1906 



GLEANIXGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



149'; 



at many tons in j'our storehouse' to know 

 that, in a hhort time, it will be all sold and 

 you will have a nice sum of money to your 

 credit in the Ijank. 



Delanson, N. Y., Nov. 10. 



[Now that the Heplnirn pure-food law has 

 been passed, taking effeot Jan. 1st next, we 

 may reasonably hope that the severe compe- 

 tition due to "cheap honey pieced out with 

 glucose will, to some extent at least, be re- 

 moved. Nothing after that but pure honey 

 can be sold as honey. As there is unques- 

 tionably an enormous demand for honey, the 

 piecing-out of a short crop with glucose and 

 calling the mixture honey will not take place 

 as formerly. Even when the supply is good, 

 there will be but very little glucose adulter- 

 ation even then. 



While we may fear the effect of Cuban hon- 

 ey in a good year on the Eastern markets. 



PENNSYLVAXIAN 

 TION. 



DEMONSTRA- 



BY A SPfX'TATOK. 



One direct outcome of the Jenkintowu field 

 meeting is a greater interest being taken up- 

 on the Atlantic slope in modern methods of 

 bee-keeping, and a realization of the impor- 

 tance of keeping bees in modern hives. 



One of the interested spectatox's at that 

 meeting was Mr. J. K. Owen, of P'reeland, 

 Pa.. Avho is one of the State Inspectors of 

 Orchards under Prof. Surface, of Harris- 

 burg, and who witnessed with much interest 

 the demonstration given by the latter in put- 

 ting bees from an old box hive into a mod- 

 ern frame hive. Mr. Owen was then engaged 

 in orchard inspection in Monroe County, in 

 the eastern part of Pennsylvania, and at once 

 returned to his territory and carried to the 

 bee-keepers an account of what he had seen 



A PENNSYLVANIA ORCHARD-INSPECTOR GIVING A DE3IOX; 



TO TRANSFER. 



11 THE PROPER WAY 



we must not forget that there will be a con- 

 stantly increasing demand for honey now 

 that the glucose concoctions masquerading 

 under the name of honey will no more standi 

 in our way — at least in interstate business. 



We must not, however, expect an immedi- 

 ate advance in prices; and should Cuban 

 sugar l)e admitted free to the United States 

 at some time in the future, this will of itself 

 have a tendency to pull down the price of 

 honey, as many poor will buy the cheapest 

 sweet that can be had. We wish to indorse 

 particularly JNIr. Alexander's closing para- 

 graphs on creating erne's own market in spite 

 of the competition of cheaper goods. — Ed.] 



at the field meeting. These persons were es- 

 pecially interested in the method of transfer- 

 ring from antiquated hives to those of the 

 modem type, aad prevailed upon Mr. Owen 

 to give a rlenionstiation, showing the modus 

 operandi. This he did at Stroudsburg about 

 a month later, and the camei'a man caught 

 him ju.st in the act of holding up one of the 

 frames with the comb and brood. This shows 

 Mr. Owen on the platform, and a small 

 portion of the crowd near it. 



There was a large and interested audience 

 at the demonsti'ation. and so much was said 

 and publishtni aliout it that Mr. Owen was 

 asked within a few days to give another. 



