afloat, writes: 



The honey business is dull, and it can be attributed 

 to nothing but the newspaper .stories. We learn this 

 from conversation with those who come here for hon- 

 ey. Many ask if this is bee honey or machine-made 

 honey. (Jthers ask if this is pure comb honey or fed 

 honey. In one case I explained to a man that there 

 was no machine-made honey and he replied, " Well, I 

 don't know about that. I have just learned that I have 

 been eating manufactured eggs all winter." Another 

 man .said that he once knew of a place in Indianapo- 

 lis where they made comb honey by machinery. On 

 further inquiry he referred to my old shop in Walnut 

 Street, where I was located .some years ago. 



Walter S. Pouder. 



I am afraid that Mr. Pouder, when he 

 tells us that the "honey business is dull," 

 comes pretty near hitting the truth — espe- 

 cially when he attributes that dullness to 

 the lies that have been circulated. We find 

 in our business that the demand for ex- 

 tracted honey is good, while comb honey is 

 of rather slow sale. 



Before the onslaught of lies there was a 

 certain steady demand for comb honey. 

 Now, why is it that that demand seems to 

 have eased up just at a time when honey 

 ought to find a fairly good sale? I tell you, 

 brother bee-keepers, there are thousands — 

 yes, millions — of people who still believe 

 that the greater part of the comb honey on 

 the market is machine -made; yes, and a 

 few fools wl\o have been eating pickled eggs 

 imagine they have been eating a manufac- 

 tured article. The campaign of article- 

 writing, telling the truth about comb honey 

 and how it is produced, should be kept up 

 by our friends. 



nailed on to each end. The lights of glass 

 are now stood up on edge between the 

 nails, and the whole is iminersed in the so- 

 lution of potash. It is then left there for 

 about ten minutes, when it is lifted out and 

 soused down into a tub of water to rinse off 

 the glass, for the photographic film will all 

 have dissolved oft" in the solution. 



To expedite the work, three wooden racks 

 for holding glass are made; and if one 

 works right he can take 50 every 5 minutes, 

 and have 2 minutes' rest out of each 5. 

 When the rack is taken out with the glass 

 it is set on the inverted boiler-cover and 

 carried over to the tub. This catches the 

 drip. 



BEE OR MACHINE HONEY. 



Walter S. Pouder has been doing some 

 good work in replying to certain articles 



J. A'., Minn. — As a rule very little honey 

 is obtained from dandelions. Some have 

 even questioned whether bees get any at 

 all, asserting that pollen is the only thing 

 that they visit the blossoms for. The prob- 

 babilities are, both pollen and a little hon- 

 ey are obtained. Indeed, I have sampled 

 what was said to be dandelion honey, and 

 it had a very distinct flavor, not unlike the 

 aroma from the flower. But I never knew 

 of a case yet where any considerable 

 amount was obtained. Dandelions grow 

 profusely here, and the only efi^ect of them 

 is to start brood-rearing slightly. Dande- 

 lion honey, what little there would be, 

 would not be suflicient to supply the bees 

 with stores if they were short on coming 

 out of winter quarters. 



The south side of a ridge or hill would 

 be an ideal place on which to put bees. 

 You need not fear about its being too 

 warm. 



