stramoniiini, ])oppy-juice and belladonna, 

 the Kill" '" qnantity produced was very 

 great, viz.: from o to Hi jiallons. This is 

 done for pmfit ; men know it, yet they will 

 drink it. We cannot pkevknt the sale of 

 glucose, but we must protect the people 

 from the adulteration of honey. There is 

 sutlicient acid in the best glucose to kill 

 bees. The adulteration of syrups is very 

 extensive. 



Mr. Porter. Our laws againstadulteration 

 should be as strict, and as strictly enforced, 

 as those of England. 



Mr. King. 1 have bought both the imported 

 and the home-made grape sugar, and could 

 never eat a piece the size of my thumb-nail 

 without vomiting. Mr. Bergh's law is broad 

 enough to prevent the needless taking of 

 life, and I intend to make this a test case, 

 and see if our pets cannot be protected. In 

 Kentucky there is a law to prevent adulter- 

 ations. On this question we all stand on 

 the same ground. 



Mr. Bacon had killed bees in days of igno- 

 rajice, but will do so no longer. He pro- 

 duced specimens of glucose and grape sugar, 

 which were passed around and tasted. If 

 what is fed m the fall is not wholly con- 

 sumed in the winter, it will become mixed 

 with the honey the following year. One 

 factory in Buffalo converts .'>,000 bushels of 

 corn a day into glucose. Its manufacture 

 was described. The adulteration of honey 

 is very small as compared with the amount 

 of the crop, and need not excite any fear 

 whatever on the part of the consumer, but 

 we desire earnestly to nip this in its infancy, 

 before it reaches the alarming extent of the 

 various syrups. 



Mr. Hasbrouck. If pure glucose is not 

 deleterious, some of the chemicals may 

 sometimes remain. The trouble does not 

 come from sulphuric acid, but from sulphate 

 of iron, which is not fully removed, and Mr. 

 Shearer's bees probably got some of this. 

 Glucose, fine and better than what has been 

 passed around, is agreat temptation. Honey 

 will not act as glucose does when treated 

 with proof alcohol. With glucose a precipi- 

 tate is thrown down ; none with honey, 

 which simply appears of less consistency. 



Comb Foundation. 



N. N. Betsinger. Many, no doubt, think 

 enough has been said upon this subject to 

 prove that comb foundation has become a 

 success. But I say unto you of a truth, 

 like the Queen of Slieba, " the half has not 

 been told." Without any selfish motive or 

 prejudice upon this subject, I give you my 

 experi(-nce lor the past two years with comb 

 foundation. The tirst was purchased from 

 a party whom I have every reason to believe 

 made it from pure wax. It was placed in 

 different forms in several hives, all of which 

 was accepted and worked out into perfect 

 combs, except where used in the brood- 

 chamber, and there it stretched half an inch 

 in 9 inches. The sagging was nearly all in 

 the upper half of the comb, and where more 

 than this is noticed, you may put it down a 

 fact, that it is an adulterated article. A few 

 days later in the season, I learned tiiat our 

 worthy friend, Capt. J. E. Hetherintjton, 

 was using wire in foundation in the brood 

 combs, to prevent it from sagging. The idea 



struck me favorably, and I cried, " Victory 

 at last !" ytilUan important point was to be 

 solved, viz.: How can the wire be run in the 

 foundation without injuring the soft metal 

 rollers? After a few weeks' deliberation, 

 I concluded to let the matter rest until the 

 meeting of the North American Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association, that 1 might there avail 

 myself of the knowledge sought for; but 

 as you all know who were here a little less 

 than one year ago, notwithstanding my per- 

 severing efforts, I was oDiiged to submit to 

 defeat. Being determined not to be outdone, 

 I prayed to G(»d that the secret might be re- 

 vealed unto me, and in a few moments, like 

 a flash of lightning, the whole was pictured 

 out before me. Tlie first point was the ne- 

 cessity of ordering a pair of copper rollers, 

 wliicli were in a few weeks completed by 

 Mr. Washburn, of Medina, Ohio ; the most 

 perfect mill now on the face of the earth, 

 and it is the only machine that has been 

 able to make 900 square feet of foundation 

 out of 100 lbs. of wax. The septum of such 

 foundation will be 7-100 of an inch thinner 

 than that of natural comb. Moreover, 

 where wire is desired in foundation, this 

 machine completely fills the bill, for just as 

 many feet can be made with wire in as that 

 without. The wire was found to be no hin- 

 drance to the bees, and 48 hours seemed 

 sufficient time to perfect the foundation 

 into natural comb. The queen also made 

 no choice in depositing her eggs ; even the 

 cells occupied with wire at the base seemed 

 to be unobjectionable to her. I put on the 

 boxes two-thirds filled with foundation, the 

 next day after the swarms were made, ex- 

 pecting the bees to occupy them imme- 

 diately. Th(! prospect now was very flat- 

 tering for foundation becoming a perfect 

 success ; but seeing the bees did not take to 

 the boxes, 1 concluded to examine the brood- 

 nest, when alas ! to my disappointment, the 

 bees refused to nurse more than one-half 

 of the brood where it was placed upon the 

 wires. The corroding of the wires seemed 

 to so impair the health of the larvfe that the 

 bees were obliged to remove it. The season 

 now being half advanced, with the brood- 

 chamber three-quarters tilled with solid 

 stores of white honey, and not a drop of 

 honey in the boxes, in nearly all of the 

 liives. I therefore perceived at once that 

 the bees were not to be humbugged in the 

 boxes, if they were in the brood-chamber, 

 and concluded to withdraw a portion of the 

 boxes occupied with foundation, and gave 

 them boxes partly hlled with natural comb. 

 They immediately entered them, ami in a 

 few days all were filled, while those with 

 foundation remained unaccepted. I have 

 now on hand over ;^,000 boxes, nearly full of 

 foundation, which have been on the hives a 

 large portion of the summer. I now leave 

 the subject for your decision. The experi- 

 ments of the past season with foundation 

 comb, have cost me over $1,000. Does itstill 

 remain a success with you ? 



A. J. King replied to Mr. Betsinger, con- 

 troverting his views, and stating that to him 

 foundation was a great blessing. 



Mr. Porter gave his experience, to the ef- 

 fect that while white foundation was a fail- 

 ure with him, the yellow was a great success. 

 He observes little sagging in cool weather. 



