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VOL XXXIII. CHICAGO, ILL, FEB. 22, 1894. 



NO. 8. 



A <]>reat iTIeeting' is what Prof. Cook 

 says they had last month at the California 

 State convention in LosAngeles. He further 

 wrote: "I assure you, apiculture is by no 

 means dead in California. I never was in 

 a more wide-awake meeting of any kind." 

 Prof. Cook is now the President of the 

 California State Association, and we may 

 expect to see apieultural things boom out 

 there. He has kindly sent some very in- 

 teresting comments on their recent conven- 

 tion that we will publish soon. 



liVliere Honey Comes From was 



the subject of an address given by Mr. R. 

 McKnight before the Ontario Bee-Keepers' 

 Association last month. He argued that it 

 originally comes from the atmosphere, the 

 leaves of plants and trees "breathing" it 

 in. We hope soon to be able to give the 

 main portion of Bro. McKnight's entertain- 

 ing address, which showed that he had 

 given the subject much study. 



Coml> Honey in tlie IJ. S.— Some 

 time ago we announced a scheme proposed 

 by Gleanings, through which it was thought 

 that a pretty correct estimate could be 

 made of the amount of comb boney an- 

 nually produced in the United States. It 



now seems that the scheme could not be 

 made to work, as some manufacturers de- 

 clined to give their annual output of sec- 

 tions ; and Bro. Root also thinks, after all, 

 that the " result " might be " but little bet- 

 ter than a good guess." So thought we at 

 the time the scheme was suggested, and yet 

 we felt that probably in helping it along, 

 there might come out of the effort a way in 

 which something reliable could be derived. 

 But now it seems the only way to get at 

 the facts in the case, will be to have the 

 information secured through the township 

 assessors, as suggested by Mr. C. H. Pond, 

 on page 134. 



Adnlteraf ion— Sontliern Qneens 



—Bro. J. P. West, President of the Min- 

 nesota State Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 wrote us as follows on Feb. 5th : 



Friend York : — I wish to thank you for 

 the notice you gave of the meeting of the 

 Minnesota Bee-Keepers' Association, which 

 was held in Minneapolis on Jan. 10th, 11th, 

 and 12th. We had an excellent meeting, 

 there being about 30 members present, and 

 the Horticultural Society, which was in 

 session all the week, had the best and most 

 enthusiastic meeting they ever held. 



I inclose a copy of the law passed last 

 winter by the Legislature of Minnesota in 

 relation to the adulteration of honey. By 

 an unfortunate oversight the State Dairy 

 and Food Commissioner was not aware of 

 the law, until you published Mr. Holmberg's 

 letter in the Bee Journal, in relation to 

 Mr. Hunt's action, but since that time the 

 Commissioner has been doing good work. 

 The action of Mr. Hunt in adulterating 

 honey at the wholesale house of Smith & 

 Austrian, in St. Paul, has aroused the bee- 

 keepers of the State. Our association does 

 not believe in adulteration of honey, or 

 any article of food. The law will be 

 amended next winter, so that such fellows 

 as Mr. Hunt can be brought back to the 

 State, after leaving it, like other criminals, 



