AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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The State of Ohio, Cuyahoga Co., sx. 

 Personally appeared before me, John C. 



Hemmeter, a Notary Public for and 



within said County, Geo. G. Willard, 



who being by me first duly sworn upon 



his said oath says : 



That he is conducting a general merchan- 

 dise business at No. 270 Pearl Street, in the 

 city of Cleveland, County and State afore- 

 said. 



That on or about the 15th day of Novem- 

 ber last, aflQant received a shipment of 

 honey from James Heddon, doing business 

 at Dowagiac, in the State of Michigan ; 

 that said honey so shipped and received by 

 the affiant hereof was represented to be a 

 pure and unadulterated article ; in accord- 

 ance with said statement of representation 

 of its purity, did authorize the selling of 

 the same to the trajle by his agents. That 

 on or about the Tth day of Becember, fol- 

 lowing, one of the affiant's agents was ar- 

 rested by the State authorities, for offering 

 and selling an adulterated and impure 

 honey, and subpoenaed to appear for trial 

 before a legal tribunal, having jurisdiction 

 in the premises; affiant, in conjunction 

 with said agent, appeared in said Court on 

 the day set for trial, heard the hearing of 

 said agent, and all the witnesses in con- 

 nection with the case, including that of the 

 State's Chemist. 



That the judge, after summing up the 

 evidence, rendered a verdict as charged, 

 and fining said agent $35 and the costs of 

 prosecution (aggregating ths sum of .'!?64.85), 

 which amount the affiant hereof paid. 



Whereupon affiant procured another 

 sample out of said shipment, and delivered 

 same to Prof. Hobbs (being the Professor 

 of Chemistry at the Cleveland Medical Col- 

 lege) for further analyzation, who, upon 

 performance of the same, coincided with 

 the State Chemist, in pronouncing it 

 " adulterated and impure." Further, affiant 

 saith not. Geo. G. Willard. 



Sworn to before me, and by the said 

 George G. Willard, subscribed in my pres- 

 ence this ninth day of February, A. D. 1894. 

 John C. Hemmeter, 



N'otary Public. 



The so-called "cheap honey" Mr. Hed- 

 don has been advertising for a number of 

 years, together with his recent utterances 

 on the glucose question, and which we have 

 critcised, seem to give coloring to the state- 

 ments of the four different cJietnists. 



We have statements from other parties, 

 not depending upon analysis, but think best 

 to withhold them for the present. 



In conclusion, we would say that we have 

 given the facts for just what they were 

 worth, and the reader may draw his own 

 conclusions. A. I. R. 



Owing to a lack of space in this number, 

 we are unable to give before next week Mr. 

 Heddon's reply to the foregoing accusa- 

 tions, as we notice that in the following 

 issue of Glemdnyft he has attempted to ex- 

 plain matters. 



answered by 



Marengo, III. 



In this department will be answered those 

 questions needing immediate attention, and 

 such as are not of sufficient special interest to 

 require replies from the 20 or more apiarists 

 who help to make "Queries and Replies" so 

 interesting on another page. In the main, it 

 will contain questions and answers upon mat- 

 ters that particularly interest beginners.— Ed. 



Colonies that Store Section Honey. 



A farmer, who has been keeping bees for 

 a number of years, told me some time ago, 

 that the colonies we now have are not the 

 ones that store the honey for us, or, in 

 other words, that work in sections, but the 

 new swarms are the section workers. Now 

 I would like to ask whether this is true, and 

 if so, is there no way of making the old col- 

 onies work in the sections as well as the 

 new (that is, after they are through swarm- 

 ing)? H.O.J. 



Reeseville, Wis. 



Answer. — The bees you have now are not 

 likely to do anything in sections, for by the 

 time work commences in sections they will 

 probably all be dead— at least most of them. 

 Remember that bees don't live a hundred 

 years— in the busy season they only live 

 about six weeks. The colonies you now 

 have may, and may not, work in sections. 

 When they swarm, hive the swarm on the 

 old stand and move the old hive to a new 

 place, thus strengthening the swarm and 

 weakening the mother colony, and you 

 ^ay be pretty sure the old colony will not 

 work in sections, but if the season is good 

 the swarm will. On the other hand, if you 

 return the swarm to the old hive every 

 time it swarms, you may be pretty sure the 

 old colony will work in sections if the sea- 

 son favors. 



You see, it is very much a matter of 

 strength. If the swarm is the weaker of 

 the two, then you may count on the old one 

 doing the best work, and vice versa. But 

 what do you care which does the most, so 

 you get it ? I think most of those who 

 favor natural swarming expect to get their 

 ! principal surplus from the swarms, and 



