1886 



glp:xVxings in bee culture. 



line between truth and fiction. As if to mis- 

 lead such of their readers as might not read- 

 ily comprehend the above sell and joke, they 

 go on in the same article as follows : 



There is some stir in Paterson over a theory 

 entertained by some provision-dealers that some- 

 body has been imposing- on them with artificial 

 eggs. Garrett Onderdonk, a farmer from Rockland 

 County, N. Y., came into Paterson on Saturday with 

 a lot of eggs which he sold to various dealers. 

 George W. Saunders, a grocer, bought some, and 

 found, as he alleges, that they were not genuine, 

 as they had been represented to be. Saunders went 

 before the Recorder and made a comi)laint against 

 Onderdonk, alleging that the eggs were sold as fresh 

 country eggs, whereas they were what are known 

 in the trade as " pickled eggs," and that thereby a 

 law of the State of New Jersey against the sale of 

 adulterated food products was violated, the eggs 

 having been treated by some peculiar process so as 

 to look like a recent barnyard product. Onderdonk 

 was arrested and pleaded guilty, and Recorder 

 Greaves fined him S.50, which Onderdonk paid and 

 left the city. He has not returned since. 



But, what has this transaction to do with 

 artificial eggs V Why, nothing at all, of 

 course ; but the Cleveland Leader of Dec. 16 

 lays hold of it, and then announces : 



In our telegraphic columns will be found an ac- 

 count of the arrest and punishment of a man who 

 pretended to be a Rockland Co., N. Y., granger, and 

 sold to Paterson, N. J., merchants several dozen bo- 

 gus eggs. The shells were made of a transparent 

 composition, and were perfect in shape; the whites 

 of albumen, and the yolks of ground carrots and 

 saffron. In boiling, the bogus character of the eggs 

 was easily seen, but it is evident that the imitation 

 was a very good one. 



This is a fair illustration of the way in 

 which unscrupulous editors pass about these 

 fraudulent statements. T am glad they have 

 got to telling such abominable falsehoods 

 that any one of good common sense knows 

 better. At our teachers' meeting a few 

 nights ago our minister made the remark, 

 that when people commence telling false- 

 hoods about us if we let them alone they 

 will soon overstep the mark so far that no 

 one will believe them, thereby killing what 

 influence they possessed themselves; or, if 

 you choose, branding themselves as liars, 

 without any necessity for the innocent party 

 to say a word. It seems as if it were going 

 to turn out so in this case. And now I have 

 been wondering if it were not about time 

 for bee-keepers to write to editors who have 

 been publishing these statements, and give 

 them to understand that we as a body of 

 bee-keepers propose to refuse to subscribe to 

 any paper that gives place to these slander- 

 ous statements. If they have been giving 

 place to them innocently or by falsehood, is 

 it going too far to demand that they recall 

 or contradict the slanders cast upon us ? I 

 hardly need say, that it is beyond the power 

 of man to make any thing that could be 

 called even a tolerable imitatiem of an egg. 

 The stories in regard to it now going through 

 the press are a disgrace to an enlightened 

 nation. One editor, as if to shame his co- 

 temporaries, has already announced that 

 these artificial eggs are not as yet rjidte capa- 

 ble of being hatched into chickens, but that 

 the inventor thinks he will fetch even that in 

 a. few days! 



Later.— The following is sent us by one 

 of our subscribers, who clipped it from the 

 Cincinnati Commercial : 



ARTIFICIAL EGGS. 



New Yobs, pec. 15.=-A number of dealers in eggs 



and produce in Paterson were called on, Saturday 

 last, by a man representing himself as Garrett On- 

 derdonk, of Rockland Co., N. Y. He sold each a 

 load of fresh country eggs at a remarkably low fig- 

 ure. The eggs were delivered by another man, to 

 whom the dealers refused payment. Yesterday 

 Onderdonk called for his money, but was arrested, 

 under an act prohibiting the sale of adulterated 

 food. He i>leaded guilty, whereupon he was fined 

 $50.00 and costs. This he paid promptly, and left the 

 city without attempting to collect for the eggs de- 

 livered. He admitted to several dealers that the 

 eggs were artificial, and were manufactured by a 

 firm in Newark, whose name he declined to disclose. 

 The shells were made of a clear, transparent compo- 

 sition, and the shape was perfectly modeled. The 

 portion surrounding the yolk was made of albumen, 

 and the yolk itself of ground carrot and saffron. 



Onderdonk was simply arrested and fined 

 for selling stale eggs ; the Leader changes it 

 to "several dozen ''^ artificial eggs, and the 

 Conunercial iumps to a ''load "to each of a 

 '' number of dealers.'''' 



SPRINGCOTTERS AND GIMLET-POINT- 

 ED HOOKS. 



SOME USEFUL HOUSEHOLD ARTICLES. 



SPRING COTTER, OR LINCH-PIX. 



no has not felt the need of a better 

 *•' linch-pin," not only for children's 

 carts, wagons, and carriages, but for 

 different kinds of agricultural ma- 

 chinery y A bent wire is often used, 

 but it is not strong, and gets twisted, and 

 drops out, and then something must be pro- 

 cured as a substitute. A nail is driven, and 

 this either drops out again, or splits the 

 axle. If you try to bend it over it breaks off, 

 and is unsatisfactory any way. A wire nail 

 does better, for it can be bent so as to pre- 

 vent dropping out ; but this same bending 

 property makes it bend when you don't want 

 it to, allowing the wheel to wabble, etc. 

 The cut adjoining ^„.^ fc"-^ 



shows what is call- 

 ed a spring cotter. 

 It is made of tem- 

 pered steel wire, 

 shuts up easily with the fingers when you 

 wish to put it into the hole, but springs open 

 again so it can neither rattle nor drop out. 

 1 found them in the price list of a wire-goods 

 circular, and we have procured and now 

 keep in stock 10 different sizes, length as fol- 

 lows : 1 inch, H inch light, U inch heavy, \i 

 in. light, H inch heavy. If inch light, 2i inch 

 heavy, 2i inch light, 2i inch heavy, and 8 

 inch heavy. The first 6 are sold at 10 for 5 

 cts. ; the next 3 are sold at 5 for 5 cts., and 

 the largest size at 3 cts. each. This last is 

 just right to fill a i-inch hole. 

 Besides the above, we find, in the same 

 catalogue, gimlet- 

 pointed wire hooks 

 whichwe illustrate 

 in the cut adjoin- 

 ing. We keep all 

 of these in stock, 

 4 sizes — H inches 

 long, 2 inches. Si inches, and H. The first 

 two are JO for 5 cts.; the next largest, 6 for 5 

 cts.; largest size, 3 cents each. The largest 

 size would probably hold 500 lbs.; the small- 

 est size, perhaps 10 lbs. If these goods are 

 wanted by mail, add one-fourth the amount 

 for postage. 



GIMLET-rOlNTED IlOoK. 



