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May 22, 1902. 



said. At any rate, I think it is true, where you have individ- 

 ual bees working, the bee will work on different flowers and 

 perhaps create a different flavor. 



Mr. Dadant — If it was what I said in regard to leaves in 

 the woods, what I meant to say was this: That in a section 

 of honey the cells are not all filled up — you will find an 

 emptv cell here, two or three there, one over here : then the 

 undulation of the comb. There is another one here, and there 

 are no two alike. I didn't mean to say that the bees made it 

 dilferent ; I meant to say that they built it a? the leaves of the 

 trees grow differently. I don't care if you take combs or sec- 

 tions of honey, put them side by side, the formation is entirely 

 different. If man — granted that he could, for the sake of argu- 

 ment — build that comb, make the honey and seal it, when- 

 ever he sealed them over he would seal them all alike, unless 

 he had two or three, or half a dozen, samples ; but take a car- 

 load, and one section is just as much unlike the other as two 

 trees. I am conceding the possibility of sealing combs. Prof. 

 Eaton, excuse me for interrupting you so long. You can use 

 the same argument as we do. Cirant it that people say that 

 honey is manufactured and put in the comb and sealed. They 

 stated or claimed that the chemist said that the genuine 

 bees' honev has a brown coloring around the cells, and 

 that glucose honey is perfectly white. Take three out of 

 half a dozen sections, you can show him they are not alike — 

 one empty cell here, and there, and that they are never in the 

 same places. How is a human going to begin to do that? You 

 make artificial leaves — you know when they are artificial. 

 Anybody can tell an artificial leaf from a natural leaf. Take 

 all the leaves in one timber, and you can't find two alike. 



Prof. Eaton — I accept your correction. I think you can 

 apply the same reasoning to the honey itself. !• say the grade, 

 the quality of glucose and cane sugar, would differ: but the 

 saliva of "the bee. I take it to be about the same, and that's 

 all she puts into it. 



Mr. Dunn — Will glucose granulate? 



Prof. Eaton — Not commercial glucose. 



Mr. Dunn — Has that been in a cold place ? (Referring to 

 the piece of comb honey.) 



Prof. Eaton — No. sir. 



Dr. Miller — Is there grape-sugar in honey ? 



Prof. Eaton — There is grape-sugar. There is dextrose 

 (grape-Bugar) and levulose forming inert sugar. The commer- 

 cial glucose contains dextrose. There is dextrin and dextrose 

 in honey but no commercial glucose in honey, and there is 

 not. in a chemical sense, any glucose in honey. Glucose 

 refers to a group of sugars in a chemical sense. It does not 

 refer to any one product. 



Dr. Miller — I have watched with exceeding interest the 

 very careful manner of the chemist in making his statements. 

 It occurs to me that if all the statements that go from the 

 Pure Food Commission to the public are made as carefully we 

 bee-keepers will not suffer. 



INJUKIOrS NEWSPAPER .STATEMENTS. 



'■ What can we do to counteract the injurious statements 

 in the newspapers concerning honey? " 



Mr. Dunn — I move you, sir, that in view of the statements 

 that have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, it is the duty 

 of this body to set that matter straight. We represent the 

 honey-men of the United States, and inasmuch as that state- 

 ment has gone forth, it behooves us to answer it on behalf of 

 this organization. I move that Dr. Miller. Pres. York, and 

 Mr. Dadant, be appointed a committee to reply to that article 

 in the Tribune, because they aie the best competent to do it. 



The motion was seconded and carried. 



Prof. Eaton — One other thing I think you can do, or at 

 least I will try to do it for you. aiuJ that is, to have incorpor- 

 ated in the report of the State Food Commission, a statement 

 similar to what you gentlemen have said in my hearing here, 

 that it is impossible to adulterate coml) honey, and quote the 

 fact of the reward for any adulterated comb honey found, and 

 make the statement that there never has been a sample of 

 adulterated comb honey found. 



Mr. Moore — One of the reporters here suggests that this 

 motion in regard to the article in the Tribune shouldsay " the 

 newspapers," whereas, if we racntitm the Tribune, it will not 

 be taken any notice of by the other papers. 



Mr. Dunn — I believe in taking the bull by the horns. We 

 have a right here, as an organization, as well as ordinary 

 common-sense individuals, to put the blame where it belongs. 

