1903 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



17 



"Southern," so long as all Southern 

 honey is not dirty. Supposing, for ex- 

 ample, there existed in New York 

 City or in Cincinnati, a fraudulent hon- 

 ey dealer. Continue the supposition to 

 the point where it might be acknowl- 

 edged that it was impossible to obtain 

 a pure article of honey from this dealer 

 in New York or Cincinnati. Suppose, 

 again, Chicago and Boston were not 

 known to harbor any such fraudulent 

 element. Would the dealer in New 

 York or Cincinnati who did a square 

 and upright business, contend that hon- 

 ey of an inferior quality — honey that was 

 known to be adulterated and filthy — 

 should be designated habitually as 

 "New York," or "Cincinnati" honey? 

 Such a plan of quoting would be very 

 unjust to the fair business man in New 

 York or Cincinnati; but not one whit 

 more so than the present manner of 

 quoting dirty honey as "Southern." 

 Why not, instead of quoting "South- 

 ern," at two or three cents below the 

 ordinary market, when it is intended 

 to specify filthy stufT, "inferior," "dir- 

 ty," "low grade," etc., etc. Our lan- 

 guage is not so poor that appropriate 

 words are not to be found to say about 

 what is meant. 



The South produces hundreds of tons 

 of honey annually, which is not at all 

 inferior to the average product of the 

 Pacific Slope, or the Northern or New 

 England States. And the producers of 

 such goods are "sick and tired" of the 

 persistance with which some dealers 

 continue to call inferior honey, "South- 

 ern." 



inging, but we were unable to secure 

 photographs. 



For the benefit of the younger sub- 

 scribers who may not be able to identi- 

 fy all the pictures shown, and as an in- 

 troduction of the new faces to all, we 

 append a "key:" 



1. F. Greiner; 2. Thos. Chantry; 3. 

 James Fleddon; 4. C. S. Harris; 5. 

 O. O. Poppleton; 6 E. F. Atwater; 

 7. W. S. Hart; 8. John M. Hooker; 

 'J. Deacon Hardscrabble; 10. Arthur 

 C. Miller; H. John M. Rankin; 12. 

 Frederick B. Simpson; 13. W. W. Mc- 

 Neal; 1-i. Harold Hornor; 15. Adri- 

 an Getaz; 10 M. F. Reeve. 



The gentlemen comprising the group 

 have all won success and distinction 

 with the smoker, and most of them 

 have acquired additional honor with the 

 pen. Without exception their motives 

 in writing for the press is to assist in 

 the development of our industry, and 

 their pen-productions have not that ma- 

 chine-made air about them, which 

 characterize the writings of those who 

 put the pen to paper only for so much 

 a word, and market it where the high- 

 est cash price can be obtained. To such 

 men the bee-keeping fraternity owes a 

 debt of gratitude. To the unselfish ef- 

 forts of such men we must credit a 

 large proportion of modern apiarian 

 achievements, and to such magnani- 

 mous minds we must look with hope for 

 future progress and the ultimate estab- 

 lishment of apiculture upon a solid and 

 systematic basis among the recognized 

 industries of the United States. 



OUR CONTRIBUTORS. 



In presenting the pictures of sixteen 

 of the gentlemten who will help to make 

 the American Bee-Keeper for 1803, 

 which is shown on another page of this 

 number, our pleasure is mingled with a 

 degree of pride, which we believe is 

 justifiable; and we congratulate our- 

 selves and our readers upon our mutu- 

 al good fortune in having elicited such 

 an aggregation of experience and tal- 

 ent, not only in the line of practical 

 and scientific apiculture, but as enter- 

 taining and instructive writers. We 

 should have been pleased to show pic- 

 tures of others whose friendship has 

 been asserted, and from whose pens 

 our readers will have instructive read- 



ARE WE DOING OUR BEST? 



Reflecting upon the disadvantages 

 under which the past generation has 

 had to labor, in the acquisition of apia- 

 rian knowledge; and in view of the im- 

 proved methods, appliances, numerous 

 good periodicals and books within 

 reach of every present-day devotee, we 

 have many times been led to wonder 

 whether we fully appreciate and make 

 the best of our privileges. The thought 

 has again been aroused by the receipt 

 of a recent letter, from a struggling 

 bee-keeper in the interior of far-oflf 

 Japan. In order to learn what is be- 

 ing accomplished in the great round 

 world, this isolated aspirant of the 

 Land of the Mikado, is obliged, first, to 

 acquire a knowledge of a foreign 



