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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



August, 



sides, it is time the American producer er, and that is the adoption of modern 

 did a little thinking, even though he business methods and a thorough cam- 

 may "fear" nothing. paign of education among the masses. 



'-KARO KORN" VS. THE REAL 

 THING. 



Ml". Morley Pettit, one of Canada's 

 I'ising apiarists, recently wrote: "I 

 wrote the S. S. Times Co. mildly pro- 

 testing against advertising Karo Corn 

 syrup as better than honey. I en- 

 close ^Ir. Howard's reply., You can 

 take the matter up as you see lit." 



Following is the reply of the pub- 

 lisher of the Sunday School Times to 

 Mr. Pettit's "protest:" 

 Dear Sir: 



"Your letter of June 27 has been re- 

 ceived. I am not sure that there 

 would be entire agreement among ex- 

 perts as to your suggestion that honey 

 is Nature's purest and most whole- 

 some .sweet. 



"Reference to Gleamings in Bee 

 Culture of ^lay 15, June 15 and Aug. 

 1. 190.3 and to the American Bee-Keep- 

 ev of March. June, July and November 

 1903 furnish enough facts about honey 

 to lead one to ask if after all Karo 

 Corn Syrup is not a safer article of 

 food. 



"It is our purpose to have only re- 

 liable advertisements in The Sunday 

 School Times but I do not see any rea- 

 son for insisting that the advertiser 

 should change the Avord 'better' in 

 the adA'ertisement to which you refer. 

 "Cordially yours, 



"Philip B. Howard." 



Though 'Sir. Pettit's ambition is 

 eminently commendable, it is, obvious- 

 ly, useless to ask publishers to turn 

 down profitable advertising contracts 

 upon the mere assertion of a competing 

 industry that the wares of its com- 

 petitor are inferior. Notwithstanding 

 the fact that bee-keepers are sincere in 

 tlie belief that "honey is Natui-e's pur- 

 est and most wholesome sweet." as 

 suggested by ^Ir. Howard, it is not 

 improbable that experts might materi- 

 jilly disgrace in regard to some minor 

 points which a thoi-ough, scientific in- 

 vestigation w(nild involve. It seems 

 that everyone should know by this 

 time, however, that glucose is not .a 

 wholesome food, owing to the acid con- 

 tained and -svliich. it api)ears, it is im- 

 possible to eliminate during the pro- 

 cess of manufacture. As seen from 

 our view-point, but one means of i-e- 

 lief presents itself to the honey produc- 



ANOTHER BEE— KEEPERS' 

 SOCIETY. 



We have received a copy of the 

 constitution and by-laws of theSouth- 

 western ()hio and Hamilton County 

 Bee-Keeper's Association, an organi- 

 zation incorporated under the laws of 

 the State of Ohio, June 14, 1904, also a 

 report of its regular meeting, which 

 was held .June 17, from Mr. Henry Red- 

 dert, the secretary. 



The ob.lect of the new organization, 

 as set forth in its constitution, is: 

 "The promotion of apiculture in all its 

 branches." 



Hamilton county, we have under- 

 stood, already has a most prosperous 

 and promising association, with a no 

 less worthy object, and we are some- 

 what puzzled to know why two bee- 

 keepers societies should spring up i-u 

 the same county within less than two 

 years. The information as to the 

 more recent • organization, however, 

 comes to hand too late to investigate 

 for this number of The Bee-Kee]ier. 



As the membership was not limited 

 in the original association, it cannot be 

 that a new society was necessary in 

 order to meet au overwhelming num- 

 ber of applications for admission; and 

 the problem becomes more and more 

 complex. 



Without inside information, as to 

 the actuating motives, we strongly in- 

 cline to a belief that a serious error 

 has been committed somewhere, as the 

 need of a second association in the 

 territory already covered is not ap- 

 parent. One stt'ong association la 

 worth a dozen tottering concerns, none 

 of which can hope for a membership 

 list sufficiently strong to command 

 either recognition or respect. 



"PAT" STILL IN CUBA. 

 The surprise of the season comes on 

 two postal cards from Cuba, dated July 

 10, and signed, "Pat." By way of in- 

 troduction our long-lost friend sa.vs: 

 "La casa ^^'8 que tiene pocos las ebejas 

 y ano 1903 estaba mal, y el punto tam- 

 bien not extra fine." Continuing his 

 mixture of Spanish, Russian and Eng- 

 lish Pat advises, on postal card No. 2 

 that he has taken in all since he ar- 

 rived in Cuba about 90 fifty-gallon bar- 

 rens of extracted honey; 2,500 pounds 



