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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 1 



The bee-keepers of California should in 

 some way get the ears or attention of every 

 producer on the coast, and plaster up their 

 mouths, if they do not know enough to keep 

 still till we know what we are talking- 

 about. In the mean time, let every one 

 " keep still and saw wood." 



necessary for thousands of people to coun- 

 teract this influence at once. 



POST CHECK MONEY. 



It is not often in these columns, especial- 

 ly in this department, that I refer to some- 

 thing entirely separate and distinct from 

 the subject of bee-keeping; but here is 

 something that is not only of great interest 

 to bee-keepers but to every citizen of the 

 United States, and I desire to interest the 

 readers of Gleanings. I refer to the Post 

 check-money bill which is now before Con- 

 gress for consideration. In a word, it is to 

 supplant or take the place of all the present 

 paper currency, much of which is filled 

 with germs of disease and filth, and sub- 

 stitute in its stead clean new bills that will 

 be a great deal like our present money, 

 with the exception that they are converti- 

 ble into ordinary checks payable to cer- 

 tain specified individuals. There are 

 blanks for your own signature, and for the 

 one to whom the money is sent. Until these 

 are filled out the bills will pass as common 

 currency, like our present paper money. 

 Now, then, when one wishes to send money 

 through the mails, all he has to do is to take 

 a bill out of his pocket-book, fill in the 

 name of the receiver, attach his signature 

 in the blank spaces provided, put on a 

 postage stamp, and cancel it with the in- 

 itials of the sender. This renders it paya- 

 ble to only one person — the one to whom it 

 is sent, and no one can cash it but that per- 

 son. 



This new plan will be cheaper than pos- 

 tal orders and express money orders, and 

 it is estimated that it will bring in a larger 

 revenue to the general government than the 

 present system. The fact that every bill 

 will, in a very short time, find its way into 

 the mails, will insure early cancellation 

 and renewal. The result of all this will be 

 clean crisp bills that are not defiled with 

 all kinds of germs. 



When j'ou remember that money passes 

 through the hands of all kinds of filthy per- 

 sons, and those who are fairly reeking with 

 disease germs, we wonder that the present 

 system does not spread disease more than 

 it does. By the new Post check money, all 

 this will be avoided. It will then be possi- 

 ble for any one to pull a bill out of his pock- 

 et, convert it into a check, and send it any- 

 where in the country. He will remove very 

 largely the temptation to rob United States 

 mails, for no negotiable money will then be 

 sent. 



Now, then, if our readers desire to help 

 foster this enterprise, let them write at 

 once to their Senators and Representatives 

 in Congress, urging their support, for the 

 express companies will put in a powerful 

 lobby to kill the bill, and it is, therefore, 



RECIPES FOR MAKING HONEY CHEAPER 

 THAN THE GENUINE. 



The advertisement below we find in the 

 Ventura Indepe7tdent. It seems a little 

 strange that a man in Ohio should send 

 away ofl" to California to advertise his 

 wares. Perhaps he thinks they do not have 

 enough honey there to go round. 



ARTIFICIAL HONEY. 



Can't be told from the genuine. Cost.s about one- 

 tenth as much, and gives yon a big profit. Complete 

 instructions for 25c, coin or .stamps. 



James L. Kenning, Box 87, Bantam, O. 



Below is the wonderful recipe for making 

 honey that costs only a tenth as much as 

 the genuine. It was written with a pen, 

 and the writer does not even sign his name 

 to it. 



RECIPE FOR MAKING ARTIFICIAL HONEY. 



Take 10 lbs. of brown sugar; add 3 lbs. of water, 40 

 grains cream tartar, and 3 lbs. of honey; 10 dn ps es- 

 sence of peppermint. First dissolve the sugar in the 

 water and take off the scum arising therefrom, then 

 dissolve the cream tartar in a little warm water which 

 you will add with a bttle stirring. Then add the hon- 

 ey Heat to a boiling-point and skim it, then stir a 

 few minutes. 



The above is a fair sample of the artifi- 

 cial-honey recipes. By the way, why did 

 not the editor of the Ventura Independent 

 tell this man he could not accept such an 

 advertisement? or doesn't he care what his 

 advertisers say so long as he gets the tri- 

 fling sum they pay for the insertion of their 

 advertisement? 1 am ashamed of our State 

 of Ohio. No wonder this town is called 

 "Bantam" where this man lives. In his 

 letter accompanying he asks for our adver- 

 tising rates. He will not need them, how- 

 ever, for he will discover we have inserted 

 his advertisement free of charge as above. 

 We find Bantam is a little town of only 100 

 or 200 inhabitants. 



Here is another recipe. It comes from 

 the Home Reinedy Co., St. Louis, Mo. They 

 have a little book giving recipes for doing 

 almost every thing, and declare they will 

 return the mone}' promptly if the customer 

 is not satisfied. This is what the adver- 

 tisement says: 



Artificial honey is made all over the world, and .sold 

 as genuine bee honey, and no one can tell the differ- 

 ence. Our recipe was used by the greatest honey com- 

 pany in the world for several' years, no one ever sus- 

 pecting that it was not pure bee honey, and was only 

 discovered by one of the chemists in their laboratory 

 exposing them. 



You can make this honey at a price about the same 

 as the price of molasses. Try this and you will never 

 be without good, pure honey. 



Recipe with full directions, 25c. 



And here is the wonderful recipe: 

 Brown sugar, 10 lbs. Water, 1 quart. Old bee-bread 

 honey in comb, 2 pounds. Cream of tartar, Y^ ounce. 

 Gum Arabic, 1 ounce. Oil of peppermint, 3 drops. 

 Oil of rose, 2 drops. Mix and boil two or three min- 

 utes, then add one quart of water in which one egg 

 luis been beaten. As soon as it begins to boil, skim 

 well ; remove from the fire : and, when a little cool, 

 add two pounds of pure bee honey, then strain. This 

 will keep any length of time if sealed up when fresh- 

 ly made. Home Remedy Co. 



You will notice the foundation of these 

 artificial-honey recipes is brown sugar; and 



