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the subject so thoroughly that we all 

 felt disposed to accept it as conclusive; 

 but if it is necessary for us to inform out- 

 fellow bee-keepers that we have our 

 shoulder at the wheel, we hereby do so. 



I can assure you the California bee- 

 keepers are very much interested in this 

 subject of " Adulteration," and I know 

 that Mr. Newman and the Bee-Keepers' 

 Union have their hearty support, both 

 financially and otherwise. The Union 

 ought to take the aggressive in this 

 movement, and if its present Constitu- 

 tion and By-Laws are inadequate, why 

 not change them to meet the demands ? 



I, for one, am not disposed to part 

 with our present management, and, 

 with sufficient remuneration for his 

 labors, I know of no one better fitted for 

 the superintendency of this work than 

 Thomas G. Newman. The work would 

 undoubtedly be more than one person 

 could attend to, consequently with an 

 efficient assistant Mr. Newman could 

 score a lasting victory as the crowning 

 effort of a life-long interest in behalf of 

 the bee-keepers of the United States. 



Los Angeles, Calif., Nov. 29, 1892. 



Honey Adulteration — Appeal to 

 Bee-Iieepers. 



Written for the, American Bee Journal 

 BY PROF. C. L. STRICKLAND. 



After the reading of the articles by 

 Prof. Cook and Thomas G. Newman, I 

 feel very much like saying " Amen." I 

 feel my inability to add anything more ; 

 however, I will say that the adulteration 

 of honey does exist, and has long been 

 going on. I have fears within me, about 

 conquering this dark affair. Never- 

 theless, I know that it could and should 

 be done, and I feel like saying it must 

 be done, or we honey-producers might 

 just as well select a day wherein to stack 

 our bees and hives and say, "Let her 

 go, Gallagher !" Heaven forbid. 



But the trouble is with mankind in 

 general that they are too much disposed 

 to hope for, instead of work for, a 

 change. Lamentable fact ! Now the 

 secret of the undertaking is how on 

 earth are we going to work on the minds 

 of this vast number of bee-keepers ? 

 How arouse them to such a condition 

 that they can see through the fog of the 

 future sufficiently to alarm them ? They 

 all should become interested. Why ? 

 Because it takes money, in this progres- 

 sive age, to combat with any foe. There 

 exists at Washington, parties able to 



prosecute this affair to a bitter end, we 

 only furnishing the capital. We are 

 more able to pay, say $1.00 each, than 

 to have the honey market forever ruined. 

 Producers, we cannot afford to let this 

 monster reach a race-horse speed ! 

 " Never." 



AN APPEAL TO BEE-BEEPER8. 



Bee-keeping friends of America, we 

 are well aware of the fearful condition 

 in the line of manufacturing and offer- 

 ing for sale articles called "honey," and 

 the adulteration of the genuine article, 

 so much so as to almost ruin the markets 

 for the genuine article. How ? Why ? 

 By the impressions on the minds of the 

 consuming public. The price of honey 

 depends upon the consumption. The 

 consumption depends upon the condi- 

 tions of the consumers. When the con- 

 suming public realizes that the adultera- 

 tion of honey can no longer exist, and 

 that all the honey offered for sale is 

 pure, and we can convince the masses 

 that honey is not a luxury, but is for all, 

 both tall and wise; and being not only 

 a food, but at the same time a medicine, 

 then, and only then, will we see the 

 greatest consumption of this delicious 

 and God-given article we have ever 

 known. 



All thinking bee-keepers, after due 

 reflection, must see that the adulteration 

 and manufacturing and selling of artifi- 

 cial honey is the darkest and most hor- 

 rible barrier that we producers can have, 

 or ever will have. Now, must this great 

 army of intelligent bee-keepers, right in 

 the face of this ungodly proceeding, only 

 fold their hands in mortal terror, and 

 let it slide over them like an avalanche, 

 and forever hide this glorious, beautiful 

 and intelligent business ? It must not 

 be. 



Now let us put our shoulder to the 

 wheel— I mean the master wheel 

 (money). Only a dollar each, then a 

 little energy, a little push, and the great 

 machinery of Defense will begin to 

 move, and ere long this fog of oppres- 

 sion would cease to be. 



Mark you, while the condition exists, 

 poor prices, poor consumption, poor 

 honey will be the result. " When gone," 

 good prices, good consumption, good 

 hODey, good bee-keepers, in good spirits. 



Now we must have either, a State or 

 United States law. A United States law 

 would be the best Let us try. We must 

 do something, and that soon. As Mr. 

 Newman is growing old, he yet might 

 have no serious objections to receiv- 

 ing our contributions, and use the same 



