AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



787 



To Regulate Adulteration ! 



— The latest and most novel idea in re- 

 gard to the nefarious adulteration busi- 

 ness is the suggestion that it now be 

 regulated ! Just read the following sen- 

 tence, which we take from one of our 

 agricultural exchanges: 



This adulteration business is a great 

 evil, and robbery of the people, and it is 

 high time something was done to regu- 

 late it. 



It's a "great evil and robbery of the 

 people " is it ? Then regulate it ! Whew ! 

 Regulate robbery ! One would think 

 that some mummy had arisen especially 

 to write that sentence. 



No, sir ! bee-keepers don't believe in 

 regulating the robbery — adulteration ! 

 Not much ! They have too good sense 

 to have any share in such a suggestion. 

 What they want is to prohibit the rob- 

 bery by putting the robber where he 

 cannot steal from the people. This 

 country has tried " regulation " of some 

 other " great evils " — evils greater than 

 that of adulteration — and the more we 

 have tried to " regulate," the stronger 

 and more powerful and defiant have the 

 evils grown. 



Chicago would have had a fine time 

 trying to "regulate" her anarchists a 

 few years ago ! But she knew a thing 

 or two about such evils, and just hung 

 some of them, and the balance "regu- 

 lated" themselves accordingly, without 

 any further notice. In this enlightened 

 day of our civilization, if any one has 

 nothing better than "regulation" of an 

 evil to offer, he would better not open 

 his mouth, unless he wishes to be classed 

 with the party who " said in his heart 

 there is no God." 



A Correction.— In Mr. Fitz Hart's 

 letter on page 733, reatl, " he has dis- 

 covered that there is no foul brood virus 

 in pure honey whilst in comb-cells," in- 

 stead of the way it was printed, and you 

 will have it the way Mr. Fitz Hart in- 

 tended to write It. 



CONDUCTED BY 



Greenville, Texas. 

 Criminality of Food Adulteration. 



I have always believed that a man 

 who makes and sells spurious honey or 

 any other food, for that matter, is guilty 

 of criminal disregard of the lives of 

 others. The manufacturer of adulter- 

 ated foods, destroying human lives 

 (which it certainly does, by degrees, at 

 least), should almost be convicted of 

 murder. Of all species of selfishness, 

 that which prompts a person to adulter- 

 ate food is a menace to the lives of men, 

 women and children, merely because it 

 pleases his fancy to do so, to catch the 

 spoils of honest people. Such an one 

 will do anything to satisfy his own greed 

 for money. I know nothing more gross 

 and inexcusable. 



The country needs some stringent 

 laws on this point. A man should no 

 more be allowed to kill people by inches, 

 than he would be to dish them out 

 strychnine at once. So here is my dollar 

 toward the good work. I do not feel 

 that I can afford it, but will do so for a 

 good cause like this. 



Jennie Atchley. 



Kinds of Smoke and Smokers. 



"Bees and Honey"— page 781. 



First, I do not like poison smoke of 

 any kind, such as tobacco, kerosene- 

 oiled rags, etc. I do not think it neces- 

 sary, in the handling of bees, to use such 

 poisons. Plain, rotten elm-wood, rags, 

 or, in fact, any kind of fuel that will 

 make good smoke, is sufficient for me, 

 even for Cyprian bees. 



And I can use any kind of a smoker 

 that I have ever tried, and know no diff- 

 erence in my work. But, as to my pref- 

 erence, I take a " Bingham. " Though I 

 do not think the kind of smoker is essen- 

 tial. But get you a good smoker, and 

 go ahead. 



