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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



apiary, that efiectually brakes the force 

 the wind. 



I would here ask friend Dadant if Ed- 

 ward Uhle of Switzerland, is in Italy — if 

 so tlien Uhle's queen according to hira are 

 pure Italians. I have never received a 

 queen from Uhle that was not a hybrid. 

 Nesbit, Winder, and a few othere got Hy- 

 brids of Uhle. I have had but two im- 

 ported queens to suit me in every respect, 

 I can rear better ones, but still I am in 

 favor of importing, and would not do 

 anything to discourage it. Friend Da- 

 dant may have imported good ones. 

 There is rascality somewhere but I rather 

 think it is all with the European bee-keep- 

 ers, sending us hybrids when they could 

 have sent pure Italians. Can it be that 

 they are ignorant of the test of purity. I 

 always take the three yellow band as the 

 most acceptable test of purity. 



Lowell, Ky. K. M. Argo. 



Adulteration of Honey. 



Seeing a good deal of discussion in the Bee 

 Journals on the adulteration of honey, and 

 being quite extensively engaged in raising 

 honey lor market, both box and extracted, I 

 thought perhaps a few words to the many 

 leaders of the Bee JouiiNAL who are en- 

 gaged in the Apiarian business, might not 

 amiss. 



In the first place, if bee-keepers who are 

 engaged in raising honey for market will 

 take a little more pains to create a home 

 inarket, instead of sliipping all they raise to 

 Chicago and other cities, to honey dealers, 

 to have it adulterated and make tive or six 

 pounds out of one of honey or even more 

 than that, and then for these honey men to 

 ship it back wliere it was raised and sell it 

 at double the price paid for it, looks like 

 making a good deal from the honey raisers. 

 Let every one who raises honey next sum- 

 mer see that every groeery is well sup- 

 plied with good box and extracted honey, 

 and there will be no trouble in selling all the 

 honey at home. If the grocers will not buy 

 it, ask the liberty to place it in their store, 

 which no one will object to; allow them a 

 commission on all sales from lU to 15 per 

 cent and there will be no chance for it 

 to be fixed up with glucose, starch, and slip- 

 pery-elm bark &c. Congress should make a 

 law governing the adulteration of all articles 

 for family use, placing a heavy fine or im- 

 prisonment or both for adulterating any- 

 thing. There is no country on the tace of 

 the glol)e where adulteration business is 

 carried on as it is in the United states. All 

 kinds of spices, l)aking powder and other 

 things too numerous to mention are shame- 

 fully "fi.xed up." 



1 put into winter quarters 105 good stocks 

 of Italians, ail riglit ; but the hardest time 

 is to couit\ I hope to come out ali right ; it 

 looks as if tiie i)artles who write; for tlie 

 Bee JoiriiNAi, were ashamed to have their 

 place of business known. Let every one 

 give tluiir address in full, so that we may 

 know where they live. \Vm. Ukie- 



Aurora, 111. 



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