1888 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



453 



■ WOOD-ZINC HONEY-HOARDS TO HE TESTED 

 THIS SEASON. 



It would seem that those wood-zinc 

 honey-boards, ilhistiated in the last issue 

 in this department, are going to have a 

 thorough test this season. Orders have 

 poured in continuously for them. We want 

 reports from those "who are purchasing 

 them. From sonae localities we ought to 

 have them in a couple of weeks. Tell us 

 whether they answer every purpose, both 

 for queen-excluding and the prevention of 

 burr-combs on the sections ; whether they 

 are durable, and whether Ihey possess ad- 

 vantages not contained in the other honey- 

 boards. Let the truth strike where it will. 



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 whom ye shine as lights in tlic world. -Phil. 2: 14, 1.5. 



We have up to date, 8246 subscribers, a gain of 119 

 within the last month. Thanks. 



THE BRITISH HONEY COMPANY INSOLVENT. 



We learn that the above company has sent out a 

 circular to the effect that it has been proven, in 

 consequence of its liabilities, that it can not con- 

 tinue its business. They therefore winri up volun- 

 tarily. 



AN INJUDICIOUS economy OF PAPER. 



One or two of our correspondents, in sending in 

 their communications, after writing, horizontally 

 down the page, turn the sheet at right angles and 

 write crosswise of the other written matter. We 

 know our friends do not think; but really it makes 

 us "tired " to see such letters. Paper is cheap, and 

 postage is cheap; and we should be very glad to 

 have our corresi>ondents take plenty of room. 



the next place ok MKETINO Ol' THE N. A. B. K. S. 



The president, Dr. A. B. Mason, announces that 

 63 out of a total number of HI have thus far ex- 

 pressed their preference for Columbus, and that 

 only one was not in favor of it, and he does not op- 

 pose it. This, however, is not an otticial vote, but 

 it looks pretty decidedly as if we were going to 

 have the next national convention at Columbus at 

 this rate. An official count will be given in our 

 next issue. 



QUEENS TO CANADA— TROUBLE AHEAD. 



From the C. B. J. of May 2:5 we learn that "the 

 Canadian postal officials have decided that a (jueen- 

 bee shall not be admissible into Canada from the 

 United States, through the mails." We hope broth- 

 er Jones will bring his great infiuence to bear upon 



those officious officials. The trouble this time is 

 not with Cncle Sam, but with his neighbor across 

 the line. 



Since the above was written we have received the 

 following from the D. A. Jones Co.: 



Mr. Root:— We have today received a letter from 

 the postofRce, of which the following is a copy: 



l^ostottiie, Inspectm's Ortice. Ban-ie, May 22. 

 D. A. Jones Co.:— with reference to the transmission 

 of queen-bees in the mail between Canada and the L'nited 

 Slates, I am to inform you that the correspondence on this 

 question is now in progress Ijetween the postottice depaitment 

 here and at Washington on the suljject. You will be notified 

 of the result. Daniel Spry, 1*. O. I. 



As soon as we receive information we will ad- 

 vise you. We shall certainly do what we can to 

 have the matter properly adjusted. 



The D. a. Jones Co., Ltd. 



We have no doubt the matter will be adjusted 

 agreeably to all parties concerned. 



.\DIILTBRATED COMB HONEY, ETC. 



1 DO not see but that it falls upon Gle.\nings to 

 call to order as good a man and as great a man as 

 Thomas William Cowan— see Briti:<h Bcc Journal, 

 page 234, May 10. I shall have to explain a little. 

 At the bee-keepers' convention in Utica, N. Y., last 

 winter, one of Thurber, Whyland & Co.'s men was 

 very busy in distributing circulars to the bee-men. 

 He had a great pile of them, and evidently made it 

 his business to spread them broadcast. These slips 

 of paper gave an analysis of honey which was 

 made, as was stated, by the dairy commissioner of 

 New Jersey. We do not know who this dairy com- 

 missioner is, nor how good an authority he is; but 

 when 1 first glanced over the circular 1 felt a little 

 troubled to see that it contained a list of names of 

 good and responsible firms who were accused of 

 selling adulterated honey. In fact, almost every 

 sample of honey that was examined, according to 

 said report, was adulterated, with the exception of 

 a few samples from private farmers or bee-keepers, 

 with one other excciition. This exception is Thuber, 

 Whyland & Co. Now, the singular part of the 

 whole thing is, that samples No. 57, 58, and 60 were 

 comb honey, and not fitrnined honey, although the 

 heading in small cHpitals, at the top of the list, 

 says "strained honey." Friend Cowan takes the 

 matter up, and reflects somewhat on American 

 honey, especially the fact that the American comb 

 honey in our markets Is, at least some of it, adul- 

 terated. The Bce-Ke^i)crs' Magazine also indorses 

 the paper, and makes some severe reflections on 

 firms that we believe to be good and honorable 

 men. I am exceedingly glad to know that the 

 Thurbers, who so recently put up honey with corn 

 syrup in to keep it from candying, have reformed 

 to such an extent as this circular indicates, but 1 

 do not believe that everybody else has gone into 

 the adulterating business. We have instances on 

 record before, where some sort of a chemist has 

 pronounced absolutely pure hone.^', gathered from 

 the flowers by honest bees belonging to an honest 

 bee-keeper, adulterated. Who can give us some 

 further information in regard to this dair.^- com- 

 missioner of New Jersey, and this statement given 

 by the American (iiocer, ])resenting such a dis- 

 graceful showing of the bee-keeping industry of 

 the United States? I thoroughly indorse all that 

 the B. B.J. has to say in regard to Hoge; and the 

 whole matter looks very much as if Hoge still had 

 hold of the crank. But we beg our English cousins 

 to remember that the American people are not all 

 Hoges, liy any means. 



