GEORGE W. YORK, I 

 Editor. i 



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-To Bee-Culture. 



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VOL. XXXI. CHICAGO, ILL, JANUARY 19, 1893. 



NO. 3. 



Pennsylvania bee-keepers expect 

 to make a good exhibit at the World's 

 Fair this year. Read their advertise- 

 ment on page 68 of this number of the 

 Bee Journal. 



Please Don't send to us for bee- 

 keepers' supplies. We do not deal in 

 them. If in need of anything for the 

 apiary except a good bee-paper, just send 

 for the catalogues of some of our adver- 

 tisers. They will be glad to fit you out, 

 and do it well. 



Xhe Apiarian Hxhiliit of the 



State of Illinois at the Columbian Expo- 

 sition this year may be all right yet. 

 H(in. J. M. Hambaugh and Mr. Jas. A. 

 Stone, respectively President and Secre- 

 tary of our State Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, were to meet, on .Jan. 10th, a com- 

 mittee from the Illinois State Horticul- 

 tural Society, for the purpose of arrang- 

 ing to join forces to urge the Legisla- 

 ture for an appropriation for the exhibit 

 of both societies at the World's Fair. 

 We feel almost certain that the Legisla- 

 ture will grant their very just requests. 



That Sugar-Honey Fraud. — 



Although we have positively refused to 

 permit a discussion of the subject of 

 sugar-honey production in the Bee 

 JouKNAL, yet owing to the great number 

 of condemnatory letters we are receiv- 

 ing, we have decided to say something 

 more about it, and allow our correspon- 

 dents to express themselves on the only 

 side of the subject — for there is but one 

 side — and that is the one of uncompro- 

 mising opposition and condemnation of 

 even the slightest suggestion of feeding 

 sugar to produce honey. 



We do not believe so much in heaping 

 criticism upon the careless few who have 

 so foolishly helped on the nefarious 

 scheme of sugar-honey production, but 

 we do think that we cannot come down 

 too hard upon the idea itself. And if 

 this lollipop business should be persisted 

 in, we are ready to throw against it, and 

 upon it, all the power and force that the 

 old American Bee Journal may be 

 able to wield. 



The very suggestion of the production 

 and sale of comb honey from feeding 

 cane-sugar is the most prodigious wrong 

 against the honorable pursuit of bee- 

 keeping ever perpetrated ; and that such 

 ideas should be advanced and defended 

 by persons within the ranks of honey- 

 producers themselves, is entirely beyond 

 the comprehension of sane mortals. 

 Why, the notorious Wiley fable is indeed 

 a " pleasantry " compared to the flood- 

 gate of ruination that has been opened 



