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VoL XVIII. 



Chicago, 111., March 29, 1882. 



No. 13. 



Published every Wednesday by 



THOMAS C. NEWMAN, 



Editor and propbiktor. 



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TOPICS PRESENTED THIS WEEK. 



Editorial- 

 Glucose as a patent monopoly 193 



Editorial Items 193 to 196 



Increase by Division 194 



Cheap Quefens Asnin 195 



ConTeiitioii Notes— 



Local Convention Directory 196 



New Jersey tind Eastern Convention 196 



Marshall County, Iowa, Convention 197 



Notices 197 



Amoii^ Our Exciuin^es— 



The Prospect in California for Honey 197 



Glucose Adulteration and Congress 197 



Correspondence— 



I'roducinp Comb Honey— No. 3 198 



Pollen and Wintering Bees 198 



Albino Be.'S-Why SoCalled 199 



About Reurinu' Queens 199 



My I'^xperu-nce with Syrian Bees 200 



Heddon's Honey Board :iOl 



Over-Stncltine iind Marketing Honey 201 



The Call of the Strange Visitor 201 



Selections from Our Letter Box— 



Lonu' Idea Hives 202 



Gatherinu' Honey 202 



Early Drones 202 



Clipping the Queen's "Wing 202 



Wintering Well 203 



Ninety Colonies in the Cellar . 203 



Good Bee Pasturage 203 



The Season, Smokers, etc 203 



Beginning 203 



Answered to Roll Call 203 



A High Fence 203 



Improvements tn Bee Hives 203 



Good Increase 203 



Bee Moths 204 



B lizzard 204 



Bees Do Not Puncture Grapes 204 



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l|3liEi£f-p, 



1^" Mr. G. M. Doolittle is recover- 

 ing from his sickness, but Mrs. D. is 

 now prostrated by the same disease. 

 We hope both may soon recover. 



Glucose as a Patent Monopoly. 



In tiie Farmer^s Reviexo, for last 

 Saturday, vi^e find the following item: 



"Another monopoly has arisen 

 under the fostering care of our patent 

 laws. This time a monopoly is an 

 adulterant. The "National Confec- 

 tionery Company " claims patents on 

 the use of glucose in candies, and de- 

 mand payment of royalties on all the 

 glucose used by the confectioners in 

 the past, amounting to $10,000,000 or 

 more, and a royalty of }£ cent a pound 

 for the future. Tliis wUl be rough on 

 the candy men and dishonest sugar 

 "refiners," but the public will per- 

 haps be benefited, as the confectioners 

 say they will not use the glucose 

 under sucli conditions." 



We sincerely hope that the result 

 may be as stated by the Review — the 

 abandonment of the use of that 

 abominable trash in candies. It is in- 

 deed painful to see millions of child- 

 ren eating that death-dealing hum- 

 bug — glucose — under the guise of 

 candy. 



It is steadily being driven out of 

 use, and we are glad to see that one 

 by one, the manufacturers, wlio use it 

 as an adulterant, are dropping it. No 

 matter vphat may be the cause, so long 

 as it is done. 



It has been used by the makers of 

 printers' rollers, but as its use de- 

 stroys the elasticity of the rollers so 

 soon— tliey are dropping it I 



It has been used extensively in feed- 

 ing bees ; but tlie death of large num- 

 bers during the winter of 1880-1, and 

 the physical degeneration of bees and 

 consequent losses in spring, are too 

 much for the" bee-keepers" to endure, 

 and they are dropping it ! 



Tlie candy manufacturers have 

 used it so extensively as to cause a 



protest to come from pliysicians 

 against its use— but as the children 

 are tempted to obtain the vile trash, 

 and have not sufficient judgment or 

 knowledge to control their appetites, 

 let us hope that the " Company " 

 above alluded to, may, in their avari- 

 ciousness, remedy this evil. 



Thousands of thousands are rapidly 

 going down to the grave, who might 

 have been spared many years to their 

 friends and their country but for the 

 use of this monster adulterant. 



It is a great moloch, but it must 

 fall — let us "work and pray "for its 

 complete destruction. 



Wired Foundation. — We have re- 

 ceived from Mr. J. H. Martin, Hart- 

 ford, N. Y., samples of his founda- 

 tion. One is showing his method of 

 shipping wired foundation in little 

 rims weigliing about half an ounce. 

 These are to be fastened into the reg- 

 ular frames, and will save the trouble 

 of wiring tlie frames for those wlio 

 desire to use the wired foundation. 

 The other is a sample of thin founda- 

 tion for surplus honey, the bases of 

 the cells being lozenge-shaped, and 

 all equally thin. The samples are 

 very nice. 



New Price Lists.— We have received 

 new Apiarian Catalogues and Price 

 Lists from the following : 



H. II. Brown, Liglit Street, Pa. 

 J. M. C. Taylor, Lewistoivn, Md. 

 J. B. Bray, Lynnville, Tenn. 

 J. K. Martin, Hartford, N. Y. 



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