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CHICAGO, ILL, MAY 1, 1902, 



No, 18, 



^ Editorial. 



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New York Anti-Bogus-Honey Ijaw. 



— Such a law has recently been enacted, and 

 is a credit to that great State. It will be 

 worth much to the whole country to have the 

 adulteration of honey stopped in New York 

 City. Chicago used to be headquarters for 

 such work, but since the Pure Food Commis- 

 sion came into existence, there has been pre- 

 cious little adulterated honey put on the open 

 market here, and most of that has been 

 labeled so that the purchaser could see that 

 he was not getting the pure article. 



Jlere is a copy of the parts of the New York 

 law as amended : 



AN ACT to amend the agricultural law rela- 

 tive to prevention o( disease among bees, 

 and to add two new sections thereto rela- 

 tive to honey, to be known as sections 

 eighty-a and eighty-b. 



Section 2. — Said chapter, three hundred and 

 thirty-eight, is hereby amended by inserting 

 therein, after section eighty thereof, two new 

 sections, to be known as sections eighty-a and 

 eighty-b, and to read respectively as follows: 

 iSt'ftioii SO-'i. — Bcfiniiiff ?io)iey. — The terms 

 "honey," "liquid or extracted honey," 

 " strained honey," or "pure honey," as used 

 in this act, shall mean the nectar of flowers 

 that has been transformed by, and is the nat- 

 ural product of the honey-bee, taken from the 

 honey-comb and marketed in a liquid, can- 

 died, or granulated condition. 



iSection Sll-b. — h'cfattveto KeUhif/ a commodity 

 in imitation or seiniiltincc of ftoncy. — No person 

 or persons shall sell, keep for sale, expose or 

 oflfer for sale, any article or product in imita- 

 tion or semblance of honey branded as 

 "honey," "liquid or extracted honey," 

 " strained honey," or "pure honey," which is 

 not pure honey. No person or persons, firm, 

 association, company, or corporation shall 

 manufacture, sell, expose, or offer for sale 

 any compound or mixture branded or labeled 

 as and for honey which shall be made up of 

 honey mixed with any other substance or in- 

 gredient. There may be printed on the pack- 

 age containing such compound or mixture a 

 statement giving the ingredients of which it 

 is made; if honey is one of such ingredients, 

 it shall be so stated in the same size type as 

 are the other ingredients; but it shall not be 

 sold, exposed for sale, or offered tor sale as 

 honey; nor shall such compound or mixture 

 be branded or labeled with the word "honey " 

 in any form other than as herein provided; 

 nor shall any product in semblance of honey, 

 whether a mixture or not, be sold, exposed, or 

 offered for sale as honey, or branded or labeled 

 with the word " honey," unless such article 

 is pure honey. 



ABSTRACT PROM THE AGRICULTURAL LAW 

 RELATIVE TO PENALTIES. 



Section .57. — Every person violating any of 

 the provisions of the agricultural law shall 

 forfeit to the people of the State of New York 

 the sum of not less than fifty dollars, nor more 



than one hnndreil dollars, for the first viola- 

 tion. and not loss than one hundred dollars for 

 the second and each subsequent violation. 

 When such violation consists of the manu- 

 facture or production of any prohibited arti- 

 cle, each (lay during which or any part of 

 which such manufacture or production is car- 

 ried on or continued, shall be deemed a separate 

 violation of the provisions of this article. 

 When the violation consists of the sale, or the 

 offering or exposing for sale, or exchange of 

 any prohibited article or substance, the sale 

 of each one of several packages shall consti- 

 tute a separate violation ; and each day on 

 which any article or substitute is offered or 

 exposed for sale or exchange shall constitute 

 a separate violation of this article. When the 

 use of any such article or substance is pro- 

 hilMted, each day during which or any part of 

 which said article or substance is so used or 

 furnished for use, shall constitute a separate 

 violation, and the furnishing of the same for 

 use to each person to whom the same may be 

 furnished shall constitute a separate violation. 

 Section 2. — This act shall take effect imme- 

 diately. 



We hope other States will copy the New 

 York law, and thus get into line for pure 

 honey. Nothing would so help the sale and 

 table consumption of genuine honey as strin- 

 gent laws against the sale of the adulterated 

 article, and their rigid enforcement. 



Honey at Fairs.— Mr. Smith reports in 

 the Canadian Bee .Ic:>uraal that several years 

 ago at the county fair he made a display of 

 honey in sections and extracted, both clover 

 and buckwheat, some clear, some candied, 

 several hundred pounds altogether. He says: 



Well, the result rather astonished me. I 

 was overwhelmed with questions about honey. 

