culpable with the manufacturer of that 

 stuff. We reported several of them to 

 A. Brunnel, Commissioner of Inland 

 Eevenue, Ottawa, Ont. He sent notice 

 to Toronto for them to take samples, 

 etc. We were shown and told by the 

 officials that nearly all kinds of food 

 were adulterated,that very few analyzed 

 were found pure, and now honey was 

 added for the first time in America. 



Brother bee-keepers, wake up and 

 sign the petitions to Congress, getting 

 all you can to sign them. Write to your 

 Congressmen and continue thus until 

 we have a law to protect ourselves from 

 frauds in food, as we already have a law 

 against frauds in money. If the 

 counterfeiters of money injure the pub- 

 lic wealth, the counterfeiters of food 

 injure the public health. When we as 

 bee-keepers, get a law passed which 

 will protect us, we must report every 

 case of adulterated sweets, each one 

 watching his immediate vicinity. 



New Boston, 111. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



Queens Mating in the Hive. 



BY H. L. JEFFREY. 



In the November number of Jour- 

 nal, Mr. W. Emerick"s mention of his 

 wingless queen leads me to pen the 

 results of what were at first accidental, 

 and I afterwards tried as experiments. 

 I had tried most of the plans given for 

 artificial fertilization with but little sat- 

 isfaction until 1876. In September, I 

 sent to Mr. Vaughn for two queens ; one 

 of them I introduced into a full colony ; 

 the other I put into a two-frame nucleus, 

 to keep till I should get time to drive a 

 swarm from a populous black colony in 

 a box hive. One of the frames in the 

 nucleus contained brood ; the other was 

 empty comb, with a patch of drone in 

 the center, perhaps 200 cells ; this had 

 eggs in as well as the worker, and the 

 brood was well capped and was perhaps 

 two weeks old; they had a fight and I 

 shut the entrance to admit but a single 

 bee at a time. In a few days I exam- 

 ined and put in a bottle feeder. I 

 noticed that the queen was gone and a 

 queen cell had been started about two 

 days. Then I shut the hive up tight, to 

 see how long they would live. It was 

 nearly or quite the 1st of October and 

 I did not go near them again for 

 between two or three weeks when I 

 again opened it and found eggs depos- 

 ited regularly in the worker comb. I 

 watched the larvye until it emerged, 

 and all were workers. This was acci- 

 dent number one. 



Accident number two was an extra 



light-colored queen that I clipped the 

 wings of, so that I might try drones 

 from a virgin queen, and she fooled me 

 by mating, and in 1877, I sent to Mr. 

 Vaughn, for 12 queens for parties that 

 had never tried introducing ; they 

 arrived Saturday afternoon, too late to 

 be introduced, so I put 6 of them into 

 some nuclei that I made out of 2 black 

 colonies to keep them till I could notify 

 the parties they were ordered for. 

 After I took them out, I put some combs 

 •into two of the hives to shut them up 

 from moths and mice, and I left the few 

 bees that were in hives and a handful 

 of drones to keep them as long as possi- 

 ble, that I might have them a few weeks 

 afterward ; both hives reared queens 

 and mated in the hives. In both cases 

 I nailed fine wire over every entrance 

 and ventilation, making it impossible 

 to get in or out. 



During the past season I tried it three 

 or four times with success, though lean 

 re-call but one failure out of either 8 or 

 9 experiments and accidents. I do not 

 consider it anything that can be made 

 of practical use, but I shall continue to 

 try experiments. Will Mr. Hasbrouck 

 please tell us why it is necessary to put 

 the queens into hives to let them lay. 

 as long as he knows that they are mated? 



Woodbury, Conn. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



The use of Glucose for Adulteration. 



BY A. E. WENZEL. 



With commendable virtue you reite- 

 rate and proclaim against the use of 

 what some would call an estimable 

 quality of glucose, at times palmed off 

 for honey — by some whose elastic con- 

 sciences are only to be compared by the 

 size of their ravenous pockets. Prof. 

 Kedzie, of Michigan (by the way Michi- 

 gan furnishes many whose impulses 

 dictate the real good of the general 

 public — vide Heddon's article on 

 vw Dealers in apiarian supplies" in Feb. 

 number), hits quite an effective rap 

 on the head of the growing (we would 

 we could say, waning), monstrous evil. 



It grieves us to notice the too easy 

 virtue of one of our largest dealers, — 

 whose business connection with the 

 world at large is renowned— apologizing 

 for the use of glucose in honey, because 

 people, "will buy, a mixture, and are 

 now putting a notice upon every jar 

 packed by them, they believe the con- 

 sumer has a right to know just what he 

 is getting I" Very good, if this be done 

 honestly and in good faith, very little 

 complaint could be offered against the 



