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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



March 22, 1900 



PUBLISHT WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. York & company, 



116 Michigan Street, Ciiicago, III. 



[Entered at the Post-Office at Chicago as Second-Class Mail-Matter.] 

 EDITOR: 



DEPARTMENT EDITORS: 



Dr. C. C. miller, E. E. HASTY, 



*' Questions and Answers.'' * " The Afterthought." 



LEADING CONTRIBUTORS: 



G. M. DooLiTTLE, C. P. Dadant, Prof. A. J. Cook, 



F. A. Snell, R. C. Aikin, "Old Grimes." 



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VOL. 40. 



MARCH 22, 1900. 



NO. 12. 



Note— The American Bee Journal adopts the Orthography of the follow- 

 ing Rule, recommended by the joint action of the American Philolog- 

 ical Association and the Philological Society of England: — Change 

 "d" or "ed" final to "t" when so pronounced, except when the "e" af- 

 fects a preceding sound. Also some other changes are used. 



The Brosius Pure=Foo(J Bill. —Rev. E. T. Abbott, the 

 representative of bee-keepers' interests at the recent Pure- 

 Food Congress, in Washington, wrote us March 16, that the 

 revised Brosius Bill will be before both houses of congress 

 in a short time. He says : 



" Urge your readers to write at once to their congress- 

 man, pressing upon him the importance of supporting the 

 Brosius Bill as revised by the last Pure-Food Congress. 

 Also urge them to be on their guard against any attempt to 

 side-track this bill in the interest of one which is backt by 

 only a few individuals. 'Pass the revised Brosius Bill,' is 

 now our watchword." 



We trust our readers will quickly act on Mr. Abbott's 

 suggestion. The Brosius Bill should be past during this 

 session of congress, and will be if every lover of pure food 

 will do his full duty. 



New York Spraying Law in Danger.— Mr. Frank I. 

 Clark, of Cayuga Co., N. Y., has sent us a copy of a bill 

 introduced into the legislature of that State, amending the 

 spraying law which allows experiments at experiment sta- 

 tions and by private persons. Mr. Clark urges us to re- 

 quest that every bee-keeper in New York State write at 

 once to their representatives in the senate and assembly to 

 vote against the passage of the bill. As the legislature 



will adjourn about April 1, it will likely be past or defeated 

 before that time. Better write at once. 



Editor Root, referring to this subject in Gleanings in 

 Bee-Culture, says : 



While the bill is innocent enough on its face, yet the 

 measure was framed by the opposers of the spraying law, 

 who, having been unsuccessful in having this same law re- 

 pealed at the last session of the legislature, are now taking 

 this apparently innocent but nevertheless effective method 

 of taking the very teeth out of the law. Mr. Marks says 

 that the experiment stations, or the experimenters, have 

 none of them askt for such an amendment ; and he desires 

 all the bee-keepers of New York to write to their senators 

 and representatives at once to protest vigorously against 

 the passage of the amendment under consideration. 



When I was in Colorado I understood that a similar at- 

 tempt was made to practically kill the spraying law in 

 Colorado ; and it behooves the bee-keepers of the different 

 States having such laws to be on the watch, because there 

 is a lot of ignorant fruit-men who are up to just such tactics 

 as this. 



Organization Among Bee=Keepers. — On another page 

 in this issue Mr. F. Greiner — one of the leading bee-keepers 

 and writers on both bee-culture and general agricultural 

 topics in the State of New York — presents a ringing article 

 that we hope every one of our subscribers will read very 

 carefully. Not only that each shall read it, but the next 

 thing he does after reading it, send his dollar for member- 

 ship dues to Hon. Eugene Secor, Forest City, Iowa, and be- 

 come a member of the National Bee-Keepers' Association 

 right away, if not already a member. 



Every bee-keeper in the United States ought to become 

 a member of the National organization, at least. Every- 

 thing and everybody are now working harmoniously along 

 the apicultural line. This is just as it should be. It is a 

 splendid time to unite in a strong organization, such as 

 this or any other country has never seen. Mr. Greiner has 

 made a grand plea for this very thing, and we wish simply 

 to " .second his motion." 



Shall there not be " falling into line " among bee-keep- 

 ers all over our broad land, until our National organization 

 may be all that Mr. Greiner has so graphically outlined ? 



If it is more convenient for our our readers to send their 

 membership dues to us, we will forward them to Mr. Secor, 

 who will then promptly mail a receipt to each. Now for a 

 host of volunteers for the Grand Army of Bee-Keepers ! 



Adulteration of Honey is bad enough at the best, and 

 any of it is too much, but many times it happens that the 

 matter is greatly exaggerated. It is not an uncommon 

 thing to see in the foreign papers a railing accusation 

 against all honej' sent across the ocean from America, and 

 even well-informed Americans are under the impression 

 that when honey from this country lands in Germany or 

 some other European country, only a small part of it ever 

 saw the inside of a bee-hive. A foreign letter in the Coun- 

 try Gentleman has the following sentence : 



" I regret to see that complaints are rife as to Jhe im- 

 portation of adulterated honey, and need hardlj' say where 

 the complaint chiefly lies." 



It requires no great stretch to interpret that as mean- 

 ing I " It is too bad, and I wish it were not so, but adul- 

 terated honey in these foreign countries comes chiefly from 

 America." 



Pertinent to the subject is the testimony of H. Guehler, 

 of Berlin. He is an expert honey-dealer, carrj'ing on an 

 immense business with 1,600 places of sale in Berlin and 

 elsewhere, handling perhaps more honey than any other man 

 living. He says much of the American honey is prepared 

 without intelligence and without care, and on that account 

 is considered adulterated. But he says in the Deutsche 111. 



