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VOL. XXXI. CHICAGO, ILL, FEBRUARY 2, 1893. 



NO. 5. 



REMOVAI. NOTICE. 



In order to get better accommodations, 

 and for greater convenience, we have 

 moved the American Bee JouRNAii into 

 a new office, at 56 Fifth Avenue, near 

 the northwest corner of Randolph St. 

 Our correspondents, and friends who may 

 desire to call upon us when in Chicago, 

 will please bear in mind our new place — 

 56 Fifth Avenue. 



Xbose Sug^ar- Honey Folks. 



— The following, which we have re- 

 ceived from Dr. Miller, of Marengo, 

 Ills., shows what he thinks of what has 

 been said in the Bee Journal about the 

 sugar-honey folks and their proposed 

 sugar-honey: 



The " Old Reliable " seems not to be 

 very strongly in favor of the sugar- 

 honey business. In fact, if my knowl- 

 edge of the English language is not at 

 fault, it is decidedly " f urnenst " the 

 whole business. That's all right, and 

 I'm with you. I like your attitude 

 toward the business. But I don't like 

 your attitude toward Prof. Cook and 

 Editor Hutchinson. Or, rather; your 

 seeming attitude, for I think I know all 



the parties well enough to know that 

 both Mr. Newman and Mr. York count 

 Messrs. Cook and Hutchinson as good, 

 straight men. 



And yet I am inclined to think that a 

 stranger to the controversy, seeing for 

 the first time a copy of the American 

 Bee Journal, would understand that 

 you both thought the two Michiganders 

 very bad men. True, you say, Mr. Edi- 

 tor, that you do not believe any harm 

 was intended, but the general reader is 

 very likely to lose sight of that when he 

 reads in the letters published such ex- 

 pressions as " nefarious swindle," " con- 

 temptible act," " advising adulteration," 

 and the like. 



Please, please, dear friends, don't let 

 us lose our heads, and above all, don't 

 let us lose our hearts, forgetting the 

 "mantle of charity." Let us look at 

 the matter dispassionately. But you 

 say, " How can we look at it dispassion- 

 ately when one of our own number 

 clearly and distinctly advises adultera- 

 tion at the very time we are making an 

 effort to kill it '?" But-, my friend, no 

 one advises adulteration, and are you 

 not just a little previous in saying so? 

 And then you reply, "Oh, well, I have 

 no patience with such namby-pambying. 

 Haven't they advised feeding sugar to 

 have it stored ? And isn't mixing sugar 

 with honey, adulteration, no matter 

 whether done with or without the inter- 

 vention of the bees ?" 



Now, look here ; don't go off at a tan- 

 gent. Don't yourknow that everything 

 depends upon the circumstances, and 

 especially the motives. And to your last 

 question I answer a blunt "No; not 

 always. Hundreds of good bee-keepers 

 have mixed honey and sugar to feed 

 bees for winter stores, and there was no 

 adulteration about it." 



These brethren believed (and please 

 don't forget that they two were not 



