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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Feb. 27, 



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lap and four or five thicknesses of rag car- 

 pet. 1 prefer the 10-frame hive with 9 

 frames and a dummy, then 1 can contract 

 or enlarge the brood-nest to suit the colony. 

 I like the dummy, for in examining the 

 brood-nest you can take it out and set it 

 down any place, und that gives plenty of 

 room to set the rest of the frames back in 

 the hive as examined, and no danger of 

 robber-bees if there is no honey coming iu. 



I often see the question asked, When is 

 the best time to transfer bees ? I have 

 transferred bees in May, June, July and 

 August. My first colony was transferred 

 from a tree Aug. 15, with not more than IJo 

 frames of brood and empty comb, no honey. 

 They came through, but were very weak. 

 They built up on golden-rod that fall. Those 

 that were transferred in June and July did 

 not work with the vim that those did that 

 were transferred in fruit-bloom. They 

 worked more like a good prime swarm. 

 Early fruit-bloom is the proper time to 

 transfer. D. A. Holeman'. 



Goodwill Hill. Pa.. Dec. 14, 1895. 



California Anti-Adulteration Law. 



Some time ago there was an incjuiry in 

 the Bee Journal respecting the California 

 law on adulteration of honey. The follow- 

 ing is a copy from the Revised Statutes of 

 this State: 



An Act to provide against the adultera- 

 tion of food and drugs. Approved March 

 26. 1895. 



Sec. 1. No person shall within this State 

 manipulate for sale, offer for sale, or sell 

 any drug or article of food which is adul- 

 terated within the medning of this Act. 



Sec. 3 (part of) The terra "food." 



as used herein, shall include all articles 

 used for food or drink by man. whether 

 simple, mixed, or compound. 



Sec. 3. Any article shall be deemed to be 

 adulterated within the meaning of this Act: 

 (6) In case of food: (1.) If any substance 

 or substances have been mixed with it, so 

 as to lower or depreciate, or injuriously 

 affect its quality, strength or purity. (2.) 

 If any inferior or cheaper substance or sub- 

 stances have been substituted wholly or in 

 part for it. (3.) If any valuable or neces- 

 sary constituent or ingredient has been 

 wholly or in part abstracted from it. (4.) 

 If it is an imitation of, or is sold under the 

 name of another article. (5.) If it consists 

 wholly, or in part, of diseased, decomposed, 

 putrid, infected, tainted, or rotten animal 

 or vegetable substance or article, whether 

 manufactured or not; or in the case of 

 milk, if it is produced from a diseased ani- 

 mal. (6.) It it is colored, coated, polished 

 or powdered, whereby damage or impurity 

 is concealed, or if by any means it is made 

 to appear better or of greater value than it 

 really is. (7.) If it contains any added 

 substance, or ingredient which is poisonous 

 or injurious to health. 



Provided, that the provisions of this Act 

 shall not apply to mixtures or compounds 

 recognized as ordinary articles, or ingre- 

 dients of articles of food, if each and every 

 package sold, or offered for sale, be dis- 

 tinctly labeled as mixtures or compounds, 

 with the name and per cent, of each ingre 



dient therein, and are not injurious to 

 health. 



Sec. 4. Every person manufacturing, ex- 

 posing or offering for sale, or delivering to 

 a purchaser, any drug or article of food 

 incliided in the provisions of this Act, shall 

 furnish to any person interested, or de- 

 manding the same, who shall apply to him 

 for the purpose, and shall tender him the 

 value of the same, a sample sufficient for 

 analysis of any such drug or article of food 

 which is in his possession. 



Sec. 5. Whoever refuses to comply, 

 upon demand, with the requirements of 

 Section 4, and whoever violates any of the 

 provisions of this Act, shall be guilty of 

 misdemeanor, and shall be fined not ex- 

 ceeding .^100, nor less than •*25. or impris- 

 oned iu the county jail not exceeding 100, 

 nor less than 30 days, or both. And any 

 person found guilty of manufacturing, 

 offering for sale, or selling, an adulterated 

 article of food or drug under the provisions 

 of this Act, shall be adjudged to pay in ad- 

 dition to the penalties hereinbefore pro- 

 vided for, all necessary costs and expenses 

 incurred in inspecting and analyzing such 

 adulterated articles of which said person 

 may have been found guilty of mauufac- 

 ing, selling, or offering for sale. 



Sec. 6. This Act shall be in force and take 

 effect from and after its passage. 



Los Angeles, Calif. G. A. Millard. 



Moving Eggs — Numbering Hives. 



My 51 colonies come out of winter quar- 

 ters in poor condition in 1S95, and dwindled 

 down to 24, but they increased again to 41, 

 and I got TOO pounds of comb honey in one- 

 pound sections, and 300 pounds of extracted. 

 I sold it in my home market for 15 cents 

 for comb and 10 cents for extracted. I 

 have 41 colonies in the cellar in good condi- 

 tion now. I never had them winter better 

 than they have so far. 



In regard to bees stealing or carrying 

 eggs from other hives. I can say positively 

 I know they will. Last spring I had a 

 strong colony that was queenless. A cloud 

 came over the sun, and it got cold, so I 

 didn't like to open any more to get a frame 

 of eggs for them, for they did not have an 

 unsealed egg in the hive. It was five or 

 six days before I got to see them. I opened 

 the hive, and on the empty frame I found a 

 queen-cell with an egg not more than three 

 days old. 1 looked for more eggs, but not 

 another in the hive, so I took out another 

 empty frame and gave them a frame of 

 eggs and brood ; in about a week more I 

 looked, and they had taken some of the 

 eggs from that frame and put into the one 

 with the other queen-cell, and started five 

 or six more, and built some on the one I 

 put iu. 1 watched them closely, and their 

 cell hatched out a fine queen, and they tore 

 the rest down themselves. Now. where did 

 they get that egg if they did not steal it ? 



I can say that the American Bee Journal 

 has been worth more than S50 to me in the 

 last five or six years I have taken it, by 

 telling me how to get my honey in shape 

 for market, and how to handle my bees to 

 the best advantage. It would seem like 

 losing an old friend to be without it. 



The last three years have been poor, but 



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