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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 15 



refer to, although I assume they relate to 

 the whole tongue-leng-th and not to the 

 tongue-reach. At all events, the experi- 

 ment shows a great variation, and gives us 

 some encouragement that we may be able 

 to accomplish something providing we can 

 control the male parentage. 



NEV/ YORK'S RECENTLY ENACTED ANTI-BO- 

 GUS-HONEY LAW. 



If there is a bee-keeper anywhere in the 

 great State of New York who works un- 

 stintedly and unselfishly for the industr3' 

 of which he is a representative, it is Mr. 

 W. F. Marks, of Chapinville, President of 

 the New York State Association of Bee- 

 keepers' Societies. The great city of New 

 York has been headquarters of late for bo- 

 gus honey. Every thing would pass muster 

 in that great metropolis, and then would 

 be scattered far and wide. 



Some little time ago I asked President 

 Marks if it would not be possible to get a 

 law that would better protect bee-keepers. 

 He immediately wrote back that the matter 

 was under consideration, and that he him- 

 self would do all he could to get the law 

 amended. The following letter from Mr. 

 Marks, dated March 24, will fully explain 

 itself:| 



Mr. E. R. Root :^\ hand you herewith a copy of our 

 new anti-bogus-honey law, or as much of it as relates 

 to honey. You will observe that the provisions rela- 

 tive to lioney are the same as in the original draft, ex- 

 cept the words " s' rained honey, " which were added 

 before the bill was in rovluced. The duties of the com- 

 mi sioner, and penalties for voUition of the agricul- 

 tural law, were already provided for in other sections 

 of said law, abstract- from which are annexed ihereto. 



It passed both branches of the legislature, without 

 amendment. I received word from Albany Saturday 

 that it had been approved by the Gove nor. The act 

 takes effect immediatey. The Hon. Jean 1, Burnetc 

 of Canandaigua, whi secured the passage of our foul- 

 bn od law, introduced and had charge ot this l)ill. 

 F Our slogan is, " Human foods should be sold un 

 der their proper names; misbranding is a fraud; 

 honey is the natural product of the honey-bee; and 

 the word ' honey ' in any form must not i e used as 

 a brand for glucose, syrups, and cheap compounds " 



Chapinville, N. Y., Mar. 24. W. F. Marks. 



The text of the amended sections of the 

 law is as follows: 



AN ACT to amend the agricultural law relative to 

 prevention of disease among bees, and to add two 

 new sections thereto relative to honey, to be known 

 as sections eighty-a and eighty-b. 



Section 2. — Said chapter, three hundred and thirty- 

 eight, is hereby amended by inserting therein, after 

 section eighty thereof, two new sections, to be known 

 as sections eighty-a and eighty-b, and to read respec- 

 tively as follows : 



Section 8o-a. — Defining honey. — The terms " honey," 

 "liquid or extracted honey," "strained honey," or 

 ■' pure honey," as used in this act, shall mean the nec- 

 tar of flowers that has been transformed by, and is 

 the natural product of, the honey-bee, taken from the 

 honey-comb and marketed in a liquid, candied, or 

 granulated condition. 



Section 8o-b. — Relative to selling a commodity in imi- 

 tation or semblance of honey — No person or persons 

 shall sell, keep forsule, expose or offer for sale, any 

 article or product in imitation or semblance of honey 

 branded as "honey," "liquid or extracted honey," 

 "strained honey," or "pure honey," which is not 

 pure honey. No person or persons, firm, association, 

 ■company, or corporation shall manufacture, sell, ex- 

 pose, or offer for sale any compound or mixture brand- 

 ed or labeled as and for honev which shall be made 

 up of honey mixed with any other substance or ingre- 

 dient. There may be printed on 'he package contain- 



ing such compound or mixture a statement giving the 

 ingredients of which it is made ; if honey is one of 

 such ingredients it shall be so stated in the same size 

 type as are the other ingredients ; but it shall not be 

 sold, exposed for sale, or offered for sale as honey ; 

 nor shall such compound or mixture be branded or 

 labeled with the word " honey " in any form other 

 tl an as herein provided ; nor shall any product in 

 semblance of honey whether a mixture or not be 

 sold, exposed, or offered for sale as honey, or branded 

 or labeled with the word " honey," unless such article 

 is pure honey. 



ABSTRACT FROM THE AGRICULTURAL LAW RELATIVE 

 TO PENALTIES. 



Seclinn -^y. — IJvery person violating any of the pro- 

 visions of the agricultural law shall forfeit to the peo- 

 ple of the State of New York the sura of not less than 

 fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for 

 the first violation, and not less than one hundred dol- 

 lars nor more than two hundred dollars for the .second 

 and each subsequent violation. Wneii such violation 

 consi-ts of the manufacture or pr duction of any pro- 

 hibited article, each day during which or any part of 

 whicn such manufacture or production is carried on 

 or continued, sh <11 be deemed a separate violation of 

 the pr jvisions of this article When the violation con- 

 sists of the sale, or the offering or exposing for sale, 

 or exchange of any prohibited article or substance, 

 the sale of each one of several packages shall consti- 

 tuie a separate vii)latioii : and each day on which any 

 article or substance is offered or expo.'-ed for sale or 

 exchange shall constitute a separa e violation of this 

 article. When the use of any such article or substance 

 is pr ihibited, each day during wtiich or any part of 

 which said art cle or substance is so used or furnished 

 for use, -hall coiistilu e a separate violation, and the 

 furnishing of the same for use to each person to whom 

 the same may be furnished shall constitute a separate 

 violation. 



Section 2. — This act shall take effect immediately. 



I have read over this law, and I can not 

 imagine how any thing can be more specific 

 or more sweeping. If the officers whose 

 duties it is to enforce this law perform their 

 duty at all, the whole State of New York 

 will be very largely, if not wholly, free 

 from the adtilteration of honey. 



The time was, not more than three or 

 four 3'ears ago, when Chicago was the head 

 center of adulteration, simply becatise there 

 was no anti-adulteration law that could be 

 made sufficiently effective. But a law was 

 finally passed, so that to-day in Chicago 

 scarcely a pound of adulterated honey can 

 be found unless properly labeled; and such 

 goods, of course, will nut sell. 



We are now looking forward to a similar 

 result in the city of New York ; atid you 

 may rest assured that W. F. Marks and 

 the various metnbers of the society with 

 which he is connected will leave no stone 

 unturned to bring about a proper enforce- 

 ment of the law above given. 



Ohio has a good law against the adulter- 

 ation of food products, and it is well enforc- 

 ed. If we can get a few more States to go 

 and do likewise, bee-keepers will begin to 

 see a rise in price of honey. 



California had a good law ; but those 

 whose duty it was to enforce it have prac- 

 tically taken the teeth all out of it, so that 

 it is only partially effective. If our friends 

 on the west coast can get a law such as 

 there is in Illinois, Ohio, and New York, 

 and get some men back of it who will see 

 that it is enforced, we shall get this adul- 

 teration business pretty well corraled. As 

 the matter now stands, there is nothing to 

 prevent carloads of honey in California 

 from being adulterated with glucose, and 



