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" We can imagine this supposed visitant 

 examining the sugar, the cofifee, the tea, 

 the Hour, the butter, the wine, and with 

 some hesitation, and ira])elled only by a 

 sense of duty, the whisky, to find that the 

 odulterator has done his work in all. He 

 would next investigate the clothing of 

 earth's children to find shoddy everywhere, 

 and the cheap and worthless passing for 

 the valuable. Even the fertilizers which 

 the farmer spreads on his fields would bear 

 the touch of the defilement of the adul- 

 terator. 



But we think his disgust would reach an 

 unusual height on finding that even the 

 grease of the despised hog bad not escaped 

 the pollution of the adulterator — that no 

 creature is so lowly or so filthy but that 

 filthier hands will adulterate its products 

 with something cheaper and nastier, and 

 palm ofl" the deception on a non-suspecting 

 public, provided only and always that by 

 deceiving the public aforesaid, they can 

 increase their own gains. 



" If, disgusted and grieved with this 

 revelation of systematic and open adultera- 

 tion, he should read in the telegraphic 

 dispatches that at the National Capitol a 

 Bill had been introduced not to prohibit 

 this systematic adulteration of food, but to 

 compel the adulterators to brand it with its 

 own proper name and ingredients, he would 

 betake himself to Washington and hover as 

 an unseen presence around the committee 

 of agriculture — he would learn some things 

 that might well make him wonder whether 

 honesty was, after all, anj'thing but an 

 intangible, poetic sentiment instead of a 

 guide to human conduct. 



"We can imagine the mental replies 

 which our supposed visitant would make to 

 the sophistries of this gang of adulterators. 

 When it is urged that the product was pure 

 and healthful he would say : ' Why not 

 pass under its own name ?' When it is 

 urged that it is actually better than pure 

 lard, he would think : ' Why, then, should 

 this superior article, this vegetable oil 

 distilled in the alembic of nature from the 

 beams of a Southern sun go sneaking 

 around the world bearing the brand of the 

 swine V When it is urged that this protest 

 against congressional action is a great 

 philanthropic movement to give the black 

 man a chance to prosper by furnishing a 

 market for the refuse of his cotton crop, he 

 would say : ' What a miserable pack of 

 hypocrites is this that dare pollute with 

 their unclean presence the temple of 

 liberty ?' And then thinking of the million 

 farmers over the prairies of the West who 

 are yearly robbed by this unclean horde of 

 adulterators, and of the millions of labor- 

 ers in America and Europe who are 

 deceived and imposed upon by the fraud of 

 adulterated lard, he would scrutinize the 

 committee, visit the House and Senate,and 

 gaze into the inner souls of the members, 

 and ask himself : ' How many of these 

 men will be true to their constituents, to 

 the men who have given them homes, and 



satisfied thcni with bread, and will vote for 

 the Conger lurd bill ? How many of them, 

 when this measure comes up for passage, 

 will vote for delay or postponement, or to 

 recommit, or offer other dilatory motions 

 or amendments, and how many of them 

 will truly and honestly vote for the inter- 

 ests of the men who sent them here i How 

 many of them will skulk and dodge, or do 

 nothing, and then go home and lament that 

 under the circumstances it was impossible 

 to pass a Bill to brand with its true name a 

 commodity that masquerades under a false 

 name on the shelves of every grocer, and 

 the table of every citizen ;' 



" We are not gifted with angelic vision, 

 and we do not know how manj' cowards 

 there are in Congress, or how many mem- 

 bers have ' grease ' In, and not on their 

 hands. But this we do know, that a member 

 of Congress that has not the sagacity to 

 see through the sophistry of his gang of 

 lobbyists against the Conger pure lard Bill, 

 or has not the manliness to stand by and 

 pass it, should never, while his head is hot, 

 have the opportunity to betray the people's 

 trust again. Let the weakness of the 

 ' Simple Simon ' be laid bare, and the mask 

 stripped off the hypocrite. It is no time 

 now to send inuo-?ent babes to do men's 

 work, nor allow time-serving hypocrites to 

 connive at the robbery perpetrated on an 

 industrious and long suffering people. 

 When Western congressmen come home to 

 be judged by their constituents at the 

 November election, let there be no smell of 

 cotton-seed oil on their hands. The negro 

 must not put his toot in the food on the 

 white man's table. Adulteration must 

 bear his own shame." 



Uoolittle on llneen-Rearing-. 



Queens can be reared in the upper stories 

 of hives used for extracted honey, where a 

 queen-excluding honey-board is used, which 

 are as good, if not superior, to Queens 

 reared by any other process ; and that, too, 

 while the old Queen is doing duty below, 

 just the same as though Queens were not 

 being reared above. This is a fact, though 

 it is not generally known. 



