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HEADSOF GRATNT[?foQi|Qa DIFFERENT FIELDS 



Why 111 tulvertisonients, la- 



"Pure Honey?" hols, and circulars per- 



taining to honey, the 

 word ' ' Pure ' ' is frequently and inadvisably 

 used. Too often do we see or hear the ex- 

 pression, ' ' Pure Honey. ' ' As tho honey 

 might be impure! 



Nobody is supposed to manufacture or 

 adulterate honey, so why announce that any 

 honey is pure hone3^ The one who adulter- 

 ates honey should be branded with a hot 

 iron, showing he is an outcast. That we 

 icnow. But we have pure-food laws; and 

 the word ' ' honey' ' is sufficient to let people 

 know that honey is honey. Why should any- 

 body announce that his honey is pure? The 

 expression announcing "pure honey" in ad- 

 vertisements should be eliminated, and all 

 labels bearing the legend of "pure honey" 

 should be destroyed. 



There may be some who might take issue 

 with me upon this subject, who might urge 

 that in these days of imitations and substi- 

 tutes there may be cases of adulteration of 

 honey; but even then it would be unwise 

 for a producer or dealer in honey to an- 

 nounce that his honey is pure. By all the 

 gods at once, it is jaresumed to be pure! 



In the British Museum there is, or was, 

 an Assyrian inscription, translated by Pro- 

 fessor J. Helevy, showing a Babylonian 

 recipe — the only known specimen of an As- 

 syrio-Babylonian prescription extant — in 

 which the expression "pure honey" was 

 used. 



Yet there is no evidence that in the Baby- 

 lonian days there was any kind of honey 

 except pure honey; and today there is no 

 other kind of honey except pure honey. 



Why do labels and advertisements con- 

 tinue to use the hackneved expression al- 

 luded to? " C. M. Elfer. 



St. Eose, La. 



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Holtermann Answers Our good friend, Dr. 

 Dr. Miller. C. C. Miller, under 



' ' Stray Straws, ' ' page 

 586, September Gleanings, very kindly and 

 gently gives me to understand that it is 

 considered an act of cruelty to destroy worn- 

 out and almost worn-out bees. He also 

 states that it is an easy matter to separate 

 such bees from young and vigorous bees. 



To take up the last point first, let me say 

 that I do not consider that a successful 

 method of separating such bees. As soon 

 as a bee locates herself she is liable, if 

 moved away, to return to the old stand, and 

 the removal of a hive to a new stand en- 

 dangers the return of every bee that has lo- 

 cated herself. I do not want to lose such 

 bees and cannot see the solution to the prob- 

 lem. 



As to the first point, I am a man who 

 strongly dislikes to kill a chicken, and I 

 would rather not eat the chicken than kill 



it. I admit this is a matter of sentiment. 

 Then for years 1 wouldn't, and now will not, 

 throw a hook into the water to catch a fish; 

 and to put a worm on a hook when the worm 

 is alive (which it always is) is revolting to 

 me; and as to minnows on a hook to catch a 

 fish — well, I will say no more. When I see 

 poor flies struggling on sticky fly paper, I 

 am reminded that there is still much of the 

 savage about us. Our boys used to chase 

 squirrels and smoke them out of apple tree 

 trunks, and I said, ' ' Why not leave the poor 

 things alone?"; but when the bees were 

 packed in cases for winter, and these same 

 squirrels gnawed holes (for they always 

 make two in a case) in the cases and chased 

 one another thru the cases, thus disturbing 

 the bees and endangering their lives, I paid 

 a boy 25 cents for every squirrel he shot 

 near the apiaries. For the same reason, I 

 would have no hesitation in quickly de- 

 stroying the old bees of a colony; in fact, 

 I would consider I would lessen their suffer- 

 ings. I would consider it just as legitimate 

 to kill them as to kill any stock on the 

 farm, and I do not think that good, sound 

 reason can back up opj^osition to the plan. 

 Brantford, Ont. E. P. Holtermann. 



Got a Big My parents gave me 



Crop in Chicago. on June 5, 1919, a hive 



containing bees for a 

 birthday jiresent. I put on 10 shallow 

 frames, which were filled in 14 days with 

 beautiful white clover honey. I then put on 

 a comb-honey super and the bees worked so 

 fast on sweet clover I added a third super 

 underneath. These were filled the quickest 

 I have ever seen 

 bees work. The hive 

 was so crowded I 

 put on the fourth 

 super; and by Aug. 

 25, that was filled, 

 making a total of 

 182 pounds of hon- 

 ey, worth 45 c a 

 pound or $81.90 — a 

 handsome birthday 

 present. 



I consider this a 

 wonderful record 

 owing to the fact 

 that the bees are in 

 the city limits of 

 Chicago, surround- 

 ed by factories, and 

 have to fly far for 

 their stories. A 

 school yard is only 

 100 ft. from the api- 

 ary, and a factory 

 of 900 employees 

 „,, 1*1 „„,i across the street; 



llie coiidui-tor bov ana , , t i 



his birtlKlav uift. but I have never 



