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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



A Patent has been granted to 

 Charles W. Metcalf, of California, for a 

 reversible honey-extractor. The combs 

 are placed in receptacles or boxes, 

 mounted at the outer ends of arms, 

 carried by a wheel in a can, and when 

 the wheel is swiftly revolved, the honey 

 is extracted by centrifugal force, and is 

 thrown through the wire sides of the 

 boxes on to the inner side of the can, 

 down which it runs. At intervals the 

 wheel is reversed and rotated in the 

 other direction to expel the honey on 

 the other sides of the combs. It is very 

 similar to several others recently con- 

 structed. 



Xlie Pure Food Bill.— On 



March 9 the Paddock Pure Food Bill, 

 says an exchange, passed the United 

 States Senate without a division being 

 called for, the many modifications made 

 in Committee of the Whole having pla- 

 cated all dangerous oppositions. 



The Bill, in its present shape, is un- 

 doubtedly an improvement on all pre- 

 vious attempts at this sort of legislation, 

 and as its enactment is evidently desired 

 by a great number of agricultural, in- 

 dustrial and other organizations, and by 

 many eminent authorities on the public 

 health, the House of Representatives is 

 now generally expected to follow the 

 example of the Senate, and give this 

 measure a place on the statute book at 

 this session of Congress. 



It provides for the organization in the 

 Department of Agriculture of a section 

 to be known as the food section of the 

 chemical divison to analyze samples of 

 food or drugs offered for sale in any 

 State or Territory other than where 

 manufactured, or in any foreign coun- 

 try, provided they be in original and 

 unbroken packages. 



It proliibits the introduction of food 

 or drugs adulterated or misbranded, 

 under a penalty not ex(;eeding .*fi200 for 

 the first offence, and not exceeding 

 $800 for each subsequent offence, and 

 by imprisonment for one year. 



Every person who manufactures for 

 shipment from any State or Territory 

 any drug or article of food is required to 

 furnish samples to agents of the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture. A refusal to do so 

 is punishable by a fine, not exceeding 

 $100, and not less than $10, or by im- 

 prisonment from 30 to 100 days, or 

 both. 



The manufacture or sale (knowingly) 

 of adulterated, impure or misbranded 

 articles of food shall, in addition to those 

 penalties, be adjudged to pay all the 

 necessary costs and expenses of inspec- 

 tion and analysis. 



A L,ie,travels faster than the truth, 

 and we are often inclined to think that 

 people will swallow a lie quicker than 

 the truth. Consequently it may take 

 years before the public can thoroughly 

 unders-tand that there is no truth in the 

 assertion that "artificial comb can be 

 made by machinery, filled with glucose 

 and capped by machinery ;" yet our 

 readers will now and then read or hear 

 the "lie" reiterated. Each and every 

 one who knows the facts in regard to 

 the slander, should do all he can to en- 

 lighten the public mind.— TFestcTH Plow- 

 man. 



Samples of one-piece sections are 

 received from the Wauzeka Manufactur- 

 ing Co., of Wisconsin. They have sent 

 us the first lot made with their "new 

 polisher," and the workmanship is quite 

 satisfactory. It makes no difference 

 how cross-grained the wood may be, the 

 sections come out perfectly smooth. 



"We L,earil from A. J. King that 

 the main honey Hows in Cuba occur in 

 January and February, and is secreted 

 by the cam peachy (logwood) and cam- 

 panea, or bell-llowor. 



Xlie Result of the work of the 

 bees, in the economy of nature, is just 

 so much clear gain to the human race. 



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