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that it is ahvays the commission mer- 

 chant's business to show the goods sent 

 him unless their quality is guai-anteed. 

 If I consign a commission man comb 

 honey saying, " I ship you twenty cases 

 of ' fancy white honey,' " then /guaran- 

 tee the honey, and he is not expected to 

 open it, nnless he chooses to do so. If it 

 is not all fancy white honey, but faced 

 with fancy white, and the "behind" 

 sections are No. i dark, or buckwheat, 

 then / make the commission merchant a 

 "scapegoat;" am "dishonest," "a 

 fraud," a " cheat," and a " doer of wick- 

 ed practices," (all of which have been 

 hurled at me); and there would be no 

 call for Bro. York to defend my "good 

 character, ' ' or for Bro. Hasty to speak of 

 " Dooliltle's honest practice and advice." 

 But if I consign the same number of 

 cases of honey, writing thus, " I ship you 

 twenty cases of honey to be sold on com- 

 mission, accordidg to you best judg- 

 ment," and fix up said honey in any way 

 to suit my.self, then it is his business to 

 show that honey to any prospective buy- 

 er and say, " There you have it; look it 

 over and see what you can give me for 

 it;" and if he does not do this, he is not 

 doing the part of a consignee, and is the 

 party of dishonest practices; for, as one ' 

 of the commission men truthfully says, 

 in reply to the (juestions in the American 

 Bee Journal, "The commission mer- 

 chant's buyer is depending on him.'' 

 Italics mine. And there is nothing that 

 can be considered dishonest in the con- 

 signor, or as wishing to make the ' ' com- 

 mission man a scapegoat" by any right- 

 eous law, or by an)' right thinking per- 

 son, who will lay aside his prejudices 

 long enough to look all around the ques- 

 tion. It is not " what will be thought of 

 Doolittle " that I care about, but when I 

 make a statement that is right, it is my 

 business to stand by that right and prove 

 it, even though the whole world says to 

 the contrary. 



Borodino, N. Y., Aug. 19, 1898. 



NOTES FROM FOREIGN BEE JOURNALS. 



F. L. THOMPSON. 



As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good 

 news from a far country. —fl/Sif. 



(Continued from last month.) 

 Speaking of obtaining wax cakes by molds 

 of paper alone, the editor says "The wax 

 cools quickly without a trace of cracks, 

 and is detached from the paper like a 

 kernel from a ripe peach. I melted cap- 

 pings in the solar extractor, and poured 

 the wax obtained, 31 lbs., into forty such 

 paper trays, of various sizes. The cakes 

 were clear, without a trace of dregs, be- 

 cause the wax in the trough of the solar 

 extractor remains liquid for hours in July 

 and August, thus giving time for all im- 

 purities and leavings of honey to settle 

 to the lowest part of the wax, which of 

 course is not poured into the trays." 

 F'rom this it appears that the solar ex- 

 tractor ma}' be made a perfect means of 

 purifying wax. I should not have thought 

 otherwise, had it not been for the edito- 

 rial paragraph on page 177 of the Review, 

 quoting C. 1'. Dadant. Evidently, how- 

 ever, Mr. Dadant refers to extractors of 

 the ordinary type, in which wire cloth 

 allows the melted wax to carry refuse with 

 it, which is then nicely distributed 

 through out the cake because it 

 cools nearly as fast as it runs through. 

 I use an extractor with a tin tray, perfo- 

 rated with holes near one end. These 

 holes are stopped up with refuse which I 

 never clean out, thus acting as a filter; 

 and although the wax cools quickly be- 

 low, it only shows dregs here and there, 

 while the intervals are perfectly pure. Bj' 

 running the wax through the second 

 time, I have secured reasonably clean 

 chunks of bright yellow wax, with which 

 I have made brood foundation good 

 enough for home use. The solar extrac- 

 tor does not work too slowly for me, hav- 

 ing this season furnished between fiftj' 

 and sixty pounds up to date, mainly from 

 old combs and scrapings. Only a mod- 

 ification is necessary to enable it to puri- 