If you desire to know how this can be 

 done — how to have Queens fertilized in up 

 per stories, while the old Queen is laying 

 below — how you may safely introduce any 

 Queen, at any time of the year when bees 

 cay fly — all about the different races of 

 bees — all about shipping Queens, queen- 

 cages, candy for queen-cages, etc. — all 

 about forming nuclei, multiplying or unit- 

 ing bees, or weak colonies, etc. ; or, in fact 

 everything about the queen-business which 

 you may want to know, send for " Doolit- 

 tle's Scientific Queen-Rearing;" a book of 

 170 pages, which is nicely bound in cloth, 

 and as interesting as a story. Price, $1.00. 



4'Silir»riiiii lloii«-y <'r«n».— From 

 the I'lii-ilir Itiinil I'rcss we copy the fol 

 lowing ab<)\it the honey crop of San Diego 

 county, California : 



The first carload of the season's honey 

 crop, says the San Diego i'nion. pulled out 

 June 8 for Boston, taking the su|)erior e.t- 

 tracted honey for which San Diego county 

 is famous. As this is one of the even num- 

 bered years, a large yield is anticipated, 

 and although brush fires have interfered 

 somewhat, it is expected that the yield will 

 be nearly .'iOO.OOO pounds greater than in 

 1S89. 



A honey dealer who has carefully watched 

 the industry, in which he was actively en- 

 gaged for 20 years previous, asserts that 

 the county's crop last year was about 

 1,000,000 pounds, although a honey buy- 

 ing firm at San Francisco has stated it to 

 be but aOO,000 pounds. In contradiction 

 of this, he names one producer alone who 

 supplied the market with 300,000 pounds, 

 and with what he knows of the other api- 

 aries, is satisfied that 1,000,000 pounds is 

 not an over estimate. 



The light rainfalls in 1877. 1879. and 

 1885 caused a total failure of the honey 

 crop. The best years were 1874, 1876, 

 1878, 1880 and 1884, when some .3,000,- 

 000 pounds were produced— the county's 

 largest crop. Then 1886 and 1888 were 

 good years, and 1890 is expected to make 

 a record. The bee-ranches of the county 

 extend pretty well over the back country, 

 including the San Jacinto region, Elsinore, 

 Temecula, Fallbrook, Encinitas. Del Mar, 

 Pala, Poway, Bear Valley, Escondido, 

 Bernardo, Santa Ysabel, Ballena, Nuevo, 

 Fostar's Lakeside, San Vicente, Campo, 

 Jamul, Jamacha, Sweetwater, etc. 



The wholesale price now ranges from 7 

 to 12 cents a pound for comb honey, and 

 from 4 to 6 cents for extracted, which is a 

 little under the pi-ices of 1889. 



CIul>»< of 5 New Subscriptions for -$4.00, 

 to any addresses. Ten for $7.50, if all are 

 sent at one time. 



Help in tlie Apiary.— Mr. C. H. 



Dibbern, of Milan, Ills., gives the following 

 in the Western Plmvmnn, as his experience 

 in hiring help for the apiary : 



I have often heard bee-men say th^t they 

 would like to keep more bees, or to start 

 out-apiaries if they could but get reliable 

 help. The}' seem to take for granted that 

 such help cannot be secured. How do they 

 know this * Have they ever tried to secure 

 such help, by a little advertising, as we 

 have '. When we decided to start our Mill 

 Creek apiarj', we needed more help, and 

 put a little notice in the "want" column 

 of one of our leading bee-papers, and that 

 brought us over one hundred enquiries. 

 These we "sifted " until we had about a 

 dozen of the apparently most desirable 

 applicants, and to these we put further 

 questions as to ability, sobriety, skill, etc., 

 and again sifted out one-half. When we 

 got down to six, there seemed to be little 

 choice, and we selected the two that 

 appeared to be the most desirable. In due 

 time the boys came, and we soon found 

 that we had made a mistake as to one of 

 them. For a few days he worked well 

 enough, but we found he was a high flyer. 

 He could talk of nothing but base-ball, 

 croquet, camping out, and enjoying himself 

 generally. Well, just four days of work 

 finished him, when he concluded to return 

 to his father's house, where we presume the 

 fatted calf was killed in honor of the event 

 in due time. Well, we at once wrote to 

 one of the others, and now have two as 

 good helpers as one could wish. I have no 

 doubt had 1 wanted a dozen helpers 1 could 

 have had them all out of those who applied 

 to me, and got all good and deserving 

 young men 



