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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 1. 



picking: from the stem if you wish ; peaches or pears will keep 

 equally well without beinj; halved. Pie-plant when canned 

 is very soft, almost liquid; but when jnitupcold is as hard 

 and as fresh as when cut in the parden. The sugar makes the 

 fruit sweet enough for table use; and the three and a half 

 gallons of liquid will be sufficient to cover about twelve and a 

 half gallons of fruit, so you see it is the cheapest as well as 

 the beet method known, as it does away with tho use of cans, 

 sealing-wax, and all the labor connected with canning fruit. 

 One or two grains of salyx per quart will keep mill from 

 souring. California Fruit and Chemical Co., 



Manufacturers of Compound Extract of Salyx, etc. 



Let us now turn back to Gleanings for 

 1893, page 563, Jul}' 15. One Bain, of New 

 Concord, Ohio, advertised the same thing, and 

 called it the " United States Salyx Co." Here 

 is what Prof. Wiley said (in 1893) in regard 

 to it : 



" The compound extract of salyx " is the gorgeous 

 title under which the modest salicylic acid is made to 

 masquerade. . . . The value of the two-ounce box, 

 sold at retail for 82 50, is about 3 cts. 



You will notice that Bain used to charge 

 $2.50 for the three cents' worth. The Chem- 

 ical Co., of St. Louis, charge only $1,00 for 

 that much. Well, that is not all. It has 

 been so well settled of late that salicylic acid 

 is really a deleterious drug, if I am not mis- 

 taken, there is a law against using it for pre- 

 serving fruit, milk, or any thing else. In 

 view of this, can not the United States postal 

 authorities stop this "Mrs. Baird " and the 

 Chemical Co. from doing business through 

 the United States mails ? I am going to see 

 what I can do about it, and I wish the readers 

 of Gleanings would notify the editors of 

 their family papers they do not care to take a 

 paper that consents to boom such pernicious 

 frauds. 



Tobacco Column. 



cigarette smokers. 



The Southern railway system in South Carolina has 

 given a harder blow to the cigarette fiend thati all the 

 moral suasion of philanthropists and scientists com- 

 bined could give. It demands that all employees who 

 now smoke cigarettes must either quit smoking them 

 or lose their positions ; and that in the future no one 

 who is a cigarette smoker will be employed by the 

 company. Railways all ovtr the country refuse to 

 employ men in any capacity of trust who drink. 

 Businessmen are coming to make the same distinc- 

 tion in all positions that require clear heads and accu- 

 racy. When bright young men realize that it isn't an 

 indication of manliness to drink, and smoke cigar- 

 ettes, and that these habits slam the door on oppor- 

 tunities for engaging in the highest forms of produc- 

 tive labor, they will be quick enough to abandon hab- 

 its that entail so much misery. — Farm and Fireside. 



Good for the Southern railways ! When 

 the chief of the Weather Bureau took the 

 stand he did he was, to some extent, standing 

 alone ; but when the great railways back him 

 up, and even go much further than he did, 

 and manufacturing industries, too, we shall 

 have some pretty wholesome laws in regard to 

 the matter. And, by the way, something 

 comes in here a little queer. The manufac- 

 turers of cigarettes have loudly insisted that 

 their goods were made entirely of tobacco, 

 and nothing else, and they challenge our 

 chemists to find any thing else in their com- 

 position. The United States Chemist has also 

 said, by the way, that he did not know of any 

 thing more dangerous, to the youth especially, 

 than tobacco itself., and I am glad we have so 

 wise a man as the Chemist of the United 



States. But now to the point : If cigarettes 

 are pure tobacco, and nothing more, why 

 should not the Weather Bureau, the railway 

 companies, etc., rule out pipes and cigars in 

 the same way ? Either tobacco itself is ex- 

 ceedingly bad, or else cigarettes contain some 

 deadlier drug than tobacco. 



PROGRAM OF THE THIRTY- FIRST ANNUAL 

 CO.WENTION OF THE NATIONAL BEE- 

 KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION. 



To be Held at Chicago, Illinois, Tuesday, Wednes- 

 day, and Thursday, August 28, 2q, and 30, 

 1900; Sessions to be Held in Welling- 

 ton Hall, 70 No. Clark Street. 



TUESDAY EVENING. 



Call to order at 7 o'clock. 



Song, - - - Dr. C. C. Miller, Marengo, 111. 

 " How to Sell Honey," S. A. Niver, Auburn, N. Y. 

 "Bee-keeping in the City," I,. Kreutzinger, Chicago. 

 Question box. 



WEDNESDAY MORNING. — 9:30. 



Song. 



Invocation. 



President's Address, - E R. Root, Medina, O. 



'■ Queeu-Rea ing by the Doolitt'e Method, "J - 



- Mrs. H. C. Acklin, St Paul, Minn. 

 Question box. 



WEDNESDAY AFTERNOO.V. — 1:30. 



Song. 



" Bee-keepers' Rights and Their Protection by 



I,aw," - Herman F. Moore, Park Ridge, 111. 

 •' Trials of the Commission Man." - - - - 



R A. Burnett, Chicago, 111. 



Question-box. 



WEDNESDAY EVENING.— 7 ;30. 



"Breeding for IvOnger- tongued Bees." by J. M. 

 Rankin, of the Michigan Experiment Station. 



"B:e-keepers I have Met and Aoiaries I have Vis- 

 ited." by E. R. Root, assisted by Dr. C. C. Mil- 

 ler, Dr. A. B. Mi.son, E. T. Abbott, and others. 

 Illustrated by a stereopticon. 



THURSDAY MORNING. — 9.30. 



Song. 



Invocation. 



" Various forms of Disease Among Bees, Cause and 



Cure," Dr. Wm. R. Howard, Ft. Worth, Tex. 



Report of GenerMl Manager. . . . . - 



Hon. Eugene Secor, Forest City, la. 

 " Pure Food lyegislation," ------ 



Rev. E. T. Abbott, St. Joseph, Mo. 

 Question-box. 



THURSDAY APrERNOON. — 1:30 



Song. 



"Chemistry of Honey, and How to Detect Its 



Adulteiation," by Thomas Win. Cowan, Pacific 



Grove. California. 

 " How to Ship Hoaey to Maiket, and in What Kind 



of Packages," - Geo. W. York, Chicago, 111. 

 Question-box. 



THURSDAY EVENING. 



"Co-operative Organization Among Bee-keepers," 



- R. C. Aikin, I^ov: land, Col. 



"My Trip Through Wise nsin and Minnesota," 



W. Z. H\itchinson, Flint, Mich. lUu.strated by 



a stereopticon. 

 Unfinished business. 



One prominent feature of the next convention will 

 be the stereopticon work. Messrs. Root and Hutchin- 

 son, with a powerful stereopticon, will project upon 

 the screen some photos they have taken of apiaries 

 they have visited in various portions of the I'nited 

 States. The convention will be held in Wellington 

 Hall, 70 North Clark St., about a block and a half 

 from the office of the American Bee Journal, and about 

 five blocks directly north of the Court-house. The 

 hotels at which delegates may secure lodging is the 

 Revere House, about half a block from the convention 

 hall. The rate for lodging will be 50 cts. per night, 

 and the proprietor has assured Mr. York that good 

 beds are provided, but that several will have to occu- 

 py the same room. But when any one desires a room 



