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•THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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checkt every honest man will, ere long, be compelled to quit 

 business. 



Many of the States have good laws which cannot be en- 

 forced, owing to the "Original Pacliage " decision of the 

 Supreme Courts, which prevents the several States from 

 effectually controlling this matter — hence, it becomes neces- 

 sary to enact a Federal Statute to prevent the Inter-State 

 Traffic in such commodities. House Bill No. 5-t-l:l, introduced 

 by Hon. Marriot Brosius, of Pennsylvania, is now soon to be 

 considered by the Committee of the House. 



As there are divergent views as to some minor points of 

 this measure, which should be reconciled by a consultation of 

 the interested parties, and believing that it is the desire of 

 the great mass of manufacturers, producers and consumers to 

 reconcile all such differences to unite in urging the adoption 

 of a Pure Pood Law by Congress, so as to sustain the good 

 name of the Nation, and preserve the health and integrity of 

 our people, therefore, the undersigned hereby call a Pure 

 Food and Drug Congress, to assemble in the city of Washing- 

 ton, D. C, at the National Hotel, at 12 o'clock, m., on 

 Wednesday, March 2, 1898. 



Arrangements have been made for reduced railroad trans- 

 portation and hotel rates, the latter being fixt at $2.00 to 

 $2.50 a day. 



Address all communications to the Secretary, A. J. Wed- 

 derburn, Headquarters Food and Drug Congress, Parlor 11, 

 National Hotel, Washington, D. C. 

 By order of the committee 



Frank Hu.me, 



Matthew Trimble, 



Wm. C. Woodward, 



R. N. Harper, 

 Washington, D. C, Jan. IS, 1898 



An appointment of delegates is made in connection with 

 the foregoing call, which embraces, as far as possible, every 

 interest involved in the production, manufacture and sale of 

 food, drug and liquor products — in proportion to the numbers 

 engaged therein. It embraces scientists and health depart- 

 ments, as well as those who have charge of local laws in the 

 various States and Territories. 



Of course honey producers are greatly interested in this 

 subject, and we may say that each State bee-keepers' associa- 

 tion Is authorized to appoint one delegate, and three each by 

 the National and the United Status Bee-Keepers' Unions. 



As chairman of the Executive Committee, we expect by 

 another week to be able to announce the names of those who 

 will represent the United States Bee-Keepers' Union. We re- 

 gard it as a very important occasion, and trust that the efforts 

 of the proposed Congress may result in something of great 

 value to the producers of pure food in this country. Just now 

 we believe that there is no other subject that should so con- 

 cern the bee-keepers of this land. 



J. D. HiRD, 

 Beriah Wilkins, 

 Alex. J. Wedderburn, 



Secretary. 



The Leahy Mfg. Co. reported in a letter sent us Feb. 1, 

 that they were running their factory day and night. 



^~ Mr. Geo. F. Eobbins, of Sangamon Co., III., has gone to 

 Uvalde Co., Tex., to keep bees. He reports that there are 

 more bee-keepers down there than he ever thought there were 

 anywhere in the same extent of territory. 



Mr. Jas. a. Stone, Secretary of the Illinois State Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, will read a paper on " Bee-Keeping In 

 Illinois," before the State Farmers' Institute, which meets at 

 Champaign, HI., the last week of this month. 



The A. I. Root Co., writing us Jan. 29, said that altho 

 they had sent out five carloads of bee-supplies that week, 

 they still had on hand orders for ten carloads more. About 

 three or four carloads a week, with the small orders, is about 

 the limit of their factory capacity. 



Wedding Bells as well as sleigh bells have been ringing 

 at " Rootville" this month, and at least two of the Root- 

 villians are supremely happy. Miss Constance M. Root, 

 daughter of Mr. A. I. Root, was married, Feb. 1, to Mr. A. L. 

 Boyden, one of The A. I. Root Co.'s most faithful and trusted 

 employes. Our heartiest congratulations are hereby extended 

 to the happy pair. 



