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Prof. Hasbrouck said that most of 

 the adulterations in lioney were putup 

 in small bottlesand tumblers, but that 

 no successful adulteration had been 

 found in comb honey. 



The next meeting of the Associa- 

 tion will be held in New Brunswick, 

 at the same place, in November next. 



Prof. Kroeh thought that all the 

 members should co-operate in further- 

 ing the objects of the association, by 

 communicating witli each other and 

 preparing notes as to bee-culture, etc. 



Association adjourned. 



Marshall County, Iowa, Convention. 



Tlie Marshall County Bee-Keepers' 

 Association met at the court house in 

 Marshalltown, March 4, at 1 p. m. G. 

 W. Keeler acted as president. 



The Secretary read a short minute, 

 stating the cause of the failure of the 

 previous meetings. The society had 

 an interesting talk on the subject of 

 bee culture, wliich all felt beneticial. 

 Mr. Samuel Richey joined the society. 



The subject of meeting quarterly, 

 instead of monthly, vi'as deferred until 

 the next meeting ; also the election of 

 officers. 



Tlie subject for discussion at the 

 next meeting, is " care of bees in the 

 spring, and now to manage them to 

 secure the most honey." 



Adjourned to meet on Saturday, 

 April 1st, at 1 p. m., at the same place. 



All interested in the " busy bee " in 

 Marshall and adjoining counties, are 

 respectively invited to attend. 



G. W. Keeler, Pres.,pro tern. 



J W. Sanders, Sec. 



1^ A special meeting of the West- 

 ern Micliigan Bee- Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, will be held in Supervisors' 

 Hall, Grand Rapids, Mich., Wednes- 

 day and Thursday, April 26 and 27, 

 1882. Wji. M. S. Dodge, Sec. 



i^The spring meeting of the North- 

 ern Ohio Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will be held atNorwalk, 0.,on Satur- 

 day, April, 15, 1882. 



S. F. Newman, Sec. 



■»» ihe semi-annual meeting of the 

 Tuscarawas and Muskingum Valley 

 Bee-Keepers' Convention, will be held 

 in the Town Hall atCoshocton, 0.,on 

 Aprii 19 and 20. commencing at 10 a. 

 m. A cordial invitation is extended 

 to bee-keepers everywhere. 



J. A. BuCKLEW, Sec, Clarks, O. 



1^" Tlie spring meeting of the 



Mahoning Valley Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation, will be held at Berlin Center, 

 Mahoning Co.,Oliio,in the Town Hall, 

 on Saturday, March 25, at 1 p. m., 

 sharj). All interested in the science 

 of apiculture are invited to be present 

 and particiiiate in the discussions of 

 tlie day. The following questions will 

 be discussed: "The merits of the 

 different races of bees." " The best 

 method of securing surplus honey." 

 " Which is most profitable to the bee- 

 keeper, comb or extracted honey V" 

 An essay on pasturage or forage for 

 bees will be given. 



Leonidas Carson, Pres. 



i^The Champlain Valley Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association will hold their semi- 

 annual meeting at Middlebury, Vt., 

 May 11, 1882. T. Bkookins, Sec. 



i^ The Union Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation will meet at Eminence, Ky., 

 on the 27th day of April, 1882. A full 

 attendance is very much desired, as 

 important business will be transacted. 

 G. W. Demaree, Sec. 



Christiansburg, Ky. 



i^"The Central Michigan Bee- 

 Keepers' Association will meet April 

 20, at Lansing, in the Capitol building. 

 Programme. — President's annual ad- 

 dress. Rev. J. Ashvvorth ; bee hives 

 and fixtures, E. W. Wood; Cyprian 

 bees, J. Harper; the coming bee, 

 Prof. A. J. Cook ; care of old combs, 

 Stephen C. Perry. 



Rev. J. ASHWORTH, Pres. 



i^The Barren County Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association meets at Sinking 

 Spring school house, tliree miles west 

 in Glasgow, Ky., on the first Saturday 

 of April, 1882. All bee-keepers of the 

 county are invited. 



