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Published by The A. I. Root Co., Medina, Ohio 



H. H. Root, Managing Editor E. K. Root, Editor A. L. Boyden, Advertising Manager 



A. I. Root, Editor Home Department J. T. Calvert, Business Manager 



Entered at tbe Postoffice, Medina, Ohio, as second-olass matter 



VOL. XLII. 



SEPTEMBER 15, 1914 



NO. 18 



EDETOKML 



Our cover picture for this issue shows a 

 bit of beautiful mouutain scenery as de- 

 scribed by Harold Hovind, page 722. Mr. 

 Hovind, as we can see by his letters, is a 

 natural-born teacher — a teacher who feels 

 like a father toward his pupils. Living in 

 such a country, is it any wonder that there 

 are so many whose souls reflect the gran- 

 deur of the magnificent scenery? May the 

 memory of the old Norse vikings be ever 

 fresh ! 



The above is the title of BuUetni No 8 

 of the State Board of Agriculture of Mass- 

 achusetts, that appears also to be a part of 

 the 61st annual report of the Massachusetts 

 State Board of Agriculture. It covers the 

 whole subject very thoroughly, and in a 

 style that any pei'son without any scientific 

 knowledge of botany can readily under- 

 stand. 



Such a bulletin would be of immense help 

 if handed out to fruit-gi'owers who are 

 ignorant of the valuable work done by bees, 

 or who persist in spraying trees while in 

 bloom. 



The Nett-weiglitt Law as itt 



aeg to 



From the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, Bureau of Chemistry, there is 

 issued a monthly, giving coi^ies of letters 

 from Department heads to the public. In 

 the issue for June there is a letter signed 

 by A. S. Mitchell, Secretary of the Com- 

 mittee of Regulations, Net-weight and Vol- 

 ume Law, that has to do with comb honey. 

 While we have already covered the point, 

 the following statement is of value because 

 it comes from high authority: 



The net weight of comb honey is considered to be 

 the weight of the honey and comb, exclus^ye of the 

 wooden section. It is believed that the tare weight 

 of these sections is easily ascertained, ani that the 

 filled sections can be readily sorted into approxi- 

 mately similar weights which mav be manned in ac- 



cordance with paragraph h of Food Inspection De- 

 cision No. 154. 



The individual units must be marked, and the 

 shipping-case may be if desired. The marking should 

 be done previous to their introduction into interstate 

 commerce. 



While the regulations do not prescribe the manner 

 of marking, as to whether a rubber stamp may be 

 used, the law requires that the statement shall be 

 plain and conspicuous. Stamping by means of an- 

 iline ink is frequently illegible, owing to 'ailure to 

 print or to the running of the ink. If suca a stamp 

 is used, care should be taken to make the statement 

 plain and conspicuous, as required by the act. 



A. S. Mitchell. 



Plain Sections of ttlie Same Capacity 



Attention is called to the fact that the 

 ordinary standard plain section 4 x 5 or 4^4 

 square weighs approximately % cz., while 

 the beeway sections, 414 square, weigh al- 

 most an even ounce. It would be perfectly 

 legitimate for the producer of plain sections, 

 in making up his minimum net weight, to 

 deduct % ounce in place of a full ounce. 

 His minimum net weight then should stand 

 about Vi ounce more than the same size of 

 section with the beeway. 



There have been a good many scattering- 

 rep orts of honey-dew, although not by any 

 means as many as during the season of 

 1908, when so many beekeepers over the 

 country got little else than honey-dew. 



We have learned 01 one beekeeper who 

 has secured eight or ten tons of honey-dew 

 honey, and who wants to know what he can 

 do with it. Of course, it cannot be sold 

 except as honey-dew honey. It occurs to as 

 that there are a number of manufacturing 

 concerns using cheap syrup. New Orleans 

 molasses, etc., for sweetening, and it would 

 seem as though a good grade of honey-dew 

 honey should be better than most of the 

 syrups thus used. For instance, manufac- 

 turers of stock food often use large quanti- 

 ties of syrup. New Orleans molasses, etc. 



