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all he could do was to use the money of 

 the State and his influence against it. 

 So I believe to stop honey adulteration, 

 we must use our money and influence 

 against it. — Mks. Jennie Atchley. 



1. Produce and sell only pure honey 

 themselves, and the name on a can or 

 section should be a guarantee of purity. 

 Instruct their customers how to de- 

 tect adulteration in all known ways. 2. 

 The bee-keepers should do all they can 

 to educate the people, making adulter- 

 ated honey unsalable. — C. H. Dibbern. 



1. Do not adulterate, and by all hon- 

 orable means expose and denounce those 

 who do. 2. Condemn adulteration un- 

 der all circumstances ; insist that all 

 things shall be called by their proper 

 names, and do not screen those who put 

 bad or adulterated goods on the market, 

 simply because they belong to " our set." 

 — Emekson T. Abbott. 



1. Execute the laws against the crimi- 

 nals. The trouble is, public sentiment 

 has become so blunted by the nearly 

 universal practice of adulterating food, 

 drink and so-called medicine, that no- 

 body seems to care unless his pocket- 

 book is touched by it. 2. Bee-papers 

 can advertise the adulterators until their 

 business "plays out.'' — G. W. Demaree. 



1. a — Be honest themselves, b — Sell 

 none but the finest quality of extracted 

 honey, c — Cultivate and supply the 

 home market with such an article as 

 will keep out the commercial put-up-in- 

 the-city stuff, d — Put up and ship in 

 packages suitable for retail • trade. 2. 

 a — Expose violators, whether bee-keep- 

 ers or others, h — Educate the people. 

 c — Advocate pure-food laws. — Eugene 

 Secor. 



1. Fight it at every stage in every 

 way possible, the same as every kind of 

 wickedness. This form of wickedness 

 appeals directly to bee-keepers as at- 

 tacking their livelihood. 2. Sit on the 

 fence and tell their readers that sugar 

 syrup is honey, because chemists say so ! 

 Then turn around and say that chemists 

 cannot tell pure from impure honey, 

 that it may be half or two-thirds glucose, 

 and their verdict not conclusive as to 

 purity ! Assure the bee-keepers and 

 dealers that no law can successfully at- 

 tack them if they mix! A (irst-class 

 journal should strongly condemn any 

 one attempting to make it unpleasant 

 for mixers! And, finally, should tell its 

 readers how the editor does it himself 

 by new, improved, and original methods ! 

 —P. "H. Elwood. 



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Value of Calniii as a Honey-Plant. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 by j. c. wallenmeyer. 



I see that bee-pasturage is again be- 

 ing agitated in the bee-papers, and W. 

 H. Morse on page 26 of the American 

 Bee Journal offers a valuable sugges- 

 tion. If carried out, bee-keepers all 

 over our broad United States could 

 profit by it. How can we expect a crop 

 if we have no source ? By judicious 

 sowing of seeds we can maintain a con- 

 tinuous honey-flow. 



Mr. Newman states that by scattering 

 about '60 cents worth of seeds of the 

 right kind for every colony, we cannot 

 overstock an apiary even though we in- 

 crease to 500 colonies. 



In preference to all honey-plants in 

 the world, I prefer catnip, as I know it 

 yields more honey than any other plant, 

 year for year. We all know that every 



i honey-plant sometimes fails, but cat- 



I nip never does. It has many good 

 points that place it in the lead. First, 



I you can sow the seed anytime and any- 

 where, and when once sown it never 

 needs any attention whatever, on the 



I part of the bee-keeper, but spreads with 

 wonderful rapidity. Its perfect immu- 

 nity from grazing cattle is a commenda- 

 ble feature. It successfully withstands 

 all drouths, and makes a vigorous 

 growth, flourishing where nothing else 

 will grow. Its long, penetrating roots 

 account for this. 



I have visited my plants in the garden 

 at every hour of the day, from early 

 morn until night, and always found the 

 blossoms covered with bees. My diary 

 last year shows that the bloom lasted 

 from July 1st until frost on Oct. 10th, 

 making 100 days of continuous bloom. 

 No other plant will do this. Our best 

 honey-sources from which we get flows 

 never last much longer than two weeks. 

 White clover was a complete failure in 

 this locality until about the last five 



