1900 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



95 



fail to write at once. The extract from 

 the letter, omlting all names, is as 

 follows : 



"Gentlemen : — The writer was in New 

 York yesterday, and found the extract- 

 ed honey market in very bad condition. 



Messrs. have 3,500 double cases 



in storage and $3,000 borrowed on the 



same. Messrs. have a big stock 



consigned, and Mr. has also a 



very good supply. It appears the 

 National Biscuit Co. have not bought 

 yet this year; when they do it generally 

 makes a big hole in the market. There 

 is a new enterprise started on the East 

 Side, in which they are adulterating by 

 the carload honey that will granulate in 

 three days. It has the appearance of 

 and tastes very much like honey; has 

 about ten per cent, of the pure article 

 in it. Twelve carloads have been turned 

 out in the last sixty days. It sells for 

 5}4 cents per pound." 



The National Bee-keepers' Association 

 is doing everything in its power to stem 

 the tide of adulteration of honey; and 

 we hope that, in the near future, it will 

 present some interesting and startling 

 facts. The condition of affairs, revealed 

 in the extract above, should merit the 

 careful consideration of every bee- 

 keeper — especially those who have not 

 joined the National Association, one of 

 the objects of which is to make the 

 mixing of glucose dangerous and un- 

 profitable. Membership costs only a 

 dollar, and one does not know how far 

 that dollar will go when combined with 

 other dollars from bee-keepers far and 

 wide. 



The state of affairs as indicated above 

 shows that extracted honey may be a 

 glut on the Eastern market "this coming 

 summer ; and if bee-keepers in that 

 portion of the country are wise, they 

 will turn their attention largely to the 

 production of comb honey, which cannot 

 now be bought in the open market for 

 love or money. It is gone, absolutely; but 

 pure, extracted honey is a glut in the 

 same market, just because twelve car- 

 loads of the adulterated stuff has been 

 turned loose within the last sixty days, 

 and which sells at 5^2 cents. 



I am placing this letter, giving the 

 full facts, names and addresses before 

 General Manager Secor, of the National 

 Bee-keepers' Association, hoping that 

 he may be able to do something to stop 

 the lascals who are perpetrating this 

 ^ wrong on the bee-keepers of the East. 



The injustice to honest producers 



resulting from such wholesale adul- 

 teration, must be apparent to all, 

 as it must also be that our plain 

 duty is to stop it. It is not as if 

 we had no representative organiza- 

 tion to deal with such problems; in 

 that case the matter would indeed 

 be serious. We may congratulate 

 ourselves on having an efficient 

 association at this time; and its 

 board and executive staff being 

 composed of men eminently quali- 

 fied to guard our interests with 

 vigilance and tact, should be a 

 source of satisfaction and con- 

 fidence. The case rests with the 

 producers themselves. Shall we ex-- 

 terminate the offenders and reap the 

 full rewards of our labor, or shall 

 we indifferently permit the very 

 foundation of our industry to be 

 stealthily withdrawn by those en- 

 gaged in the illegitimate practice 

 of adulteration? 



H. M. Jameson, Corona, Cal. , 

 uses a paint for hives made by mix- 

 ing red ochre, kerosene and crude 

 petroleum. Mr. Jameson finds the 

 combination very satisfactory, and 

 says the crude article may be had 

 in his country for $1.50 a barrel. — 

 American Bee Journal. 



Editor American Bee-keepek: I have 

 four colonies of hybrid bees; they 

 are rather cross. Last fall I packed 

 the four in one large box, facing them 

 toward the south-east. At this writing 

 they have been out but three or four 

 times; have plenty of honey, clean hives 

 and very few died during the long 

 winter. Yours, H. Haffneb. 



Leeper, Pa., Apr. 13, 1900. 



J. H. Martin, in Glemiings, says of bee 

 paralysis in California : "There is evi- 

 dently not so much as there was two 

 years ago, and at the end of two more 

 dry years there will not be a complaint." 



