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pure honey, and I think that is what every 

 bee-keeper should do. I have no objection 

 to any one selling glucose, if they tell what 

 it is, but to sell it for pure honey is some- 

 thing that I am opposed to, and every bee- 

 keeper should take an active part in trying 

 to put a stop to any such work. I believe 

 Mr. Hunt has sold several thousand pounds 

 of the stuff in Minnesota. I think the bee- 

 keepers in the small towns where he has 

 sold bis so-called "pure honey," should 

 look the thing up. and let their friends 

 know what kind of suff they are buying 

 for pure honey. 



I have spent considerable time, and some 

 money, in trying to find out the facts as 

 stated in the above, and would be very 

 much pleased if .it would be published in 

 the Bee Journal. We have no law for 

 such work in this State, and the only, or 

 best, thing that we can do is to give them 

 notoriety through the bee-papers. What 

 will, or can, the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Union do in a case like this ? Will the edi- 

 tor, or Mr. Newman, kindly answer ? 



St. Paul, Minn. J. A. Holmberg. 



[We referred the foregoing letter to Mr. 

 Newman, the efficient General Manager of 

 the Bee-Keepers' Union, and here is his re- 

 ply to it: — Ed.] 



If this F. H. Hunt is the same one who 

 formerly lived at Centre Point, Linn Co., 

 Iowa, I would say that he seems to be at 

 his old tricks again. By referring to the 

 American Bee Journal for 1884, on pages 

 424, 475, 493, 563 and 724, the reader will see 

 an expose of his glucose-honey business. 

 Mr. Hunt sent a reply to these articles, 

 which was not published because of its 

 offensive personalities. 



Mr. T. L. Von Dorn. President of the 

 Nebraska Bee-Keepers' Association. brought 

 a bottle of the "stuff Mr. Hunt sold to 

 Mr. Tamblin (selected at random from a 

 ton of it), and submitted it, for analyza- 

 tion, to Dr. Arno Behr, Chemist of the 

 Chicago Sugar Refining Company. That 

 chemist found it to be "strongly adulter- 

 ated with glucose syrup, containing over 

 50 per cent, of its weight of the latter sub- 

 stance." 



After publishing this on page 724 of the 

 Bee Journal for 1S84, I remarked edi- 

 torially: "This looks conclusive;" and 

 Mr. Von Dorn adds : "It ought to cause a 

 blush of shame on those who have upheld 

 the fraud !" 



In Iowa Mr. F. H. Hunt (if it is the same 

 man), was satisfied with 50 per cent, of 

 glucose, but in California he seems to be 

 making it " almost pure glucose." 



If the matter can be so arranged as to 

 give a clear case of uiinuatakable identity in 

 the honey, tracing it to the person putting 

 it up and' selling it for honey. I feel justified 

 in saying that the National Bee-Keepers' 

 Union will pro|ecute the perpetrator of the 

 fraud. Thomas G. Newman. 



Chicago, Ills.. Nov. 16, 1893. 



[While it is a very serious matter to un- 

 justly accuse a person of adulterating 



honey, we publish the foregoing that those 

 who are doing such criminal work may be 

 warned to desist, or they may have the 

 Bee-Keepers' Union after them. Of course, 

 we do not say that Mr. Hunt adulterates 

 honey, but if he does not, he will now have 

 a chance to explain, if done in a gentle- 

 manly way. No " offensive personalities " 

 will be published in the Bee Journal, no 

 matter who writes them. — Ed.] 



Results of the Season in Kansas. 



Bees did fairly well in this part of the 

 c ountry the past season. As the spring 

 Was very backward and dry. there was but 

 ery little bloom of any kind for the bees 

 *o work on. I have 36 colonies of Italian 

 bees in movable-frame hives. Bees win- 

 tered very poorly here last winter, and did 

 not swarm very much during the season. 

 I hived 3 new swarms this season from 33 

 colonies, spring count, and got 40 pounds of 

 comb honey and 200 pounds of extracted, 

 of fine quality. 



I had to feed my bees the forepart of the 

 season to keep them from starving, until 

 the middle of June before they could gather 

 honey enough to live on. But I had my 

 bees in good condition for the honey-flow 

 when it came, and it did come in good 

 shape, too. but did not last very long. But 

 while it lasted, the bees just fairly rolled 

 the honey in— they filled up the brood- 

 chamber chock-full, and commenced in the 

 sections, when the dry weather set in, so I 

 did not get very much surplus honey ; but 

 the bees are in good condition to winter. 

 A. W. Swan. 



Centralia, Kans., Nov. 7, 1893. 



A Mild Kick from "The Kicker." 



On page 526 we have a criticism from Mr. 

 Stinger, that the American Aplculturtst is a 

 very tame affair, with the best part of its 

 name sunk into oblivion. Now, Bro. York, 

 the time was when we thought it heretical 

 to abbreviate, when we called people by 

 their full names, even though it was 

 Matilda Mehitabel, but that time is past: 

 we are living in a faster age. and want the 

 milk of the thing with as little refuse as 

 possible. Bro. Alley is giving it to us just 

 in the right shape — sawed-off, boiled down 

 and hammered into a small compass ; and 

 while we sometimes think he bites off just 

 a " Jeetle " more than he can properly masti- 

 cate, he mostly " gets there " about right. 

 The " Ajn.''^ is a dandy, and so is the Bee 

 Journal — just such papers as the majority 

 of bee-keepers need and want. They are 

 business. The Kicker. 



Enfield, Uls. 



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