Aug. 24, 1905 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



601 



The oausf was ascertained to be a fungus similar to tbe one 

 (OiJium albicaus) which attacl<s ilio mouth of infants. 



Prof. Leucl<art has also described a fungus (Oidium 

 Leuckarli) which causes injurious, but not disastrous, effects 

 in the intestines of bees. 



Much is to be studied yet. Knox Co , Tenn. 



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Report of the Chicago-Northwestern Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Couveutlon, held at Chicago, 111., 

 Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, 1904 



(Continued from pa^re '^^ \ 

 A NATIONAL HONEY EXCHANGE. 



"Is there any movement on foot regarding a honey ex- 

 change or any method whereby the National Association can 

 market its members' honey?" 



Pres. York — There was a movement started in St. Louis 

 to ora;anize a National Honey Producers' Association, and 

 there were some subscriptions of stock taken. 



Dr. Miller — But not for the National? 



The President — It was started in the National conven- 

 tion. 



Dr. Miller — I think you are right that there was a move- 

 ment started there to get up a honey exchange, but not that 

 the National was to do anything about it. 



Mr. Whitney — From the report which was sent me I 

 think the Doctor is right. There was an attempt to or- 

 ganize something inside of the National, or by individuals 

 who belonged to the National becoming stockholders of the 

 new corporation if it was formed, for that purpose. 



CASH FOR PROOF OF ADULTERATED COMB HONEY. 



"I suggest that this Association offer $500 for two 

 pounds of comb honey that is proved to be adulterated." 



Pres. York— I don't know who suggested that, or where 

 the $500 is to come from, but the intention no doubt is all 

 right. It is proposed that this Association offer $500 for 

 two pounds of comb honey. I suppose it is meant two 

 pounds that the bees didn't make. What are you going to 

 do with it? 



Mr. France — I think nearly all here are members of the 

 National and this was threshed over very thoroughly at St. 

 Louis. I don't know why it should be brought up again. 

 We know that manufactured or so called artificial lonib 

 honey has not been made or placed upon the market, and 

 there is no necessity of agitating that matter here at length. 



Mr. Wilco-x — I read the proceedings of that convention 

 at St. Louis, and I think all who have read it understand 

 if anything is to be done it will need to come in a little 

 different form from this. But I hardly see the necessity or 

 advantage of trying to do anything. But if wc do, we should 

 need to put it in proper form or else wc would cre.it' .\ 

 wrong impression and say something we didn't intend. 



Mr. Whitney — It seems to me it would be better tn let 

 the individual who manufactures that pound of honey t.ike 

 the A. I. Root Company's $1,000 for it. I understand they 

 have an offer, and have had it for years, to pay $1,000 to 

 anybody who produces the proof. If I were going to maiin- 

 facture that pound of honey I would rather go to them, 



"What can this Association do to counteract the csil 

 effect of the publication of the manufactured-comb-lnMicy 

 story in the press of the country? Can we do anytlini"- 

 If so, what?" 



Mr. Dadant — Publish statements to the contrary. 



Dr. Miller — I doubt very much the ability of this A"- - 

 ciation as an association to do anything, but I don't at all 

 doubt the ability of the individual members to do soniei' 

 by working through the local press. They can do a .• 

 deal in that direction. I doubt the wisdom of any 

 on the part of this Association. 



Mr. Whitney — On that question I have somcthni.^ 

 teresting — to me, at least. I heard of a mei'chant in 



city who sold a lady a case of honey, and the next day 

 she sent it back and came in in a day or two after to tell 

 him she had se:-,t that honey back. She said, "That is manu- 

 factured honey. It came from South Water street ; it was 

 made by machinery, and I never bought any such honey as 

 that." He told her that she was mistaken, and convinced 

 her it was not manufactured ; that it was put in by the bees. 

 She finally consented to let him send the honey back to her 

 house. But there are plenty of people who really think that 

 there is plenty of manufactured comb honey on the market. 

 I meet them at home; intelligent people on everything else 

 but bees and honey ; they don't know anything about it. 



Mr. Moore — Some of your may think we are threshing 

 this thing out at unnecessary length. My specialty has 

 always been honey for private families. Some of us visit 

 the people who eat our honey on their tables, and you will 

 all admit that they are not quite the biggest chumps on 

 earth that are running the city of Chicago, large and small, 

 rich and poor : and I want to tell you, from all those people, 

 of all conditions in life, comes this question, "Is comb honey 

 really manufactured?" And they ask me as an expert to 

 answer it. "Is most of the honey on the market manu- 

 factured?" This comes to me in one hundred and one 

 different ways. I have one answer. Of course I say that 

 all comb honey is pure honey. Some of you perhaps do not 

 come in touch with these folks in the way I do, and you 

 think it is a question that we are putting too much stress 

 upon, but every one of you ought to carry the idea through 

 your lives, that whenever you can you want to strike a blow 

 in favor of the right. Dr. Emma Walker, in the Ladies' 

 Home Journal, put forth a statement in which she said that 

 one of the largest uses o'f paraffin was to make manufactured 

 comb honey. Then and thereupon I wrote to her contra- 

 dicting it, and I wrote to the editor saying that it was abso- 

 lutely false, and it was wrong for any one in her position 

 to put forth a statement that would injure a large number 

 of people. Mr. York also wrote to the editor a personal 

 letter. We both got answers. I suppose that that depart- 

 ment was flooded with letters from all over the coimtry. 

 We looked with a great deal of interest to see what would 

 be done. Perhaps two months afterwards came the answer, 

 an article in which she summed the thing up and said this 

 and that authoritv said it was so ; and that the Encyclopedia 

 Britannica said that there was manufactured comb honey, 

 and gave four or five different authorities stating that comb 

 honey was manufactured and paraffin was largely used. But 

 she summed it up. at the bottom by saying that "after talk- 

 ing with practical bee-keepers and considering the matter in 

 all its points we have decided that there is no sucji thing, 

 and never has been, as manufactured comb honey." It was 

 the result of our influence. Now, all of you go through life 

 and remember to use your influence wherever you see the 

 opportunity. Wherever you see in the newspaper an article 

 with this falsehood, go to the newspaper, or write, and have 

 it contradicted, if possible, and do not let a single instance 

 go by of contradicting this infamous lie that has been passed 

 around from one end of the world to another. That is the 

 way in which this Association, and we as individuals, can do 

 good; whenever we see a head, hit it! 

 (Continued next we'k.) 



Honey as a Health-Food.— This is a le.page honey- 

 pamphlet intended to help increase the demand for honey. 

 The first part of it contains a short article on " Honey as 

 Food", written by Dr. C. C. Miller. It tells where to keep 

 honey, how to liquefy it, etc. The last part is devoted to 

 " Honey-Cooking Recipes " and "Remedies Using Honey ". 

 It should be widely circulated by those selling honey. The 

 more the people are educated on the value and uses of honey 

 the more ifioney they will buy. 



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Some Facts About Honey and Bees.— This is the 



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 lished on pages 581-82 of the American Bee Journal for 

 Aug. 25. 1904. We have republished it in 4-page leaflet 

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