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Over 20 Years Ag^o the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal was published in 

 Washington, D. C, and even now we 

 receive requests for sample copies 

 directed to that place. Through the 

 kindness of Mr. Frank Benton, of the 

 Agricultural Department, to whom was 

 referred a Bee Journal letter directed 

 to the Nation's capital city, it was for- 

 warded to the proper address last week. 

 This shows that the postal authorities 

 take great pains to have mail matter 

 reach its intended destination. What a 

 wonderful thing is our postal system ! 

 When we get the free delivery of mail 

 throughout the country, then farmers 

 will also receive greater benefits from 

 the Government which they help to 

 support. 



IVational Bee-Gazette is the 



name of another new 32-page monthly 

 periodical, published by Geo. W. Penn, 

 of Missouri. It is devoted to bees, home 

 and farm interests, and is nicely printed 

 and neatly gotten up. This is the time 

 for the blooming of flowers, and nat- 

 urally new papers now blossom, too. 



Brother Muth, of Cincinnati, O., 

 whom we mentioned on page 697 of 

 last week's Bee Journal when com- 

 menting upon the new phase of ^he 

 " Wiley lie," has written us a letter 

 about the matter, a portion of which we 

 copy below. All bee-keepers know very 

 well that Brother Muth knows what he is 

 talking about, whenever he says any- 

 thing. The following is his comment 

 upon Wiley's " Report :" 



Some years ago, when I had a collec- 

 tion of different qualities of honey, such 

 as clover, basswood, buckwheat, Span- 

 ish-needle, golden-rod, etc., made up for 

 the instruction of our bee-keeping 

 friends, I left them with Prof. Wiley, at 

 his request. He gave us his report at 

 the American National Bee-Keepers' 

 meeting at Flint, Mich., if I remember 

 correctly. The best that Mr. Wiley 

 could say of the samples was, that they 

 were adulterated, and that one was 

 probably pure. Now, I knew that Prof. 

 Wiley was wrong, for I knew that every 



sample was pure honey, l. e., if there is 

 pure honey at all, or if we know any- 

 thing. 



I was disgusted with the result of the 

 analyses, and refused to send Prof. 

 Wiley any more samples. He may be 

 an efficient chemist, and I do not wish 

 to believe that he is malicious and preju- 

 diced against me, but — I am no adul- 

 terator ! 



Prof. Wiley's chemical tests should not 

 be considered conclusive until further 

 tests have been made. I have read of 

 his reports — the articles most damaging 

 against me only ; my time and aroused 

 feeling prevented me from reading more. 

 But from a favorable review of Prof. 

 Wiley's reports, by Prof. Cook, of the 

 Michigan University, at Lansing, I see 

 that most of my samples were pro- 

 nounced genuine. I cannot reconcile 

 this with my knowledge of the fact that 

 all must be either pure or adulterated, 

 because all our small packages are put 

 up in the same manner, every time, and 

 have been so for years. 



Prof. Scovell refers to the machine 

 with which bee-keepers extract their 

 honey, and says, referring to me : " The 

 machine alluded to in his label is, un- 

 doubtedly, the converter in which corn- 

 starch is changed into glucose,." etc. 

 This quotation seems malicious, and out 

 of place. Is Prof. Scovell ignorant of 

 the existence of the machine which is 

 employed by bee-keepers to extract their 

 honey from the combs ? 



Our store and warehouse, as well as 

 our packing arrangements, and every 

 package of honey in our possession, are 

 open for inspection to every respectable 

 visitor. We have no secrets. 



Charles F. Muth. 



Xlie "World's Fair announce- 

 ment of apiarian arrangements, men- 

 tioned on page 695, to be In this issue 

 of the Bee Journal, came from Dr. 

 Mason too late for publication this week. 

 Next week we will devote considerable 

 space to World's Fair matters of inter- 

 est to bee-keepers. 



Australia again has a bee-paper. 

 It is called " The Australian Bee-Bulle- 

 tin," published monthly by Mr. E. 

 Tipper, of West Maitland, New South 

 Wales. It contains 16 pages, and is 

 edited by Mr. E. G. Harrison. It began 

 with the April issue. 



