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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



their journals, associations and con- 

 ventions, are using every means 

 possible to crush out this evil of 

 adulteration, and we feel assured 

 that even the adulteration of ex- 

 tracted hone}^ in nearly every 

 instance takes place after it has left 

 the beekeeper's hands. It does not 

 pay to adulterate comb honey. 

 We have experimented with feeding 

 back honey to have the section 

 completed and found that the waste 

 would eat up the profit. 



After an extended acquaintance 

 with many of our most prominent 

 apiarists, a practical knowledge of 

 comb honey and the methods used in 

 obtaining it, we feel warranted in 

 stating that we do not believe that 

 our beekeepers ship a pound of 

 adulterated comh honey, and that 

 when extracted honey is adulterated 

 such adulteration takes place after 

 it leaves the beekeeper's hands. 

 And here let us state that it is our 

 firm and candid opinion that the 

 beekeepers of America should co- 

 operate in one grand body strong 

 enough to command protection or 

 protect their own interests, and if 

 needs be place agents in foreign 

 countries who would deal honestly 

 in handling their honey. This may 

 and should be accomplished, or our 

 reputation will continue to be in- 

 jured by just such reports as the 

 above. 



We are pleased to know that the 

 N. E. B. A. of New York state 

 have laid the foundation of such an 

 association, and the secretaiy, Mr. 

 Geo. W. House, of Fayetteville, 

 N. Y., is earnestly and energetically 

 at work trying to institute such an 

 organization. We would ui'ge our 

 readers and beekeeping friends to 

 come and join with him and assist 

 him in this work. 



The writer then touches upon the 

 best methods of beekeeping and 

 shows that our English cousins are 

 fast leaving behind the straw skeps 

 and taking up the frame hives, 



extractors, and implements of ad- 

 vanced beekeeping. He favors early 

 stimulative feeding and states that 

 there is gi-eat gain from it, also 

 feeding during periods of scarcity, 

 both to keep up breeding and for 

 the purpose of building surplus 

 combs from foundation, for future 

 use. He also favors extracting all 

 of the honey in the fall and supply- 

 ing the bees with sugar-syrup for 

 winter stores. Finall}^ he appeals 

 to his fellow-countrymen to pay 

 more attention to the advancement 

 of apiculture, organization of asso- 

 ciations, the study of bee-literature, 

 and the improvement of every 

 opportunity to master apiculture. 

 Wisely referring to the indepen- 

 dence that comes to the laboring- 

 man from being the owner of a few 

 colonies of bees and hence a prop- 

 erty owner. The article savors of 

 enterprise and energy. 



EXCHANGES. 



Report from a Chicago Honey- 

 man, R. A. Burnett, of Chicago. 

 — I sold, of comb-honey crop of 



1882, up to the first of January, 



1883, nearly 120,000 lbs. ; from 

 January 1st to April 1st, sales 

 were slow, and yet 70,000 lbs. 

 have been disposed of. There are 

 perhaps a few tons of dark and 

 buckwheat comb-honey on this 

 market that will not be consumed 

 before the new crop comes into 

 market. There have been three 

 pounds of comb-honey crop of 

 1882 offered in this market, to one 

 of the crop of 1881. 



Extracted hone}' has aggregated 

 in sales 140,000 lbs. There is 

 perhaps much to carry over yet 

 on the market. Prices since the 

 first of December, 1882, have grad- 

 ually declined until the present 