I. N. Greer, President. 



^"The Texas State Bee- Keepers' 



Convention will hold its meeting at 

 Judge W. H. Andrews' Apiary, at 

 McKinney, Texas, April 25, 1882. 



Wm. R. Howard, Sec. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



(ilucose Adnlteration and Conp-ess. 



— The Weslern Jiiiral remarks as fol- 

 lows on this subject : 



Food adulterations have attracted 

 the attention of Congress this winter 

 to a commendable degree, and there 

 are good grounds for hope that the 

 lionest producer will yet find protec- 

 tion from a ruinious competition, and 

 that the consumer will have some 

 guaranty that what he eats is pure. 



The business of adulterating food- 

 products is without a single exception 

 the most villainous that men have 

 ever engaged in. , It not only robs tlie 

 producer, but as a general thing, it 

 destroys health and life, and does it 

 under such false pretenses that the 

 victim is unaware of his danger. Yet 

 such enterprises have gained such 

 headway during the last few years 

 tliat millions of money are invested in 

 them, and every attempt to remedy 

 the evil is met by that peculiar sort of 

 influence wliich is common with men 

 who are engaged in disreputable prac- 

 tices. 



The efforts in Congress this winter 

 have been opposed by large, wealthy 

 and inrtuential delegations, who have 

 probably left nothing undone todefeat 

 the enactment of laws which shall at 

 least compel the manufacturers of 



adulterations to inform the purchaser 

 of their character before he purchases 

 them. 



The Western delegation of glucose 

 manufacturers represented to the 

 ways and means committee last week 

 that the principal opposition to 

 glucose manufacture, comes from the 

 sugar refiners, that it was a growing 

 Western industry, which furnished a 

 market for the products of the coun- 

 try, and that consequently it ought to 

 be encouraged. 



The first statement is absolutely 

 false. Glucose finds an opponent in 

 every cane grower in the country, and 

 cane growing in a country that is com- 

 pelled to import its sweets, is a vastly 

 more important industry than glucose 

 ever was or ever will be. 



It also finds an opponent in every 

 consumer who knows that he cannot 

 purchase one gallon of pure syrup, 

 either cane or maple, and that it is 

 with the utmost difticulty that he can 

 obtain a pound of pure maple sugar. 



It also finds an opponent in every 

 farmer who knows that he is com- 

 pelled to purchase adulterated sweets 

 and who realizes that by filling the 

 markets witli adulterations, he en- 

 courages dishonesty in all depart- 

 mentsof production, and thus endan- 

 gers his profits upon nearly everything 

 he grows. 



If glucose has friends, they are only 

 among those who are interested in the 

 profits of its manufacture, or who do 

 not know what it is or what the ten- 

 dencies of the business are. 



Passing over the fact that in the 

 manufacture of the stuff sulphuric 

 acid is used, and that the product con- 

 tains this poison in large quantities, 

 it is a fraud because it does not con- 

 tain near the amount of saccharine 

 matter that cane sugar or syrup does. 

 Even if the purchaser gets it for a few 

 cents less than he would have to pay 

 for sugar— which is not often the case 

 —he is cheated because what he buys 

 is largely destitute of sweetness. 



The Prospect, in California, for 

 Honey. — The Prairie Farmer of last 

 week contains the following: 



California bee-keepers are jubilant 

 over the prospects for a profitable 

 honey season. Colonies have wintered 

 well and are strong and healthy. One 

 thing there tlie bee-keepers begin to 

 dread, and that is the " Heathen 

 Chinee." Saysa correspondent of the 

 California Agricidtitrint : Wlien I find 

 them taking notes, I generally try to 

 be careless, and give them no chance 

 to get any practical information. I 

 understand that some bee men have 

 Chinamen to assist them at their work. 

 This I think a very bad arrangement. 

 Chinamen are quite fond of sweets. 

 Honey is too high-priced to meet their 

 idea of prices. If they should acquire 

 the system of bee culture, our occupa- 

 tion would be at once gone. That 

 they could learn to do as they see 

 others do is an established fact, and 

 the honey business is no more ditlicult 

 for theni to master than any other, 

 with their dogged perseverance and 

 cheap industry. My hope is that they 

 may never get the entering wedge. 



