130 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. [July. 



treasurer's report. into force. Mrs. Wright, the former 



^ , 1 J <Coo TT Dairy Commissioner, has met with 



Cash on hand ^22.17 bee-keepers and associations and 



$22 17 ^^^^^"^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ wilHng to do her 



^ ' ' part in having samples analyzed; how- 



„ , . J (t - „^ ever, the legislature did not allow 



Cash received $ 7-00 ^^ thing for the carrying out of that 



Cash on hand 92 ^Qrj^ 



„, , , , 1 J A „ ZZ Motion made and seconded that the 



Total cash on hand $7-92 report be accepted. The committee 



„ , . , ^ d- - ^ continued, and to report at our next 



Cash paid out $ 5-00 ^^^^-^^^ 



Cash paid out 16.25 



EXHIBITION COMMITTEE. 



„ , , . $21.25 Committee: A. Elliott, S. Francis, 



Cash on hand ^ p Rauchfuss, F. Drexel. 



* Mr. F. Rauchfuss: The committee 



q>22.i7 ^^ exhibition has, during the early 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CUBAN part of the season, sent out requests 



HONEY ^^ ^ great many bee-keepers of the 



state to prepare the exhibits for the 



Mr. F. Rauchfuss: I report the con- coming state fair. It was held at 

 ditions that I had found the previous Pueblo last fall. There was not a soli- 

 year. The past several months I made tary one to make an exhibit of the 

 a visit through the middle states, and bee-keepers of this Association, 

 visited some of the honey merchants Mr. Devinney: I like the report 

 again. I have not found the Cuban very well, but I don't like the results 

 honey in the comb, but some extracted of the work. I, therefore, move that 

 honey shipped in right along. We the report be accepted, and committee 

 find that it averages about 200 barrels be discharged. 



a week, weighing about 500 or 600 Mr. F. Rauchfuss: I think the bee- 

 pounds, ranging in quality from white keepers are not doing the square thing 

 to a very dark amber. A good many of by the committee. It is not right; 

 those that had gone into the business you are all obliged to help our As- 

 there have given it up again for per- sociation along and our industry by 

 sonal reasons, or for business reasons, making some kind of exhibit, and you 

 There are a few people there that are ought to lend a helping hand to the 

 making a good thing out of it. I committee when they are willing to 

 happened to speak to a bee-keeper do something. You don't have to go 

 that had been in Cuba and examined into your pockets very deep, and if 

 the conditions there, and as for him every one does something we will have 

 he would rather be excused from keep- a fair exhibit. Now, I can speak 

 ing bees there. from personal experience; the exhibit 



LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. ?^ ^oncy and bccswax at our state fair 



has paid every person that had done 



Mr. F. Rauchfuss: I want to call anything, in the way of premiums and 

 the attention of the members of the reputation as an up-to-date bee-keeper. 

 Association to the fact that there is Mr. V. Devinney: I was down to 

 a pure food law before the legislature; the St. Louis Fair, and honey there 

 that it behooves us as bee-keepers to was not marked with producer's name, 

 find out what this pure food law is, and the reason perhaps that there 

 in fact, to get a printed copy of it, had been a delinquency of making ex- 

 that we ought to be able to secure hibits has been on account of that, 

 before the convention is over, and I think a better way to make an ex- 

 then it might be well to see if honey hibit is to take perhaps six pounds 

 is included in the law. The present of honey as sample of honey produced 

 State Dairy Commissioner is suppos- by so and so of two tons of honey, 

 ed to be a chemist, and also the deputy or whatever amount, 

 is reported to be a chemist, and these ^^^ ^^ Continued Next Month.) 



two chemists should be posted on the 



matter of analyzing the honey and for 



the carrying on of other work, there The best is always the cheapest, 

 is hope that our pure honey law which This particularly applies to the bee- 

 has been a dead matter will be brought keeper. — Grant Stanley. 



