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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



are more available, more interesting 

 and more practical for the school room, 

 and for teachers and pupils outside of 

 the school room, than certain other 

 branches of entomology that have been 

 more talked about and studied by 

 teachers and pupils. 



I desire to obtain information of ex- 

 perience with bees by teachers who 

 have kept bees, especially from the 

 "Nature Study" standpoint. Also 

 will young people under eignteen years 

 of age who have personally cared for 

 bees, please write me of their experi- 

 ence. 



Any suggestions from veteran bee- 

 keepers for interesting teachers and 

 pupils in bees will be much apppreci- 

 ated. 



Please inform me where straw hives 

 are in use in this country. 



Edw. F. Bigelow, Stamford, Conn., 

 Lecturer at Teachers' Institute and 



"Nature and Science" editor of the 

 St. Nicholas Magazine. 



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MAKE GLUCOSE SAIL UNDER ITS TRUE 

 COLORS. 



I have received from Harry Lathrop 

 the following communication: — 



Friend Hutchinson: — I would like to 

 point out some work for the National 

 Association to do. Occasionally an 

 article appears in one or the other of 

 the bee journals on the svibject of 

 sugars, honey, glucose and the chemi- 

 cal properties of each. These arti- 

 cles are among the more instructive 

 that we have had. I have tried to 

 write some along this line for the gen- 

 eral jiress in order to call attention to 

 the claims of honey as being superior 

 to other sweets, especially glucose 

 mixtures. I have called attention to 

 the great work that has been accom- 

 plished by the dairy interests in this 

 State in securing laws to control the 

 manufacture of imitation butter. The 

 dairy interests are strong and well 

 organized. They have secured pro- 

 tection for their industry. The bee- 

 keepers have a stronger case against 

 the glucose factories bnt are not strong 

 enough to protect ourselves. The in- 

 formation we have at present is not 

 definite. I propose that the officers of 

 the National make application to the 

 authorities at Washington, for a spe- 

 cial examination into the composition 

 and quality of the various cheap table 

 syrups that are being pushed to the 



front by powerful, organized capital. 

 That when we get the " information 

 from this high authority, we publish it 

 broad cast by every and all means, 

 especially by having bee-keepers pre- 

 pare short articles for their local news- 

 papers. If commercial glucose con- 

 tains traces of acid used in its manu- 

 facture, which is dangerous to the 

 health of consumers, let us see that it 

 gets what it deserves; a complete air- 

 ing. It never was claimed that imi- 

 tation butter was injurious to health, 

 but they got after it, and tiow it has to 

 sail under its own colors. This is im- 

 portant, don't turn it down. 



It is my impression that high author- 

 ities have pronounced glucose a whole- 

 some food, as has been done with oleo- 

 margerine, but the manufacturers 

 desired, of course, to sell their pro- 

 duct as butter. It was their intention 

 to deceive, and it would have been from 

 this source, deception, that chey would 

 have reaped their richest harvest, to the 

 loss of the butter maker, had not the 

 latter secured laws compelling the sale 

 of oleomargerine for exactly what it is. 

 We have laws now compelling the 

 branding and labeling of glucose mix- 

 tures in such a manner as to show the 

 true character of the mixture. If it is 

 true that such mixtures are unwhole- 

 some, then it ought to be known and 

 published, and their sale prohibited. 



THE MAKING OF THE REVIEW. 



As you sit down by the lamp light, 

 and read the Review through in per- 

 haps two hours, I wonder if you 

 realize the amount of work that has 

 been required to produce it. It may 

 be of interest to describe that work. 

 First comes the work of getting the 

 materials, the correspondence, the ex- 

 tracts, and writing the editorials. No 

 one not an editor can understand the 

 eagerness, the solicitude, thethorough- 

 ness. with which the whole country is 

 searched and scanned for desirable 

 correspondence. Correspondence, such 

 as it is, is easy to get. Every editor 

 has bundles of it, and drawers full of 

 it, but something new, something 



