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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



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possibilities of the great West. • Your 

 tickets will give you all the time you 

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 tain scenery — "The Switzerland of 

 America." Don't miss this opportunity 

 of seeing its wonders, and mingling 

 with its bee-keepers — the men and wo- 

 men with great big hearts. 



W. Z. Hutchinson, President. 



NEW YORK'S NEW LAW. 



That New York still continues to set 

 the pace, in the matter of protecting 

 apicultural interests, is clearly shown by 

 the following, from President W. F. 

 Marks, of the New York State Asso- 

 ciation of Bee-Keepers' Societies. The 

 Empire State may not have a promi- 

 nent apiarist in her legislature, as have 

 Michigan and Iowa, but in the Honor- 

 able Jean L. Burnett, member of assem- 

 bly from Ontario county, its bee-keep- 

 ers have a friend as staunch and able as 

 could be wished. Our bee-keepers yet 

 remember with gratitude the foul brood 

 law which came into effect April 4th, 

 1899, through the persistent efforts of 

 Hon. Jean L. Burnett: 



Chapinville, N. Y., Mar. 24, 1902. 

 Editor American Bee-Keeper: 



Dear Sir: I hand you copy of a law, 

 or that portion of the law relative to 

 honey, which has just passed the leg- 

 islature and been approved by the gov- 

 ernor. It explains itself. The duties 

 of the commissioner of agriculture and 

 penalties for violation of the agricul- 

 tural law are provided for in other 

 sections of said law, abstracts from 

 which are annexed. 



The Hon. Jean L. Burnett, of Can- 

 andaigua, who secured the passage of 

 our foul brood law, also introduced and 

 secured the passage of this law. Val- 

 uable aid was rendered by many promi- 

 nent members of the legislature; the 

 Department of Agriculture: the Direc- 

 tor of the Experiment Station and 

 many other advocates of nure food, to 

 all of whom due credit should be given. 

 Yours truly, 



W. F. Marks. 



THE ANTI-BOGUS HONEY LAW. 



An Act: To amend the agricultural 

 law, relative to prevention of disease 

 among bees and to add sections thereto 

 relative to honey, to be known as sec- 

 tions eighty-a and eighty-b. 



Section 2. Said chapter three hun- 

 dred and thirty-eight is hereby amend- 



ed by mserting therein, after section 

 eighty thereof, two new sections, to be 

 known as sections eighty-a and eighty- 

 b, and to read respectively as follows: 



Section 8o-a. Defining honey. The 

 terms "honey." "liquid or extracted 

 honey," "strained honey," or "pure hon- 

 ey," as used in this act shall mean the 

 nectar of flowers that has been trans- 

 formed by, and is the natural product 

 ot" the honey bee taken from the honey- 

 comb and marketed in a liquid, candied 

 or granulated condition. 



Section 8o-b. Relative to selling a 

 commodity in imitation or semblance of 

 honey. No person or persons shall 

 sell, keep for sale, expose or offer for 

 sale, any article or product in imitation 

 or semblance of honey branded as 

 ■'honey," "liquid or extracted honey," 

 "strained honey," or "pure honey," 

 which is not pure honey. No person 

 or persons, firm, association, company 

 or corporation, shall manufacture, sell, 

 expose or offer for sale any compound 

 or mixture branded or labeled as and 

 for honey which shall be made up of 

 honey mixed with any flther substance 

 or ingredient. There may be printed 

 on the package containing such com- 

 pound or mixture a statement giving 

 the ingredients of which it is made; 

 if honey is one such ingredient it shall 

 be so stated in the same size type as 

 are the other ingredients, but it shall 

 not be sold, exposed for sale, or offer- 

 ed for sale as honey; nor shall such 

 compound or mixture be branded or 

 labeled with the word "honey" in any 

 form other than as herein provided; 

 nor shall any product in semblance o! 

 honey, whether a mixture or not, be 

 sold, exposed or offered for sale as 

 honey, or branded or labeled with the 

 word "honey," unless such article is 

 pure honey. 



Abstract from the Agricultural Law 

 relative to penalties. 



Section 37. Every person violating 

 any of the provisions of the agricul- 

 tural law shall forfeit to the people of 

 the state of New York the sum of not 

 less than fifty dollars nor more than one 

 hundred dollars for the first violation 

 and not less than one hundred dollars 

 nor more than two hundred dollars for 

 the second and each subsequent viola- 

 tion. When such violation consists of 

 the manufacture or production of any 

 prohibited article, each day during 

 which or any part of which such manu- 

 facf.ire or production is carried on or 



