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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



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'•The beos of any colony must feel 

 tbeir need of a queen before they will 

 rear jiood queens. I do not mean to 

 say that they must be queenless, but 

 they must feel that their queen is fail- 

 ing and that they must replace her, 

 then they will exert their energies in 

 the effort to raise a queen that will 

 be all that is required of a queen," 

 says an old queen breeder, in Austra- 

 lasian Bee-Keeper. 



American honey dealers announce a 

 heavy supply of Mexican and Cuban 

 honey in competition with the home 

 product this year. r)ur 'Sister Repub- 

 lics" are administering large doses of 

 their excellent honey in genuine sis- 

 terly style. The doses are, in fact, 

 too large to swallow comfortably by 

 the American producer of the extract- 

 ed article. 



Of all the beautiful monthly maga- 

 zines none are quite so delightful to 

 the writer as "Country Life in Amer- 

 ica." published by Doubleday, Page & 

 Co., of Harrisburg. Pa., and the June 

 number is of unusual interest by rea- 

 son of a splendidly illustrated article 

 entitled, "Bee-Keeping for Pleasure 

 and Pi-ofit." by W. Z. Hutchinson. 



We believe more is now being writ- 

 ten in favor of the old German bee 

 than at any time since the advent of 

 the Italian "craze;" showing that the 

 rearing of German stock for the mar- 

 ket is a future possibility. The 

 "blacks" certainly have their admir- 

 ers, even in the Twentieth Century. 



Supplementing their market quota- 

 tions from Kansas City, June 9th, 

 Messrs. Hamblin & Sappington write: 

 *'Rain and no sun. Bees have made 

 no honey to date. White clover in 

 full bloom. Our beemen report hives 

 full of bees which, with sunshine, 

 would make up for lost time." 



Jamaican enterprise, in utilizing the 

 English markets, is proving a decided 

 success to the Jamaican bee-keepers; 

 but this same Jamaican enterprise is 

 the lament of the Australian producer 

 of honey. Taken all in all, the api- 

 cultural situation in Australia is not 

 exceptionally propitious. 



tem in marketing, is the wail of G. 

 Small, of New Zealand, in Australa- 

 sian Bee-Keeper. Mr. Small pleads for 

 organization among bee-keepers of 

 New Zealand, as a means of relief. 



"A Preliminary Investigation into 

 the Cause of the Infectious Bee Dis- 

 eases Prevailing in the State of New 

 York," by Dr. Veranus A. Moore and 

 Prof. G. Franklin White, has recently 

 been issued in bulletin form by the ag- 

 ricultural department of that state. 



Those who have foul brood to con- 

 tend with are afforded much comfort 

 through the recent experiments of Mr. 

 C. H. W. Weber, and the results of 

 formalin gas in the treatment of in- 

 fected stock, which he has recently 

 given to the bee-keeping world. 



Idaho has organized a State Honey 

 Producers' Exchange, and the Ameri- 

 can Bee-Keeper's esteemed young 

 friend and correspondent, Mr. E. F, 

 Atwater. of Boise, has been elected 

 treasurer of the new organization. 



Low prices, as a result of crude 

 methods of production and lack of sys- 



FOOD ADULTERATION. 



Press Bulletin No. 29, issued Septem- 

 ber 1st, by the Florida Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, deals in a very 

 logical manner and forcibl.v with the 

 above problem. Food for thought is 

 therein afforded the inhabitants of 

 other states than Florida, though the 

 bulletin is addressed especially to the 

 latter. We extract the following: 



Cotton seed oil is very useful, and 

 is not iniurious for use in salad dress- 

 ings and for other purposes where 

 such an oil is required, but to ship it to 

 Europe and there have it refined and 

 returned to us and placed upon the 

 market as pure olive oil, is most as- 

 suredly a fraudulent proceeding. Dis- 

 tilled or spirit vinegar can be manu- 

 factured at a very small cost, but the 

 ingenious manufacturer labels it "ap- 

 ple"' or "cider" vinegar, and it is re- 

 tailed to an unsuspecting public at the 

 price of a genuine apple vinegar. Pep- 

 pers and spices containing a high per- 

 centage of adulterants in the form of 

 hulls, beans, peas, ground olive stones, 

 etc., are sold as genuine. Coffee is adul- 

 terated with chicory, peas and imita- 

 tion coffee, made of pea hulls and a 

 wheat pi'oduct. Lard is adulterated 

 with beef fat and cotton seed oil and 



