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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Dec. 13, 1900. 



cept in so far as the provisions of this Act may require to 

 secure freedom from adulteration or imitation : Provided 

 further. That no dealer shall be convicted under the pro- 

 visions of this Act when he is able to prove a vrritten 

 guaranty of purity, in a form approved by the Secretary of 

 Ag-riculture, as publisht in his rules and regulations, signed 

 by the manufacturer, or the party or parties from vehom he 

 purchast said articles : Provided also. That said guarantor 

 or guarantors reside in the United States. Said guaranty 

 shall contain the full name and address of the party or 

 parties making the sale to the dealer, and said, party or 

 parties shall be amenable to the prosecutions, fines and 

 other penalties which would attach in due course to the 

 dealer under the provisions of this Act. 



Skc. ".—That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of 

 Agriculture to fix standards of food products when advis- 

 able, and to determine the wholesomeness or unwholesorae- 

 ness of preservatives and other substances which are or 

 may be added to foods, and to aid him in reaching just 

 decisions in such matters he is authorized to call upon the 

 Director of the Bureau of Chemistry and the chairman of 

 the committee on food standards of the Association of Offi- 

 cial Agricultural Chemists and such physicians, not less 

 than five, as the President of the United States shall select, 

 three of whom shall be from the Medical Department of the 

 Army, the Navy, and the Marine Hospital Service, and not 

 less than five experts, to be selected by the Secretary of 

 Agriculture by reason of their attainments in physiological 

 chemistry, hygiene, commerce and manufacture, to consider 

 jointly the standards of all food products (within the mean- 

 ing of this Act), and t6 study the effect of preservatives and 

 other substances added to food products on the health of 

 the consumer; and when so determined and approved by 

 the Secretary of Agriculture such standards shall guide the 

 chemists of the Department of Agriculture in the perform- 

 ance of the duties imposed upon them by this Act, and 

 shall remain the standard before all United States courts. 

 It shall be the duty of the vSecretary of Agriculture, either 

 directly or thru the Director of the Bureau of Chemistry and 

 the chairman of the committee on food standards of the 

 Association of Official Agricultural Chemists and the medi- 

 cal officers and experts before mentioned, to confer with 

 and consult, when so requested, the duly accredited repre- 

 sentatives of all industries producing articles for which 

 standards shall be establisht under the provisions of this 

 Act. 



Sec. 8. — That every person who manufactures or pro- 

 duces for shipment and delivers for transportation within 

 the District of Columbia or any Territory, or who manu- 

 factures or produces for shipment or delivers for transpor- 

 tation from any State, Territory, or the District of Colum- 

 bia to any other State, Territory, or the District of Colum- 

 bia, or to any foreign country, any drug or article of food, 

 and every person who exposes for sale or delivers to a pur- 

 chaser in the District of Columbia or in any Territory, any 

 drug or any article of food manufactured or produced with- 

 in said District of Columbia or said Territory, or who ex- 

 poses for sale or delivers for shipment any drug or article 

 of food received from a State, Territory, or the District of 

 Columbia other than the State, Territory, or the District of 

 Columbia in which he exposes for sale or delivers such 

 drug or article of food, or from any foreign country, shall 

 furnish within business hours, and upon tender and full 

 payment of the selling price, a sample of such drugs or 

 articles of food to any person duly authorized by the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture to receive the same, and who shall ap- 

 ply to such manufacturer, producer, or vendor, or person 

 delivering to a purchaser such drug or article of food for 

 such sample for such use, in sufficient quantity for the 

 analysis of any such article or articles in his possession. 

 And in the presence of such dealer and an agent of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, if so desired by either party, said 

 sample shall be divided into three parts, and each part shall 

 be sealed by the seal of the Department of Agriculture. One 

 part shall be left with the dealer, one delivered to the Direc- 

 tor of the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agri- 

 culture, and one deposited with the United States district 

 attorney for the district in which the sample is taken. Said 

 manufacturer, producer, or dealer, may have the sample 

 left with him analyzed at his own expense, and if the re- 

 sults of said analysis differ from those of the Department 

 of Agriculture, the sample in the hands of the district at- 

 torney may be analyzed by a third chemist, who shall be 

 appointed by the president of the Association of Official 

 Agricultural Chemists of the United States, and the analy- 

 sis shall be conducted, if so desired, in the presence of a 

 chemist of the Department of Agriculture and a chemist 



representing the dealer, and the whole data obtained shall 

 be laid before the court. 



