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the amalgamation matter was placed before them in the Gen- 

 eral Manager's Report, and that the wrong side? Nothing 

 could have been more unfair than that. Had those favoring 

 amalgamation been permitted to present their side of the 

 case, as was clearly their right, if any side was to be pre- 

 sented, the result doubtless would have been very different. 



Of course there is no need for two Unions, unless you 

 want one to just put in its time in guarding a little pile of 

 money, and the other to raise funds and do the fighting. As 

 Prof. Cook says — and others have voiced the same sentiment — 

 the old Union is no longer needed to defend the pursuit of 

 bee-keeping in its right to existence. That was settled some 

 10 years ago. 



Another thing, the New Union must be managed differ- 

 ently in some particulars than has been the old one. Just the 

 other day a bee-keeper who for years was a member of the 

 old Union, was in our office — and when askt why he dropt his 

 membership, said : 



"When I belong to any organization I want to know 

 what is done with the funds. I want to know how much is 

 paid for this, and how much for that. I have a right to know. 

 That is the reason I and others, who were members out where 

 I live, dropt out. I also tbink the Treasurer should give a 

 bond. I expect to join the New Union." 



Just so. Every member certainly desires to see both sides 

 of the New Union's account, itemized, and publisht in the 

 Annual Report. All have a perfect right to this. It is no 

 reflection upon the honesty or administration of the General 

 Manager to ask for such information. He should be only too 

 glad to give it. And why should any public financial officer 

 feel delicate about giving a limited bond ? This is only a good 

 business principle. 



As the majority of the members of the old Union practi- 

 cally said by their votes that they did not desire that organi- 

 zation to take up issues other than that of defense; and as 

 its General Manager is opposed to undertaking the fight 

 against honey-adulteration, to us it looks to be the very wisest 

 of wise moves to build up a New Union that will just go in to 

 win; not only get the victory over the adulterators, but help 

 to wipe out honey-commissiou frauds, and when necessary 

 also do what little may yet be needed to defend apiarists in 

 their constitutional right to keep bees. 



On with the New Union ! Let the volunteers rally around 

 its standard, and then go forth to victory for the right ! 



Afler Adulterators in California. — Prof. 

 Wenzell, the chemist of the San Francisco Board of Health, is 

 after the adulterators of all kinds of food. He is making 

 chemical analyses of syrups, jellies, and canned sweets of all 

 kinds. Of course honey comes in also. In a half-column 

 report on Prof. Wenzell's work, sent to us by Mr. A. B. Zinn, 

 taken from the San Francisco Examiner of March 14, we find 

 these paragraphs : 



Sweeter than honey in the honey-comb is the honey that 

 comes in glass bottles, so sweet and innocent and golden that 

 only a health ollicer would dream of suspecting it. A canny 

 little instrument, known as a polariscope, was turned on the 

 different brands of " absolutely pure honey," with startling 

 results. It is a scientific fact that a plane of polarized light, 

 passing through pure honey, will be deflected to the left. If 

 It deflects to the right, adulteration may be assumed. 



The San Diego honey showed a melancholy deflection of 

 13.3 degrees to the right: the Los Angeles and White Clover 

 but little less. From this a large proportion of glucose was 

 Inferred, as well as sugar and syrup. Glucose is not food, 

 and no respectable bee would tolerate it in her cell for ten 

 seconds. To label such compounds " pure honey " is an insult 

 to Dr. Watts and John the Baptist. Fancy the latter reduced 

 to a diet of locusts and glucose I 



Mr. Zinn says that Prof. WenzelPs work shows him to be 

 the " right man in the right place." With California's pres- 

 ent stringent law against the adulteration of honey, it ought 



to be easy to make it good and warm for those who attempt 

 to adulterate the product of the bees. But when our Illinois 

 legislature rises to its golden opporiunity, and passes an antl- 

 aduiteration law, then look out for the unearthing of swarms 

 of adulterators in Chicago. 'Tis said that " Every dog has his 

 day," and we think the adulterator's " day " is coming on with 

 great speed ; and it will be a hot day for him, too. People 

 are getting awfully tired of being swindled on both sides — 

 inside and outside. What with frauds of all kinds to rob 

 them of their hard-earned dollars, and the adulterators to 

 tamper with what they eat, is it any wonder that honest peo- 

 ple are wondering who is running this country, any way '? It 

 is time that those who believe iu righteousness should arise 

 In their might and everlastingly wallop the daylights out of 

 the frauds of all kinds and conditions. 



