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Gleanings in Bee Culture 



THE PRIME MOVERS IN DISEASE LEGISLA- 

 TION IN INDIANA. 



BY JAY SMITH. 



WHY I PREFER A TWO-INCH GLASS IN SHIP- 

 PING-CASES. 



BY R. li. TAYLOR. 



I enclose a picture which I think will be 

 an adornment to the pages of Gleanings. 

 These men are not >\liite Caps nor mem- 

 bers of the Ku-Klux-Klan, neither are they 

 physicians administering to sufferers af- 

 flicted with bubonic plague. The further 

 gentleman, having more latitude and lon- 

 gitude than altitude, is Hon. Mason .J. Nib- 

 lack; and, although he is a bachelor, yet he 

 is the father of our Indiana foul-brood law. 

 The other gentleman, having considerable 

 height as well as depth, is Benjamin W. 

 Douglass, State Entomologist, and Inspect- 

 or of Apiaries of Indiana. 



Mr. Niblack prides himself on the fact 

 that the veils they are wearing are a home 

 product; but there are certain featvires about 

 them that might lead the casual observer to 

 infer that they were made in Germany. 



Vincennes, Ind. 



^ [The Indiana law is a good one, and the 

 father of it is to be congratulated. The ex- 

 cellent work that Mr. Douglass has done 

 entitles him to a better picture — one with- 

 out a veil. The State may well be proud of 

 him and his record. — Ed.] 



Benjamin W. Douglass, State Entomologist of Indiana, and Hon. Mason J. Nib- 

 lack, who fathered the excellent foul-brood law of that State. 



It seems to me worth while to say some- 

 thing further in elucidation of the case of 

 two-inch glass vs. three-inch, and I am mov- 

 ed to this now more especially because of 

 the manner in which Dr. Miller makes use 

 of quotation-marks in inclosing guesses of 

 his own, which, on a cursory reading, are 

 apt to leave the impression that the words 

 inclosed are mine, and I am confirmed in 

 this view from the fact that the printers suf- 

 fered them to remain — Oct. 1, p. 582. 



Now a few words that the doctor may be 

 informed as to why I think the narrow glass 

 looks the better; and, first, what is the pur- 

 pose of using glass? 



Plainly, it is not primarily to exhibit the 

 quality of the honey, for at most a two-inch 

 glass shows only about oV part of the surface 

 of the honey in a single-tier box of 28 sec- 

 tions, and a three-inch glass only about jV 

 part. At most the glass shows only a sample 

 strip; and isn't the two-inch strijo about as 

 satisfactory, as a sample, as a three-inch? 



But who would buy a lot of honey from 

 such a sample, even as shown by a three- 

 inch glass? No one, certainly. Either a 

 knowledge from inspection of the honey in 

 the interior of 

 the case is de- 

 manded, or a fa- 

 vorable knowl- 

 edge of the per- 

 soQ selling. I 

 once offered 

 some fine-look- 

 ing honey to a 

 grocer in a city 

 where I was not 

 known. He said 

 he would like 

 some honey if it 

 were as good as it 

 looked. "But," 

 said he, "I once 

 bought some 

 honey from a 

 man just as hon- 

 est-looking as 

 you; but when I 

 came to look in- 

 side the boxes, 

 the combs were 

 mostly crooked, 

 and some of the 

 sections were 

 bound together 

 by combs run- 

 ning from one 

 into another." 

 Now, 1 should 

 like to have the 

 doctor say what 

 d ifference it 

 would have 

 made if it had 