 "How did I get it in the little boxes?" 

 " How was it some was so light and clear, 

 another kind so dark in color?" "What 

 made it candy i-i, etc. People who had never 

 seen or tasted h"oney before, stopped to admire 

 and express a desire to purchase some; and 

 the result was that we sold all our cull sec- 

 tions by cutting them into 5-cent pieces, that 

 were eaten on the spot, instead of candy, and 

 many who had once tasted honey purchased 

 some to take home with them. I had a crowd 

 around the exhiiiit the whole time. The 

 honey was all sold, and orders were taken to 

 be tilled later. 



This proved to be the best advertisement we 

 ever had, and was the means of introducing 

 honey into many homes where it was found 

 to be so much more healthful and economical 

 than many of the preserves in common use. 



Bad Bees they have up in Canada. A 

 lawsuit is reported in the Canadian Bee Jour- 

 nal, a Mr. Brock suing for damage done by 

 Mr. Patterson's bees. Some who have kept 

 bees close by their homes without any misap- 

 prehension may be surprised to read how very 

 bad Mr. Patterson's bees were. Listen; 



In stating his case Mr. Brock: swore that he 

 owned a house and :i half-acre lot west of Mr. 

 R. L. Patterson, who also owned a house and 

 a half-acre lot, and kept about 130 colonies of 

 bees. Mr. Patterson's bees had been very 



troublesome to himself an<l family. His 

 mother and sister were afraid to go outside of 

 the house on account of them, aixl especially 

 at swarming-time. He could not cultivate his 

 lot, and had to give up fruit-raising, not only 

 on account of their stinging the pickers, but 

 through llicir sucking the juices of the fruit 

 and destroying the berries. He Ijelieved that 

 he could not sell the property if he wanted to 

 on account of Mr. Patterson's bees. His horse 

 had been stung, and injured through fear of 

 the bees. The family washing could not be 

 hung out to dry without being spotted by 

 their excrement. The roof of his house was 

 also defiled, and when the rains came this 

 matter was washedoff into thecistern, render- 

 ing the water filthy and unfit for use. His 

 wood-pile, loo, was affected ; he could not 

 get any one to saw his wood, and sometimes 

 the bees would crawl on the pieces and be 

 carried into the house, where they would 

 sting and annoy. 



Mr. Brock's mother and brother and sisters, 

 and a number of others, mostly relatives, 

 witnessed for the plaintiff. Mrs. Brock swore 

 having had to wash the clothes three times. 

 One of the sisters declared she had to leave 

 home on account of the bees. 



The strange thing is, that Mr. Brock should 

 ask only $(J0 for all that harm, and that the 

 judge should be so hard-hearted as to find no 

 cause for action. 



Size of Honey-Cans. — The 60-pound 

 tin can is a favorite size. But G. A. Dead- 

 man says in the Canadian Bee Journal : 



It may surprise some when I say that I pre- 

 fer a 10-pound slip-covered pail to any recep- 

 tacle I have yet seen for honey after it is 

 granulated. In the future, or until further 

 notice, any honey I have no market in view 

 for goes into 10-pound pails. If an order 

 comes for a liO-pound tin I can send six of 

 these with the assurance that the customer 

 will be pleased rather than otherwise. They 

 are so much nicer to handle, and more useful 

 when empty. In sending these you will be doing 

 a favor rather than otherwise. You can till an 

 order for liO-pound tins with 10-pound pails, 

 but you can very seldom send a 60-pound tin 

 in the place of six 10-pound pails. A 10- 

 pound pail of honey almost any family can 

 buy, although where honey is expensive I find 

 .5-pound pails are in demand. 



The Buffalo Convention Report is 



issued in pamphlet form, size OxS'., inches. SO 

 pages and cover. Besides a full report of the 

 proceedings of the 32d convention of the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association, held in 

 Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 10, 11 and 13, 1901, it 

 contains fine half-tone portraits of all the 

 ofiicers and directors of the Association ; also 

 the Constitution, a list of the membership up 

 to the end of 1901, and the two latest bee- 

 songs — "The Hum of the Bees in the Apple- 

 Tree Bloom'' and "Buckwheat Cakes and 

 Honey." Price, postpaid, 25 cents, or with 

 the American Journal one year — both for 

 SI, 10. Every bee-keeper ought to have a copy 

 of this Report. We believe it is the finest ever 

 gotten out for the Association. 



