1899 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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the kind that many of the bee-keepers of the 

 West used to think were first-class bee-smash- 

 ers ; but I have personally seen some of those 

 York vState bee-keepers handle colonies on 

 these Hetherington-Quinby frames, and I 

 know that they get through with their ma- 

 nipulation practically without bee- killing, 

 and just as rapidly as we with our kind. 



ADULTERATED HONEY HAILING FROM ME- 

 DINA. 



At the last convention, some one, I do not 

 know who, brought in some bogus honey, la- 

 beled " Kellogg's Pure White-clover Honey." 

 There was nothing strange about this ; but 

 when the last pare of the label was read, 

 " Medina, O.," a good deal of fun was poked 

 at the members of the Root Co. who were 

 present. And then Dr. Mason (that bold bad 

 man) and a few others, were naughty enough 

 to try to incriminate us. Yes, the doctor even 

 asked me what / knew about it. 



Jokiug a:-ide, it is evident that some un- 

 principled concern is trying to " steal anoth- 

 er's thunder." Medina, O., has come to be 

 known as quite a center of bee-keeping inter- 

 est, and the rascals who put out this " stuff " 

 have borrowed its good name, and at the ex- 

 pense of the Root Co. 



The honey in question was sampled by va- 

 rious members, and pronounced adulterated 

 without doubt. It was analyzed by Mr. Sel- 

 ser, our chemist, and he pronounced it 75 per 

 cent glucose, a certificate of which analysis I 

 now hold in my hand. 



You may be sure The A. I. Root Co. does 

 not propose to let the matter drop where it is; 

 and we shall be obliged if our subscribers in 

 the West, where this bogus stuff is sold (and 

 I understand it is sold all over the West) will 

 give us a list of the stores where it is kept for 

 sale, and the name of the firm that is putting 

 it out. We will see if we can not get togeth- 

 er enough material for a red-hot damage suit ; 

 for, no joking, we feel that our name has been 

 damaged by such vile stuff going the rounds 

 of the country. It is to the interest of every 

 bee-keeper that mixers of this article, "Kel- 

 logg's Pure White-clover Honey," be brought 

 to time; and we therefore call upon our read- 

 ers for such facts as they can give us. 



It is hardly necessary for me to state that 

 there is no adulteration of honey in Medina, 

 and never has been. We have only 2500 in- 

 habitants; and if there is any kind of business 

 like this going on we should know it in a very 

 short time. 



THE RAUCHFUSS SOLAR WAX- EXTRACTOR. 



Mr. Frank Rauchfuss, of Elyria, Col., 

 manager of the bee-hive department of the 

 L. A. Watkins Merchandise Co., of Denver, 

 Col., has made an improvement in wax-ex- 

 tractors. The Rauchfuss machine is a good 

 deal like the Doolittle, with the exception 

 that the wax is diverted to the right side into 

 one of the three pans shown. This pan catches 

 all the refuse and sediment, the same settling 

 to the bottom. The pure free wax rises to the 

 top, and overflows into the other two pans. 



The result is, when the wax is all melted, the 

 wax in two of the pans, at least, is in market- 

 able shape, while that in the first pan men- 

 tioned, after scraping off the sediment from 

 the bottom of the cake, ma)' be rendered again 

 „r sent to market. The L. A. Watkins Co. has 



sold these wax-extractors in preference to the 

 Doolittle and other styles ; and from all I can 

 learn they are giving good satisfaction, be- 

 cause the wax, as soon as it leaves the extract- 

 or, is all ready for market without further 

 melting up. 



CAPTAIN J. E. HETHERINGTON, THE MOST 

 EXTENSIVE BEE-KEEPER IN THE WORLD. 

 AFTER more or less investigation I have 

 come to the conclusion that Capt. J. E. Heth- 

 erington- is by far the most extensive bee- 

 keeper in the world. He has been managing, 

 and has operated successfully, too, in the neierh- 

 borhood of 3000 colonies, probably for the last 

 ten or fifteen years, and I do not know how 

 much longer. There are, perhaps, a dozen 

 bee-keepers in the United States who own and 

 operate anywhere from 1000 to 1500 colonies ; 



