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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 15. 



cellence, has never been excelled. In con- 

 nection with the full-portrait view of Lang- 

 stroth there was shown a picture of him as he 

 was walking through a park in Dayton a year 

 or so before he died ; and finally there was 

 shown in colors the Langstroth monument, 

 where it now stands and which has been pur- 

 chased wholly by small sums from grateful 

 bee-keepers of this and other lands. Mr. 

 Frank Benton, who is intimately acquainted 

 with Capt. J. E. Hetherington, referred to his 

 having been styled the " prince of American 

 bee-keepers," and very properly so, and the 

 most extensive bee-keeper, probably, in all the 

 world. He dwelt upon his army record, of 

 which any bee-keeper or soldier might well be 

 proud ; explained how his sword had been 

 struck and bent by a bullet that would have 

 pierced the Captain's heart while he was in the 

 thick of the fight directing his men and a fine 

 target for sharp shooters, and how he fought 

 for the flag that thrills the heart of every 

 American. At this remark. Old Glory was 

 thrown on the screen in all its beautiful colors. 

 General applause followed ; for besides the 

 loyal bee-keepers there were many old soldiers 

 who had come to attend the great G. A. R. 

 gathering. 



On the last evening, Thursday night, Mr. 

 Hutchinson, by the aid of the stereopticon, 

 took us on a delightful trip among bee keep- 

 ers through Wisconsin and Michigan. He not 

 only showed the pictures of persons he had 

 met and of the apiaries he had visited, but all 

 the hive-manufacturing establishments where 

 he had visited, including some he had not 

 seen. 



THE WORK OF THE PURE-FOOD COMMISSION 

 IN ILLINOIS. 



At the Chicago convention we had the plea- 

 sure of hearing from Prof. E. N. Eaton, chem- 

 ist, and Commissioner A. H. Jones, of the Ill- 

 inois State Pure-food Commission. Both of 

 the gentlemen expressed themselves as being 

 highly pleased to meet so representative a 

 body of bee-keepers assembled for the purpose 

 of discussing ways and means for putting 

 down the adulteration of honey. They told 

 of the work they had already begun ; how 

 they had compelled the dealers throughout 

 Chicago (the very hotbed of adulteration only 

 a few months ago) to sell all food products 

 under their legitimate and real names. Sam- 

 ples of honey mixtuies were brought in, show- 

 ing in some cases the word " pure " had been 

 crossed out by the dealer, and the word "imi- 

 tation " in plain letters had bten written in 

 its place to conform to a recent law enacted at 

 a session of their last legislature. All kinds 

 of honey mixtures, imitation honey, glucosed 

 honeys, if they are sold at -all, have either 

 been relabeled or else the word " pure " has 

 been scratched out and the word " imitation " 

 in bold letters put in its stead. 



It will be remembered that the United States 

 Bee-keepers' Association, under the direction 

 of General Manager Secor, and through the 

 personal efforts of Geo. W. York and Herman 

 F. Moore, a well-known honey-man and an 

 attorney as well, gathered up, a year or so 



ago, a number of samples of bogus honey. 

 These were placed before the city prosecutor, 

 and certain suits were begun against the ven- 

 ders of the samples. It created quite z. furore 

 among the dealers, for the Chicago papers 

 were full of the matter for the time bemg ; 

 and although the first suit resulted in a ver- 

 dict of " not guilty " for one of the parties on 

 a queer sort of technicality before the justice, 

 the result of this prosecution, while apparent- 

 ly a failure, was a far greater success than the 

 Association could have hoped for in twenty 

 years. How ? Both Prof. Eiton and Com- 

 missioner Jones stated before the convention 

 that the suits begun by the United States Bee- 

 keepers' Association made such a stir in the 

 city that it helped in no small degree toward 

 the enactment of the new law now in force 

 and being enforced. 



If the Union or Association, as it is now, 

 had never done any thing else we could feel 

 that it had accomplished enough. There is 

 nothing like agitation, agitation^ agitation. 

 In this day the brewers and saloon-keepers 

 fear the work of agitation more than any 

 thing else. Every bee-keeper in the land 

 ought to rise up and hand in his dollar, if he 

 has not already dune so, because the Associa- 

 tion has grappled his greaest enemy, the 

 adulteration evil, by the throat and it now re- 

 mains for it to follow up its Appomattox. 



THE LEAF-HOPPERS ON BASSWOODS. 

 With regard to certain insects being envel- 

 oped in gobs of mucus on some of the bass- 

 wood-trees in our vicinity, and about which I 

 wrote on page 532 of our issue for July 1, I 

 would say that I sent samples of the leaves to 

 the Ohio Experiment Station ; and Prof. Web- 

 ster, to whom the matter was referred, writes : 



Mr. Root : — Your letter to Mr. Green, and the ex- 

 press package h ive been turned over to me. There 

 are insects in the glass jar, ut none of them could 

 have eaten the leaves of the basswood that you sent, 

 nor could they have stripped the twigs of bloom. 

 They might, perhaps, have punctured the blossom 

 stems and caused them to fall off. The insects that 

 are contained in the jar are a species of leaf-hopper 

 which have not been before known to be destructive. 



In regard to canker worms they are likely to occur 

 next year where they did this year ; but you can easi- 

 ly manage them by spraying with arsenite of lead or 

 di.--parene, at a strength of 3 pounds to 50 gallons of 

 wat' r. These are new insecticides that have only re- 

 cently been placed upon the market, but you can easi- 

 ly arrange to secure them in ample time to apply next 

 year. F. M. Wkbster. 



Exp. Station, Wooster, Ohio, June 29. 



Just before the opening of the Chicago con- 

 vention Mr. F. A. Converse, superintendent of 

 live stock, and of dairy and agricultural prod- 

 ucts for the pan American Exposition at Buf- 

 falo, introduced himself to a few bee-keepers 

 who had assembled at the convention hall. 

 He stated that he had come to learn the wish- 

 es of the various representative bee-keepers as 

 to the nature and extent of the apiarian exhib- 

 its to be made at Buffalo. He said he was 

 anxious to give bee-keepers what they sought, 

 and that if he knew their requircmems he 

 would try to meet them as to the amount of 

 space, location of the exhibit, etc. 



