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apiary, from the same flowers. — Mrs. 

 Jennie Atcbxey. 



1. This is rather a difficult question 

 to decide. The practical of the question 

 cannot be settled on reports as to how 

 far bees may sometimes be led by bloom- 

 ing plants or trees away from their 

 homes, but rather by experience as to 

 how wide a field do they ordinarily 

 work over in securing a crop of honey. 

 In my opinion, based on years of obser- 

 vation, the bulk of the honey crop gath- 

 ered by the ordinary apiary, comes from 

 a radius not exceeding one mile in every 

 direction. That bees go further than 

 this sometimes, does not prove anything 

 to the contrary of what I have sug- 

 gested. — G. W. Demaree. 



CONVENTION DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1892. 



Nov. 17-19.— Missouri State, at Independence. 

 W. S. Dorn Blaser, Sec, Higginsville, Mo. 



Nov. 28.— Allegany Co., at Angelica, N. Y. 

 H. L. Dwight, Sec, Friendship, N. Y. 



Dec. 1.— Carolina, at Charlotte, N. C. 



A. L. Beach, Sec, Steel Creek, N. C. 



Dec 13, 14.— Michigan, at Lansing, Mich. 



Geo. E. Hilton, Sec, Fremont, Mich. 



Dec. 14, 15. — Eastern Iowa, at Maquoketa. 

 Frank Coverdale, Sec, Welton, Iowa. 



Dec. 28, 29.— Vermont, at Burlington, Vt. 



H. W. Scott, Sec, Barre. Vt. 



1893. 



Jan. 13, 14.— S.W.Wisconsin, at Boscobel.Wis. 

 Edwin Pike, Pres., Boscob'el, Wis. 



Jan. 18, 19.— Colorado, at Denver, Colo. 



H. Knight, Sec, Littleton, Colo. 



Jan. 12-14.— Minnesota, at Minneapolis, Minn. 

 A. K. Cooper, Sec, Winona, Minn. 



JSP 1 In order to have this table complete, 

 Secretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time and the place of 

 each future meeting. — The Editors. 



North American Bee-Keepers' Association 



President— Eugene Secor..Forest City, Iowa. 

 Secretary— W. Z. Hutchinson Flint, Mich 



National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— James Heddon ..Dowagiac, Mich. 

 Sbc'v and Manager— T. G. Newman, Chicago. 



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Adulteration of Honey — Need 

 of Action by Bee-Keepers. 



Written for the, American Bee Journal 

 BY PROF. A. J. COOK. 



It needs no argument to show that the 

 greatest obstacle to success in the pro- 

 duction of honey comes from the manu- 

 facture and sale of a spurious article as 

 genuine honey. The question of win- 

 tering bees no longer purturbs the bee- 

 keeping public. We know the cause 

 and a safe and reliable cure of " foul 

 brood," and with such weapons in hand, 

 we no longer stand in helpless awe be- 

 fore this enemy of the honey-producer ; 

 the longest road finally turns, and so the 

 fact of poor seasons must soon be a 

 thing of the past ; but with all the 

 other impediments removed, success can 

 never be assured, except it can depend 

 upon a fair and reliable market. 



That adulteration of extracted honey 

 is very general, and that such spurious 

 honey is put on the market as genuine, 

 is certainly true. Byron Walker found 

 this fact a most embarrassing bar to the 

 successful sale of his honey in Detroit, 

 in the winter of 1890. Last winter he 

 found a similar condition of affairs in 

 another large city. 



Prof. Wiley's analyses by several able 

 chemists, of honey secured in various 

 markets, show that the practice is com- 

 mon and genoral. Thus we are con- 

 fronted not with a theory, but a condi- 

 tion. Thousands of tons of so-called 

 honey, manufactured not in apiaries, 

 but by unprincipled vendors in our large 

 cities, stand as a most discouraging bar 

 to apiarian success. 



The extensive production of doctored 

 glucose, in the first place, does for the 

 honey market what the wonderful de- 

 velopment of the great West, agricul- 

 turally, does for the market of general 

 farm produce — it gives a maximum sup- 

 ply, which is always murderous to 

 prices. More than this, the supply is 