We don't know whether there is any rule about it or not 

 down there among the Roots, but if we remember rightly Mr. 

 Calvert, the business manager, after being in the employ of 

 Mr. Root for awhile, won the hand and neart of his eldest 

 daughter ; then, Ernest R. Root did the same thing with one 

 of their charming lady employes— Miss Elizabeth Humphrey ; 

 aud now Miss Constance captures (or more likely was cap- 

 tured by) Mr. Boyden. And so it goes. But so long as every- 

 body is happy aud contented, aud each has the " best com- 

 panion in the world," what more can be desired ? 



Our congratulations to the Root-Calvert-Root-Humphrey- 

 Root-Boyden-and-A.-I.-Root combination of Roots and Root- 

 lets. 



Dr. Miller, in McHenry Co., 111., writing us Jan. 26, 

 said : . 



" What a blizzard it was yesterday. We're snowed in. 

 Made no attempt to get farther than the barn yesterday, and 

 we seem quite lost to go a day Without the mail. Oh, for free 

 rural delivery ! After I get this letter in the envelope, I'll 

 take the cutter and a shovel aud see what I can do toward 

 getting to town. At the back door the snow is Bve to six feet 

 deep." 



"Later.— Feb. 2— 93 below zero yesterday; snow 1» 

 Inches on a level, but not much of it left level— piled up ^In 

 drifts and drifting all the time ; 9-' higher to-day, but as I'm 

 writing without coat or vest, I've no reason to complain." 



Mr. John A. Pease, in the Pacific Bee Journal, tries to 

 come a rather bright trick on us by training our own battery 

 on US, by asking us to use the same argument for encouraging 

 the making of new bee-keepers that we used for publishers of 

 new bee-papers. But we fail to see wherein the two can be 

 compared. Good deal of difference in a bee-keeper and a bee- 

 paper. When a new bee-keeper stops he generally loses only 

 his own money ; but a short-lived bee-paper usually loses some 

 money for its subscribers, also, and almost invariably proves 

 of no benefit to its publishers or the public. But Mr. Pease 

 writes very well. 



Dr. p. C. Gress, of Atchison Co., Kan., met with a heavy 

 loss by fire Jan. 27. There were destroyed 153 colonies of 

 bees, numerous empty hives, 5.000 pounds of honey in cases 

 ready for market, 100 pounds of beeswax— in fact, everything 

 connected with his well-appointed apiary. The total loss was 

 estimated to have been about S3,500, partly covered by in- 

 surance. Dr. Gress had been working 12 years to build up 

 his apiary, and had one of the finest in the State. 



Rev. E. W. Pfaffenberger is the editor of the Western 

 Christian Union, publisht at BoonviUe, Mo. He has been 

 reading the Bee Journal lately, and in a letter dated Dec. 6, 

 wrote us: 



"I am much pleased with your style of editing the Bee 

 Journal. The matter is well and tastefully arranged, and is 

 always pure and wholesome reading Since becoming ac- 

 quainted with the Bee Journal we have been eating a good 

 deal of honey at our house." 



Mr. John H. Martin, of Los Angeles Co., Calif., reported 

 Jan. 31, as follows : 



"We are having a continuation of dry weather, and the 

 prospects of a honey-yield for the coming season are getting 

 very discouraging. We must have rain, and soon, in order to 

 revive the hopes of the bee-keepers." 



Mr. a. F. Brown, of St. Johns Co., Fla., wrote us Jan. 28: 



"Another disastrous freeze has visited our State this 



winter— Jan. 2 and 3— and as a consequence thousands of 



orange-growers feel extremely 'blue,' myself among them, 



as my groves are cut back badly." 



Mr. J. Q. Smith, of Logan Co., III., President^ of the 

 Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Association, wrote us Jan. 29 : 



" My bees are wintering nicely on the summer stands 

 packt in leaves." 



