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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



June 29, 1899. 



QEOROE W. YORK, Editor. 



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United States Bee-Keepers' Association. 



Org-anized to advance the pursuit of Apiculture ; to promote the interests 

 of bee-keepers ;■ to protect its members ; to preveut the adulteration of 

 houe.v ; and to prosecute the dishonest houe\'-commission men. 



A/enibers2iip jFee— ^l.OO per Ajintiin, 



Executive Committee— Pres., E. Whitcomb; Vice-Pres., C. A. Hatch; 

 Secretarj-, Dr. A. B. Mason, Station B, Toledo, Ohio. 



Bo.iRD OF Directors— E. R. Root; E. Whitcomb; E.T.Abbott; C. P. 



Dadaut; W.Z.Hutchinson; Dr. C. C. Miller. 

 Gen''l M.iN.iGER .iXD TRE.isuRER— Eugene Secor, Forest City, Iowa. 



i-*iace and Date of A'e^t Xleetins^ : 



Ix Fkanklix I.xstitute, 

 IS.South 7th Street, between Market and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, Pa., 

 ' September 5, 6 and 7, 1899. Every bee-keeper is invited. 



VOL. 39. 



JUNE 2Q, 1899. 



NO. 26. 



Note— The American Kr,. J.iunial acl.ipK lln' Orthojrraphv of the follow- 

 ing Rule, recommended b\- the joint action of the American Philoloir- 

 ical Association and the Philological Society of England: — Chanire 

 '"d" or "ed" final to "t" when so pronounced, except when the "e'' af- 

 fects a preceding sound. 



Advance in Prices all along- the line seems to be the 

 order of the daj-, and with the advance of lumber and nails 

 bee-keepers' supplies are likeh- to have a rise. So reports 

 Gleaning-s in Bee-Culture. Well, that's all rig-ht, providing 

 the price of honey keeps proper step with the advance of 

 other thing's. But will it ? 



Salt to Kill Grass.— Editor Hutchinson, in the June 

 Bee-Keepers" Review, says that salt sprinkled around a hive 

 will kill the grass that is near it. It is better to thus kill 

 the grass for two or three inches around the hive than to 

 attempt to keep it cut. The lawn-mower cannot get near 

 enouigh to cut all the grass that g-rows close to the hive ; 

 and to keep it pulled, or sheared off, is quite a little trouble. 



•The Illinois Pure=Food Legislation. — In the Chicago 

 Record we find the following paragraph respecting' the 

 Dunlap Pure-Food Bill which was past by the State legisla- 

 ture at its last session : 



PURE-FOOD law's RKQUIRE.MENTS. 



The pure-food law creates the office of State food com- 

 missioner, who, with the advice and consent of the g:over- 

 nor, shall appoint two assistant cotnmissiouers. One of 

 these shall be an expert in the matter of dairy products, the 

 other a practical and analytical chemist, who shall be 

 known as the State analyst. The commissioner al.so shall 

 appoint six inspectors. It is made the duty of the food com- 



missioner to enforce all laws that now exist or that may 

 hereafter be enacted in this State regarding- the production, 

 manufacture or sale of dairy products or the adulteration of 

 any article of food. He is g'iven authority to prosecute 

 violators of the pure-food laws, and the State's attorneys" 

 in all counties are required to render legal assistance when 

 called upon to do so by the food commissoner. The law 

 contains sections which define food adulterations and reg'u- 

 lations regarding- the liranding and labeling of barrels, 

 boxes, etc., together with the penalties for violations of any 

 of the provisions of the act. 



We find that portions of the law go into effect, while 

 the balance of it waits until July 1, 1900. The State food 

 commissioner is to be paid a salary of S2,500 a year; two 

 assistant commissioners, $1,800 a year ' each, and six in- 

 spectors 53 a day each. 



The important thing is to get as commissioner a man 

 who is absolutely fearless and unpurchasable, if the anti- 

 adulteration laws are to be made effective. We shall be in- 

 terested to know who is to be that officer. We believe all 

 are to be appointed before Julj- 1, so we will be able to an- 

 nounce them in a verv short time. 



Apis Dorsata Found and Lost. — As previously re- 

 ported, Mr. Rambo, the missionary- in India, had secured at 

 least part of a colony of Apis dorsata. Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture for June 15 reports that no queen was found with 

 them, and all dwindled and perisht. A week later another 

 colony was found, and the whole colony successfully hived. 

 Next day they left the hive and brood-comb a,nd settled in 

 the roof of the building, apparently as if to build a comb. 

 Two mornings later they had disappeared, and Mr. Rambo 

 pathetically says, " So I am nowhere in partictilar.'" QuES : 

 If Apis dorsata won't stay in a hive in India, will they be 

 anv more likelv to do so in the United States ? 



Food of Larval Bees. — Prof. A. J. Cook, in a note to 

 us on the food of bee-larva;, says this about it : 



On page 276 is a note as to the character of the food of 

 the larvs. I think without doubt it is digested pollen. We 

 often see pollen that even shows its nature as the brood is 

 nearly mature. It is believed that very nearly the same 

 food is fed by the nurse-bees to the queen and drones. Some 

 have contended that this food was a secretion from the 

 lower head-glands. The truth is that this secretion is the 

 digestive liquid of the pollen. The secretion goes with the 

 latter to the stomach, where the pollen is digested, after 

 which it is regurgitated and fed to the brood, queen or 

 drone, as the case mav be. ' A. J. Cook. 



Work of the National Association In response to 



the suggestion made in a recent issue of this journal, Gen- 

 eral Manager Secor sends us the following : 



Forest City, Iowa, June 19, 1899. 



Editor American Bee Journal : — In the last Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal, on page 376, there is something more than 

 a gentle hint for the general manager to tell what the 

 United States Bee-Keepers' Association is doing in the in- 

 terest of bee-keepers. 



I am not much of a sportsman, but if I were to go fish- 

 ing for .speckled brook trout I would not send a small boy 

 ahead to throw stones in the pools if I wanted to catch any. 

 And if I wanted to get evidence against any violator of law 

 I wouldn't send Mrs. Grundy ahead to proclaim the object 

 of my visit and investigations. This is why we are not 

 publishing what we are about to do. But as this is a very 

 large country, and as a great majority of offenders prob- 

 ably do not read the bee-papers, it may do no harm to say 

 that the association has already begun the prosecution of 

 violators of pure food laws in a certain city 8.000 miles, 

 more or less, from Manila. We expect to spend S300 to S400 

 this j'eariii the interest of honey-producers. 



We hope to work up some test cases which, if success- 

 ful, will go a long way toward stopping the fraudulent salfe 

 of glucose for honey. 



Now, if anybody is interested in this line of work who 

 is not a member of our association, he (or she) is hereby in- 