Sec. 9. — That any manufacturer, producer, or dealer 

 who refuses to comply, upon demand, with the require- 

 ments of Sec. 8 of this Act shall be guilty of a misde- 

 meanor ; and upon conviction shall be fined not exceeding 

 one hundred dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding one hun- 

 dred days, or both. And any person found guilty of manu- 

 facturing, or offering for sale, or selling an adulterated, 

 impure, or misbranded article of food or drug in violation 

 of the provisions of this Act shall be adjudged to pay, in 

 addition to the penalties hereinbefore provided for, all the 

 necessary costs and expenses incurred in inspecting and 

 analyzing such adulterated articles which said person may 

 have been found guilty of manufacturing, selling, or offer- 

 ing for sale. 



Sec. 10. — That this Act shall not be construed to inter- 

 fere with commerce wholly internal in any State, nor with 

 the exercise of their police powers by the several States. 



Sec. 11. — That any article of food or drug that is adul- 

 terated or misbranded, within the meaning of this Act, and 

 is transported or being transported from one State to 

 another for sale, or if it be sold or offered for sale in the 

 District of Columbia and the Territories of the United 

 States, or if it be imported from a foreign country for sale, 

 or if intended for export to a foreign country, shall be liable 

 to be proceeded against in any district court of the United 

 States, within the district where the same is found and 

 seized for confiscation, by a process of libel for condemna- 

 tion. And if such article is condemned as being adulter- 

 ated the same shall be disposed of as the said court may 

 direct, and the proceeds thereof, if sold, less the legal costs 

 and charges, shall be paid into the Treasury of the United 

 States ; but such goods shall not be sold in any State con- 

 trary to the laws of that State. The proceedings in such 

 libel cases shall conform, as near as may be, to proceedings 

 in admiralty, except that either party may demand trial by 

 jury of any issue of fact joined in such case ; and all such 

 proceedings shall be at the suit of and in the name of the 

 United States. 



Contributed Articles. 



How to Know How to Look for the Queen-Bee. 



BY W. \V. m'NE.^L. 



HERE is a little kink, dear reader, which I think may be 

 worth your while to consider. It is in regard to finding 

 a queen-bee easily and quickly when the hive is 

 densely crowded with bees. 



Wiien these conditions prevail, the queen's whereabouts 

 may, to a very great extent, be determined by noting the 

 position the ventilating bees occupy at the entrance to the 

 hive. I have not yet found it otherwise that when these 

 bees were stationed at one side of the hive-entrance, the 

 queen was not to be found upon the combs at the other. No 

 doubt you have many times noticed that the bees upon the 

 alighting-board, that are engaged in ventilating the hive, 

 frequently change their position from that of one side of 

 the entrance to that of the other side. Of course, when the 

 entrance is small, not being the full width of the front of 

 the hive, this becomes no longer a means of judging of 

 " internal conditions by external signs." 



If the hive contains nine frames, or ten frames, or pos- 

 sibly more, and these frames are self-spacing, it is a won- 

 derful saving of time to be enabled to confine your search 

 to half that number, with a reasonable degree of certainty 

 of finding the queen upon one of the number you have 

 selected. 



HOW TO CATCH \ OUKEN, WHEN" FOUND, WITHOUT 

 INJURING HER. 



If the work of finding the queen has been pursued prop- 

 erly, not carelessly provoking the bees to anger, they sel- 

 dom resent an attempt, on the part of the apiarist, to take 

 the queen when she is found upon the comb. Having a 

 small cage in readiness, and a piece of wire about the size 

 of an ordinary slate-pencil, one end of which has been bent 

 to form a circle an inch and a half in diameter, it is an easy 

 matter to lift the queen from the comb and secure her in 

 the cage. It being the habit of the queen to run away from 



