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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 15 



In a late issue I gave the text of the new 

 anti-adulteration law that is now in force 

 throughout New York. From recent clip- 

 pings that have been sent, it is apparent 

 that the glucose-mixers are hunting their 

 holes, and that the retailers are trying to 

 get rid of their so-called "pure" honey. 

 Good! Ohio, Illinois, and New York, each 

 of which has big cities, have laws that will 

 stop the adulteration of honey. Let the 

 good work go on. 



The iniquitous sweet-clover bill that was 

 introduced in the Ohio Legislature has 

 been killed, and killed so dead that I hope 

 no succeeding legislature will try to pass 

 another measure like it. This only illus- 

 trates that bee-keepers, when they are unit- 

 ed, and write to the members of their leg- 

 islature, can exert a powerful influence. 

 If it had not been for the bee-keepers of 

 New York the new anti-adulteration honey 

 law would not have been passed. 



NATIONAL HONEY STATISTICS. 



Here is a resolution that, as will be seen 

 by the date, was sent in some time ago, but 

 which I overlooked. I will now place it be- 

 fore our readers, and suggest th.it the Board 

 of Directors of the National Bee-keepers' 

 Association take this matter under consid- 

 eration. 



RESOLUTION PASSED AT THE ONTARIO CO., N. Y., BEE- 

 KEEPERS' MEETING AND INSTITUTE, CANANDAI- 

 GUA, N. Y , DEC. J3, lyOl. 



Resolved, That it is the sense of this convention that 

 tlie officers of the National Bee-keepers' Association 

 should establish a system for gathering and reporting 

 monthly, during the honey harvest, the comparative 

 yield of honey up to date of said report, and that we 

 request them to do so ; also. 



Resolved, That copies of this resolution be sent to, 

 etc. W. F. Marks, 



E. H. Perry, 



H. C. ROAT. 

 Com. on Resolutions. 



THE BIG NATIONAL CONVENTION AT DEN- 

 VER. 



From various newspaper clippings that 

 have been sent to us, it is apparent to me, 

 at least, that the bee-keepers of Denver are 

 making preparations to entertain the mem- 

 bers of the National Bee-keepers' Associa- 

 tion in a way that was never attempted be- 

 fore by any other body of bee-keepers in 

 the United States. I verily believe that our 

 •next convention, at Denver, during the first 

 week in September, will be the greatest 

 •ever known in the history of the Associa- 

 tion. Denver is central, even if it is so far 

 west to us Easterners. It is also right in 

 the heart of one of the best honey localities 

 in the world; and that locality, good as it 

 is, is right in the heart of the great West, 

 where in the future at least three pounds 

 out of five of the honey of the United States 

 will be produced. 



" KELLOGG'S *PURE HONEY." 



The people who are putting out "Kel- 

 logg's Pure Honey," purporting to come 

 from Medina, are beginning to send these 

 goods out again. As I have before told our 

 readers, no such honey bearing that brand 

 is put up anywhere in Medina, and all 

 the samples of these goods we have had an- 

 alj'zed were the vilest of glucose. Of all 

 the bad decoctions masquerading under an 

 honest name purporting to come from an 

 honest town this is by far the worst I ever 

 saw. Medina is a village of only about 

 2000 inhabitants. We know every business 

 concern in town; and if Kellogg honey were 

 put up here we should certainly know it. 

 The fact is, it is put out by a Kansas City 

 firm who are trying to trade on our good 

 name. They know that any thing that 

 comes from Medina in the bee line is sup- 

 posed to come from the Roots. They know 

 that we are fighting adulteration; they 

 know, also, that the general public knows 

 it; therefore any thing hailing from Medi- 

 na they suppose will be considered as pure 

 goods, and that is true. 



We warned the concern putting out this 

 stuff, and they desisted for a time. We are 

 now gathering fresh evidence to put in the 

 hands of our attorney; as we intend to 

 bring suit we solicit the aid of our readers. 



If you can, learn from your grocer who it 

 is that puts out these goods. Obtain, if 

 }'ou possibly can, a certified cop3^ of a bill 

 — or, better still, obtain the original bill 

 itself of this Medina \1) honey. 



Later. — Since the foregoing was in tj'pe 

 I learn that the State Food Inspector of 

 Idaho, where this stuff has been sent, is 

 looking after thisKellogg honey; and he says 

 if he finds it adulterated, every bottle of 

 it will be condemned and ordered out of the 

 State. If the goods are like what we have 

 seen and tested they will be barred from 

 the State, sure. 



BEE STORIES IN MAGAZINES. ; HOW TO GET 

 SOME GOOD ADVERTISING FREE. 



Bee stories and facts about bees are get- 

 ting to be quite a fad in the illustrated pa- 

 pers and magazines of late. The Youths'' 

 Companion recently had a very nice picture 

 on its first page, showing a modern apiary 

 of 8-frame Laugstroth hives, and a beauti- 

 ful girl in the foreground on whom a swarm 

 of bees was clustering. The story is quite 

 tragic. It relates how the girl almost 

 swooned, but kept still without flinching 

 until her uncle, a bee-keeper, hived the bees 

 off from her. Too bad it wasn't her sweet- 

 heart! What was almost a tragedy would 

 have ended in a beautiful romance. 



Another interesting bee story appears in 

 Ainslee's Illustrated Magazine. 



All these stories and write-ups are very 

 helpful, because the general public are now 

 beginning to get a glimpse of how honey 

 can be produced in such immense quanti- 

 ties. When consumers generally under- 