 Why blame the Chicago press? If they refuse to publish the 

 resolutions of our meeting — 



Mr. Dadant — Mr. Dunn is right. Wi- as bee-keepers meet, 

 and they sav these lies about us and we stand and say nothing, 

 and that means they are true. They can say these folks met 



and passed a resolution as to that. Here is a cartoon show- 

 ing me putting the honey into the cells ! 



Pres. York — Y'es, that's you. The man in the picture has 

 whiskers, and so have you. [Laughter.] 



Mr. Dadant — He is right, let us protest. 



Dr. Miller — I don't know whether we are all understand- 

 ing this thing aliki-. Now, if one paper makes a false accusa- 

 tion, that paper ought to make a retraction. The next ques- 

 tion is. is it not desirable — 



Mr. Dunn — You bet they will all take it. 



Mr. Miller — Then let us go before all of them. 



Mr. Moore — This reporter suggested merely a technicality. 

 If we mention the Tribune the other papers won't pay any 

 attention to it. But if it is stated " in the newspapers.'' then 

 the Citv Press Association puts it in, and sends it to all the 

 papers and they report it. 



Mr. Dunn — The Tribune can very well say that they were 

 misinformed. We are going to state positive facts here. We 

 are going to challenge the statement that has been made. 



Mr. Moore — This reporter represents every paper in Chi- 

 cago — his report will be sent broadcast. If we refer to a par- 

 ticular paper, there is no attention paid to it. Substitute in 

 place of Tribune. " in Chicago papers." 



Mr. Dunn — These gentlemen have common-sense; they 

 won't insult any one. 



Dr. Miller-^Allow me to remark, that is capable of two 

 interpretations. One is. they must answer in the Tribune the 

 article in it. It is the article in the Tribune that is wanted to 

 be answered. I don't know what I can do with the other two 

 stubborn heads, but I suppose the committee will do what 

 might be best tor the bee-keepers ! 



Pres. York — We have a pure food show at the Coliseum, 

 and one of the circulars to be distributed at that show has on 

 it the following : 



" A REWARD OF SljUOO 



for the discovery and presentation of A SIXGLE POUND of manufac- 

 tured comb honey has been standing as an offer for about 20 years, 

 and is still untaken. Why ; Simply because there is no such thing 

 as manufactured comb honey, and there never w.as a pound of comb 

 honey thai the bees didn't store themselves. 



"A U. S. tiovernment chemist started the story, or lie. about this 

 matter, and when pressed for a reason for his libelous statement, said 

 he did it as a scientitie pleasantry. And there are thousands of people 

 who believe that lie about comb honey being manufactured. He said 

 the comb was made of parafllne and then tilled with glucose, sealing 

 the cells afterward with a hot iron, or by some equally impossible 

 manner. 



'■ What a pity that so honest and honorable an industry as honey- 

 production should have to suffer so greatly, and so unjustly, just be- 

 cause of the foolish utterance of an otherwise sensible man. Nothing 

 that he can ever say or do toward undoing the awful wrong he did to 

 bee-keeping will atone for the mischief his first statement did. It 

 doesn't pay to try to be tunny, particularly when one must tell a down- 

 right lie in order to amuse." 



The convention then adjourned until 7 o'clock p, m, 

 (To be coatittued.) 



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Experiments in Rendering Comb into Wax. 



BY C. D.WEXPOKT. 



DURING the last 8 or 9 years I have used quite a number 

 of divisible brood-chamber box-hives. But, forreasons 

 I will not now take space to explain, I decided iast sea- 

 son to quit using- this style of box-hive, or at least such 

 large number of them. This decision gave me a large 

 amount of combs to render by some means into wax. I also 

 overhauled the brood-chambers of about 150 colonies in 

 frame hives and cut out all the drone and old, crooked combs 

 and replaced the same with foundation. The old comb I. of 

 course, also wished to convert into as much wax as possible. 

 Now all of this comb is not rendered into wax yet, and some 

 of it never will be. for the moth-worms " got away " with 

 quite an amount of it last season. 



I wish to say, before going farther, that I do not believe 

 any man, living or dead, ever did more experimenting in re- 

 gard to rendering wax than I have, or spent more money for 

 different machines and appliances to be used in this work. 

 I do not say this because I consider there is any credit or 

 honor about the matter : far from it, for all the wax there 



