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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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The theory that the secretion of an 

 excess of chyle is responsible for the 

 disease, bee-paralysis, as set forth by a 

 contributor to Gleaning's some months 

 ago, is receiving all kinds of swats and 

 knockout blows from the shoulder 

 through the Australian press. 



Swarrhmore queen rearing appli- 

 ances received first prize at the British 

 Royal Show in London, June 2.5 to 30. 



Bees exhil)ited by Messrs. -Faaies Lee 

 & Son, which also secured first prize, 

 were from Swarthmore stock. An- 

 other feather in the cap of American 

 beedom. 



The Ladies' Home Journal, which 

 took occasion to brush up and again 

 roll the old Wiley "chestnut" about 

 nianufacturing comb honey, in its June 

 issue, has been gaining a little reputa- 

 tion for careless statements otherwise. 

 In its May issue it purported to en- 

 lighten its readers in regard to the in- 

 jurious ingredients of certain patent 

 medicines on the market. Dr. R. V. 

 Pierce promptly instituted suit against 

 the publishers, with a result that the 

 offending Journal takes it all back and 

 apologizes most humbly. Bee-Keepers 

 v.-ould be grateful for so wholesome an 

 apology for the injustice it has done to 

 them. 



"Hitter" a regular conMbutor of 

 first class material to the coluaiss of 

 the Australasian Bee-Keeper, protests 

 against the classing of the dark varie- 

 ties of honey as a low-grade product 

 simply because of its darker color; and 

 calls attention to the fact that honey 

 is not necessarily less palatable nor 

 less wholesome because it is not wliite. 

 He thinks the public should be educat- 

 ed to an appreciation of the fact that 

 color is not an index of quality. There 

 is much sound sense in the suggestion. 

 Jellies and jams made fi'om the darker 

 varieties of plums or grapes are not re- 

 garded as inferior to those made from 

 the lighter-colored fruits, nor sold at a 

 lower pi'ice. 



Our thanks are due Secretary James 

 A. Stone for a copy of the Third An- 

 nual Report of the Illinois State Bee- 

 Keepers' Association. The report 

 comprises 163 pages of solid matter, 

 presenting the constitution, by-laws, 

 meml)ership li.st and a copy of the law 

 which gives the association an appro- 

 priation for .$2,000 from the State. 



At the convention of the Illinois 

 State Bee-Keepers at Chicago last De- 

 cember, Fred W. Muth, president of 

 the Fred W. Muth, Company, of Cin- 

 cinnati, who, by the way, knows a few 

 things about honey himself, asserts the 

 belief that Frank Rauchfuss, manager 

 of tile Colorado Hone.v Producers' As- 

 sociation, is the best-posted honey-man 

 in the world. This is rather an envia- 



