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value; but it did not know that "corn syr- 

 uj) " was glucose under another name. But 

 in this decision he was overruled again. 

 ^"ery recently he decided that saccharine, 

 a preparation fronicbal tar from which many 

 poisons are made, should not be used in any 

 preparation of food, and the ruling to that 

 efifect was sent out from the United States 

 Department of Agriculture; and again his 

 ruling has been held uji, so to speak, but 

 not jjermanently, we hoiie. 



Our readers are doubtless familiar with 

 the trumj^ed-ujj charge that has been pre- 

 ferred against Dr. Wiley, that he hired an 

 expert contrary to law— a charge that, on 

 the face of it. is silly and ridiculous. If er- 

 ror he made, it was one in judgment and 

 not one of the heart. K\en at most the 

 charge can be no more than a technical vio- 

 lation of the law. Dr. Wiley's whole career 

 from first to last has shown that, if he had 

 any dishonesty in his make-up, he would 

 have long ago sold out to these selfish in- 

 terests. The fact that the whole iiack of 

 them are trying to discredit and disgrace 

 him is not a little to his credit. It is a won- 

 der that they have not been able to find 

 some little thing against him before this. 

 It would a])pear from the jiapers that his su- 

 periors, jierhaps, had better have left him 

 alone; for people who live in glass houses 

 should not throw stones. At this stage of 

 l)roceedings we are not inclined to take a 

 snaj) judgment; but //'Secretary Wilson and 

 Attorney-General Wickersham have been 

 doing any thing that is contrary to the pub- 

 lic i)olicy, the facts should be known. 



At the present time it does not look very 

 much as if Dr. Wiley would be ousted; for 

 the i>ress of the country is almost unitedly 

 for him. He is too strong in the hearts of 

 the people, and he knows it. We admired 

 the spirit of the old warrior, when some 

 newspaper men came to him and asketl him 

 how soon he was going to resign. Said he, 

 "You fellows will wait around here a long 

 time before I resign." Dr. Wiley is a fight- 

 er and not a quitter. It is just such men 

 that we want to stand between us and those 

 who would rob us of our health and lives. 



It is gratifying to us to know that the 

 manufacturers of honest and jiure foods have 

 everywhere been sending in strong protests 

 to Washington, demanding the retention of 

 Dr. Harvey ^^^ Wiley. The Heinz i)eople, 

 who won't use benzoate of soda, ha\e been 

 among his strongest supporters. AVe our- 

 selves sent telegrams to our Congressmen 

 and Senators in Washington, urging them 

 to use their influence against having Wiley 

 dismissed. We also sent a telegram to Pres- 

 ident Taft, saying that we did not believe 

 that his sense of fair play would allow the 

 dismissal of Wiley. We respectfully suggest 

 that every bee-keeper who believes in pure 

 honey, and who believes in retaining the 

 man who has done more to wipe out glucosed 

 or adulterated honey from the market than 

 any other man during this century, do 

 likewise. Your influence is needed right 

 now; for you may rest assured that the self- 



ish interests of the country — interests that 

 do not care any thing about the lives of our 

 children and innocent babes, nor, in fact, 

 the stomach of the whole American nation 

 — will leave no stone unturned to disgrace 

 him. 



' Dr. Wiley has been one of the must use- 

 ful public servants who have ever been in 

 Washington; and the fact that he has stirr- 

 ed up a hornet's nest of enemies is not at all 

 surprising. It is greatly to his credit, for we 

 love him for the enemies he has made. Bee- 

 keepers especially have reason to be grate- 

 ful to him. See page 479. 



THE bee-keepers' REVIEW UNDER THE 

 NEW MANAGEMENT. 



Most of our readers know by this time 

 that Mr. E. B. Tyrrell, of Detroit, Michigan, 

 secretary of the National Bee-keepers' Asso- 

 ciation, is now editor and proprietor of the 

 Bee-keepers'' Bevieiv. During the transfer 

 from the old to the new management it was 

 necessary to skip one issue and get out a 

 double number. This number (now issued 

 from Detroit) is fully in keeping with the 

 former high standard of the Review in 

 every way, and Mr. Tyrrell is to be congrat- 

 ulated on keeping up the i)ace that Mr. 

 Hutchinson set. Some say that the new 

 Review is even an improvement over the 

 old. Mr. Tyrrell is a young bee-man with 

 an abundance of enthusiasm and a love for 

 the pursuit; and as he was a close follower 

 and ardent admirer of Mr. Hutchinson, we 

 have every reason to believe that the new 

 Review will continue to be the strong pajier 

 that it always has been. 



HONEY-CROP conditions. 



All, the evidence that has come in to our 

 ofltice so far goes to show that the crop of 

 white-clover honey is going to be light. 

 There seem to be only a few favored sec- 

 tions where it has been produced. Bass- 

 wood promised well ; and while it helped 

 materially to increase the amount of white 

 honey in the clover districts, it did not 

 quite come up to expectations. 



Latest advices show that California will 

 have a fair crop of honey after all; but the 

 shortness of the Eastern honey crop will 

 have a tendency to stilTen prices. Reports 

 are coming in almost every day, showing 

 that the drouth in the early spring is respon- 

 sible for a great deal of the shortage of East- 

 ern honey. The following letter from one 

 of the large producers is a fair sample of 

 what we are getting: 



The houey crop this year is next to a total failure. 

 We have 310 colonies of bees, and they were in very 

 good condition from early spring on. The total 

 honey crop this year is about 3000 lbs., and the 

 brood-chambers empty at that. In 1908 our honey 

 crop was 26,000 lbs.: in 1909 it was 16,000 lbs., and in 

 1910 it was 14,000 lbs., and the brood-chambers full of 

 honey. The cause of this year's failure was due to 

 the drouth and early hot weather in May, and all 

 through June. Basswood looked fine, and opened 

 up well, but was all dried up in three days. We 

 had our first rain yesterday since June 7, which 

 was of any benefit to vegetation. 



Forest Junction, W'is., July 24. J. F. Otto. 



