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VOL. XXXI. CHICAGO, ILL, FEBRUARY 23, 1893. 



NO. 8. 



Xo 'Wisconsin Bee-Keepers. 



— We have received the following from 

 Mr. Franklin Wilcox, of Mauston, Wis., 

 which will interest every honey-producer 

 in that State : 



Mauston, Wis., Feb. 13, 1893. 



If the Wisconsin bee-keepers desire an 

 exhibit of honey from this State, they 

 must speak very soon. As I understand 

 it, they must decide what they will ex- 

 hibit, and report to me before March 

 1st, if they wish to get their names in 

 the Directory as exhibitors. I have been 

 asked to collect, prepare and arrange 

 the State exhibit. I think it very doubt- 

 ful if individuals can get space to ex- 

 hibit independent of the State exhibit. 



I want all who have any choice honey 

 or beeswax, to report to me at once, just 

 what they have. All expense of collect- 

 ing, transporting and arranging exhibits 

 will be paid out of the State appropria- 

 tion. Exhibitors furnish the honey and 

 wax. Franklin Wilcox. 



There is indeed no time for delay in 

 this matter. Let there be a prompt re- 

 sponse to Mr. Wilcox's appeal, so that 

 he may be able to make a creditable dis- 

 play for Wisconsin bee-keepers. 



"Bees and Honey" — see page 229. 



Final Statements, even on the 

 sugar-honey subject, must come some- 

 time, and we think it is best to let them 

 cease with this number, so far as the 

 Americ/n Bee Journal is concerned, 

 unless absolutely necessary to refer to 

 the matter again. Here is Dr. Miller's 

 reply to our editorial of last week : 



I will not ask the space % reply in 

 full to your editorial in last number, but 

 will make some effort to be brief, reply- 

 ing only to part of what seems to call 

 for reply. Allow me first of all to ac- 

 knowledge with pleasure the good-na- 

 tured spirit your have shown toward 

 myself personally, even in your hardest 

 thrusts. There is something always to 

 admire in an open foe, and when good- 

 nature is joined to that openness, it's 

 hard to draw the line between foe and 

 friend. Now I'm going to spoil that 

 compliment by saying, if in this case 

 you were only as reasonable as good- 

 natured — but then we're none of us 

 perfect. 



You say : "If bee-keepers can con- 

 scientiously feed sugar to bees to be 

 stored in combs, and then sell it for 

 honey, may they not almost as consis- 

 tently mix glucose with extracted honey, 

 and sell it for pure honey ? It differs 

 mainly in appearance — the results are 

 about the same." Friend York, please 

 put that paragraph in some safe place, 

 and in the year 1903 (that will be ten 

 years from now, and I hope you'll be 

 editor of American Bee Journal long 

 after that) — in 1903 read it over, and 

 see if you don't feel inclined to think it 

 was written during a fit of temporary 

 aberration. In the first place, mixing 

 and feeding are two very different 

 things. The books tell us that the cane- 

 sugar of nectar fed to the bees becqmes 

 honey, but we know that cane sugar 