And the New Union is the agency that can help greatly 

 in downing at least those who besmirch the fair character of 

 the purest, best, and oldest sweet known to mankind. 



T\)c Weekly Budget. 



Mr. L. L. Jackson, of Monterey Co., Calif., writing April 

 10, said : "The weather has been and is still quite warm for 

 this season of the year, the thermometer registering as high 

 as 90° in the shade." 



Dr. C. C. Miller, in a letter we recieved April 14, says : 

 "Winter isn't exactly lingering in the lap of spring, but 

 spring doesn't seem to move very fast. I am busy hauling 

 bees now to out-apiaries, and have three-fourths of them 

 away." 



Mr. G. M. Doolittle, in the Progressive Bee-Keeper, 



says that this " is the secret of successful honey-production 

 in a nutshell : First, secure the laborers just at Ihc riijlit time 

 for the lioncy harvest, then keep a,n eye on things, giving only 

 just enough room in wliivh to store till the honey comlnrj from 

 that harvest, and you SLTe loss of the situation." There you 

 have it. It's no longer a " secret." Now profit by it. 



Now for New Subscribers for the rest of 1S97 : 

 We would like to have each of our present readers send us at 

 least one new subscriber for the Bee Journal before June 1, 

 1897. That surely will not be hard to do, when they will 

 need to pay only GO cents for the rest of this year. That is 

 about S months, or only Tjj cents a month for the weekly 

 American Bee Journal. Any one with only a colony or two 

 of bees should jump at such an offer as that. 



Now, we don't ask you to work for us for nothing, but 

 will say that for each new 00-cent subscriber you send us, we 

 will mail you your choice of one of the following list: 



Wood Binder for the Bee .Tournal 20c. 



nO copies of leaflet on -Why Eai Honey?" 20c. 



50 ■■ •• on •' How to Keep Honey " 20c. 



00 ■' " on ■• Alsike Clover" 20c. 



6 copies ■■ Honey as Fnod and Medicine" 20c. 



lcopye4ch " Prepar.>tlon ot Hnney- for the Market "(10c.) 



and Uoolittle'8 " Hive I V'e " i5c i loo. 



1 copr each Dadants' "Handling Bees" (8c.) and " Bee- 

 Pasturape a Necessity ' (lOc. I 18o. 



Dr. Howard's bonk on " F )ul Brood " 2.)C. 



Kolinke's " Foul B no d " Ijoo? 25c. 



Cheshire's " Foul Brood " book dOj.) and Dadants' " Hand- 

 ling Bees" [8c ] 18c. 



Dr. Foote'8 Hand-book ot Health 25c. 



Rural Life Book 25c. 



Our Poultry Doctor, by Fanny Felld 25c. 



Poultry for .Market and Proflt, by Fanny Field 2.ic. 



Capons and Capouizing 25c. 



Turkeys for Market and Prollt 2.5c. 



Green's Four Hooks on Fruit-G rowing "oc. 



Kopp Comiuercbil C'.iUuUior No. L 25c. 



Silo ano Silatre. bv Prot. Cook 2.ic. 



Bienen-Kultur LGerman] 40c. 



Kendall's Horse-Book [Eoiilish or German] 25c. 



1 Pound White Clover Seed 25c. 



1 " Sweet •• " 25c. 



i% •• Al'^lke " " 25c. 



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m •• Crimson " " 2.5o. 



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