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GLEANINGS IN HEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 1.%. 



Home of the Honey-bees, and resolved to pay 

 us a visit. He speaks Spanish as his native 

 tongue, althouffh he belongs to that great di- 

 vision of the human family known as the 

 Malay. He also speaks French perfectly, and 

 a little English. After making a tour through 

 all the different rooms of this establishment he 

 could not express his surprise at the wonderful 

 development of apiculture in this country. Mr. 

 D. is a highly intelligent Christian gentleman, 

 and a living proof of the elevating influence of 

 Christianity and Western civilization. We 

 hope ho will always remember his visit here 

 with as much pleasure as we shall always re- 

 member him. He says there are no regular 

 hives used in his country, but still he is very 

 desirous of introducing our strains of bees there 

 as well as our hives. He has promised to give 

 us several articles in regard to his country as 

 soon as he returns— its flora, climate, and gen- 

 eral features. They will, of course, appear as 

 translations, as he writes in Spanish. 



HONEY STATISTICS UNKELTABI.K. 



We are often asked for statistics regarding 

 the amount of honey and beeswax annually pro- 

 duced in the United States, and, in some cases, 

 for some particular States. So far as we know, 

 there are none that have ever been made that 

 are at all reliable. Some fair guesses were 

 made; but later developments would seem to 

 indicate that these were very far from being 

 correct. There were a few statistics published 

 a few years ago by the government, but they 

 gave South Carolina the credit of producing 

 the largest amount of honey; but California, 

 by all odds the leader in honey-production, was 

 put at the bottom of the list. Of course, every 

 reader of our journal knows that this is mani- 

 festly incorrect. 



From the best information we have as honey- 

 buyers, and from correspondence we have had 

 with some of the largest honey-buyers and 

 honey producers, we would, unhesitatingly, 

 place California far in the lead as a producer of 

 honey. Just what State should rank next is a 

 little hard to say; but those in the front ranks 

 will be New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, 

 Texas, Illinois, Arizona, Colorado, Missouri. 

 Kansas— well, we can not go further, because 

 we should have to guess at the others. Mich- 

 igan used to rank among the best, but lately 

 its crops have been very meager. Our own 

 State of Ohio has never made any very great 

 show, principally because it is too agricultural. 



APUKTKKATING HONKY. 



Fou a month or so back we have received 

 several letters to the effect that ^Ir. F. H. 

 Hunt, of Redlands, Cal., has been adulterating 

 honey with glucose. Crener;. ^^anager New- 

 man, of the Bee-keepers' Union, to whom the 

 matter has been referred, has also received 

 some correspondence to the same effect, and 



says, in the Ameriam Bee Jnurnal, that, it 

 this Mr. Hunt is the same one who lived at 

 Center Point, la., he is at his old tricks again; 

 and then he refers to pages 424, 47.5, 492. r^Q'S, and 

 724 of the Ameriam Bee Journal for 1884. Not 

 wishing to do Mr. Hunt any injustice, we have 

 been careful to weigh all the evidence. We 

 have written him twice for his side, and, al- 

 though he has had plenty of time, he makes no 



reply. 



It is alleged that Mr. Hunt brought a carload 

 of honey from California, and mixed with it a 

 carload of "stuff," which he obtained from the 

 East, in St. Paul, Minn. Here is a little of the 

 evidence: 



J.Gehring, being duly sworn, says that, in 

 the middle or latter part of September. ISai, he 

 took his little steam-boiler, and helped Mr 

 Hunt mix together, and put into tin cans and 

 Mason pint jars, what he, Mr. Hunt, called 

 honey and glucose. This affidavit is dated St 

 Paul, Jan. 4, 18U4. and bears the seal of th< 

 Supreme Court of the State of Minnesota. 



J. C. Acklin. being duly sworn, says that, ii 

 the middle or latter part of September, 1893. h 

 was in where Mr. F. H. Hunt, of Red'.andf 

 Cal., was mixing honey with some stuff tha 

 came to St. Paul in barrels unmarked, an^ 

 which Mr. Hunt said was glucose; that hi 

 Acklin. saw the honey and stuff mixed togethe 

 and put into tin cans. He got a sample of tb 

 "stuff" from one of the barrels while it ws 

 being emptied, and now has it in his possessio 

 This affidavit also bears the seal of Minnesot 

 an J is dated at St. Paul, Jan. 4. 1894. 



The following is a report from the Sta 

 Dairy and Food Commissioner of that Stat 

 relative to that matter: 



[Copy.] 

 INSPECTOR'S MISCELLANEOUS CAR 



STATE DAIKV AND FOOD COMMISSION. 



No. of S<t»\}ilc, IS. 



Date of Purrhnxr. Dec. 17, 189:?. 



Chnrachr of Samph, straiiu'd l\oney. 



Stored with Smith & Austrian. 

 Citu or Toini, St. Paul, Minn. 

 Manufacturer, F. H. Hunt, Redlands, Cal. 

 InsiJ€c1or><, .1. M. Boluvr and E. B. Williams. 



HONEY ANALYSIS. 



Dec. 29, tS» 

 Pobiri/.ation direct. +85.5: normal at SO" C. 

 Correction, 4.4 



89.9 

 Polarization indirect at "iO . , 399 

 Correction, ^-^ 



44.:? 

 Suci'oso. \.00 ''. . 

 Kcdiuing su^ar, 57.10 

 Asli. .7t). De-xtrinc present 

 Remajto.— At least 75 per cent glucose. 



C/»<'"ii.sf.— E. N. Eaton. 



Comment on the above by us is unnecesS« 



