AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Paddock's Pure-Food Bill 



is before Congress, aud as there is some 

 inquiry as to its provisions, we will give 

 the following : 



A food or drink shall be deemed to be 

 adulterated — 



1. If any substance has been mixed 

 and packed with it so as to reduce or 

 lower or injuriously affect its qualities 

 or strength ; so that such product when 

 offered for sale shall be calculated and 

 shall tend to deceive the purchaser. 



2. If an inferior substance has been 

 substituted wholly or in part for the 

 article, so that the product when sold 

 shall tend to deceive the purchaser. 



3. If any valuable constituent of the 

 article has been wholly or in part ab- 

 stracted, so that the product when sold 

 shall tend to deceive the purchaser. 



4. If it be an imitation of, and sold 

 under the scientific name of, another 

 article. 



5. If it be mixed, colored, powdered 

 or stained in a manner whereby damage 

 is concealed, so that such product, when 

 sold, shall tend to deceive the purchaser. 



6. If it contain any added poisonous 

 ingredient, or any ingredient, which 

 may render such article injurious to the 

 health of the person consuming it. 



This would apply to extracted-honey 

 when adulterated. The chief point is 

 that an article is condemned when it 

 deceives the public. It was the first 

 Bill introduced in the Llld Congress, 

 and hardly a day has gone by since its 

 introduction, that Senator Paddock has 

 not appealed to the Senate to let this 

 measure be considered. It ought to 

 pass both Houses of Congress, and be- 

 come a law. 



A Curious Ceremony is men- 

 tioned by a clergyman who lives upon 

 an estate in Switzerland, as having been 

 lately performed there with the bees. 

 He says : 



The proprietor of a large domain not 

 far from the mouth of the Rhone died. 

 As soon as life was extinct, one of the 

 relatives went to the bee-hives and at- 

 tached a piece of crape to each hive, 

 saying to each, " The master is dead." 



On the day of the interment the same 

 relative again visited the hives ; took off 

 the crape, and carried to each hive some 



cake and some wine, which had remained 

 from the collation. 



Dipping a piece of cake in the wine, 

 he placed some at the eatrance of each 

 hive, each time repeating, "In the name 

 of the Father, and of the Son, and of 

 the Holy Ghost." 



He said that if it had not been done, 

 the bees would not have recognized their 

 new master, but would have left. 



A Swiss, however, informs me, that 

 the custom is general among bee-keepers, 

 but the belief is that if it were neglected 

 the bees would die instead of migrating. 



Comb Setter and Cells,— To 

 know how to call things by their right 

 names is an accomplishment, especially 

 when speaking of things apicultural. 

 How wide of the correct terms some 

 bee-keepers come, is shown by the fol- 

 lowing verbatim request received re- 

 cently by a dealer in apiarian supplies: 



"Dear Sir:— How soon can you 

 furnish comb setter and 1-pound cells ? 

 Give price per M, and for 250 cells." 



Comb setter and cells ! Could the 

 writer have meant " frames " or " foun- 

 dation," and "sections?" Perhaps he 

 did, but evidently did not know what to 

 call them. If such people are as ignor- 

 ant of the practical work of the apiary, 

 as of the use of the names of the articles 

 they must use, it is no wonder that fail- 

 ure is oftener met with by them than 

 success. It pays to acquaint ourselves 

 with everything relating to our voca- 

 tion, including bee-literature. 



Anotlier bee-book has reached our 

 desk. It is entitled, "First Principles in 

 Progressive Bee-Culture," by G. K. 

 Hubbard, of Fort Wayne, Ind. Price, 

 15 cents. It contains 68 pages, is well 

 printed and illustrated, and covers the 

 whole ground of the art of bee-keeping 

 in a condensed way. It is a new edition 

 of his smaller pamphlets, and is the 

 11th thousand. 



Busy BeeS) and How to Manage 

 Them, by W. S. Ponder. Price 10 cents. 

 For sale at this oflSce. 



