THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Glucose or "Sugar'' Meal. 



Mr. George Thompson, St. Charles, 

 111., sends us the following excellent 

 extract from the Marengo Bepublican : 



13y the stench that arises from the 

 "sugar meal "—refuse from glucose 

 —which is being fed quite freely by 

 some of the dairymen hereabouts, one 

 might think that such stuff would 

 make very poor milk and butter. And 

 it does; it is one of the wmsl forms 

 of food adulteration— injurious alike 

 to the cows and those who use their 

 products. Some cheese and butter 

 factories will not use milk from cows 

 that are fed with the stuff. No fac- 

 tory should. It is just as bad as oleo- 

 maVgerine, suine, or any other form 

 of bogus butter. And then tlie dairy 

 cows when worn out are brought to 

 the butcher's block and cut up for 

 meat. Such meat is just as deleteri- 

 ous as an article of food as the butter. 

 With such refuse entering into the 

 milk, butter and meat that people use, 

 is it any wonder that scrofula, cancer, 

 paralysis and kindred diseases, rage 

 among the people, who. thoughtlessly 

 perhaps, hold their breath and in- 

 quire, " What is the cause of so much 

 disease';' " It may not all lie at the 

 door of " sugar meal," but it is a most 

 fruitful source, and dairymen will 

 sooner or later learn that" it is very 

 unproUtable stuff in every respect. 



The Bepublican makes a most excel- 

 lent and truthful point in its refer- 

 ence to the poisoning of the flesh 

 which is sold in market from the cat- 

 tle that are fed on the glucose refuse 

 meal. If the cheese will " rot down 

 in thirty days," from the imi)urities 

 in the milk, is it not reasonable to 

 suppose those impurities will more or 

 less permeate the flesh, and cause 

 therein a latent poison, to be taken 

 up and developed by the human sys- 

 tem, to the extent of destroying life 

 itself':' When the trichina became an 

 alarming feature in the consumption 

 of pork, thousands of persons ab- 

 stained from its use, and substituted 

 the greater use of beef therefor, sup- 

 posing that the latter Indeed would 

 be free from disease, and, as a conse- 

 quence, beef appreciated in value, and 

 to a very large extent superseded 

 the domestic use of pork; but where 

 can we turn for a substitute for beef, 

 if farraeis and dairymen will persist 

 in feeding glucose mear:" So that 

 every phase of the glucose traftic is a 

 pernicious fraud, and everything 

 should be condemned into which it 

 enters— the poisoned sugar, poisoned 

 syrup, poisoned honey. poisoned milk, 

 poisoned, rotten cheese, poisoned beef, 

 and everything else where it affords a 

 profitable field for substitution and 

 fraud. 



Wise Precaution. — There is a strong 

 tendency among tlie people of this 

 country to be led astray by novelties 

 and pretentious advertisements of 

 fortunes to be obtained without giv- 

 ing an equivalent. Many papers now- 

 a-days contain more or less adver- 

 tisements for some new and superior 

 variety of vegetable, fruit, or berry, 

 and a limited number of seeds, plants 

 or cuttings to be sold at extortionate 

 prices. In fact, one is led to believe 

 that the great aim is to obtain some- 

 thing new, on which to assume a 

 great number of superior features, 

 trusting to the credulity of the pub- 

 lic to make prolitable sales. As in- 

 directly bearing upon this subject the 

 liuval Canadian says : 



The eminent and venerable pomolo- 

 gist, Charles Downing, does not con- 

 sider it safe to give a decided opinion 

 on any new strawberry or raspberry 

 short of five years' trial. If all were 

 similarly cautious, much money would 

 be saved in the purchase of untested 

 novelties. 



We have no doubt that there are 

 many varieties of corn, potatoes, cab- 

 bages, and, i)0ssibly, almost every 

 species of fruit, grain and vegetables, 

 which would be benefitted by having 

 the same extended test applied. 



i^We have just received a letter 

 addressed "T. C. Kewman, Chicago, 

 111.," enclosing a post office money or- 

 der for subscription to the Bee Jour- 

 nal. In a city like Chicago, there 

 are several hundred persons bearing 

 the name Newman, and unless great 

 care is used, valuable letters are lost, 

 and correspondents frequently blame 

 us, when the fault is all their own. In 

 the case referred to above, the letter 

 was wrongly deliveredby the postman, 

 and the party to whom it was ad- 

 dressed sent it to us. Unless positive 

 about our name, address your letters 

 to the "American Bee Journal, 

 Chicago, 111.," when we will get it 

 without delay, as there is no other 

 paper of that name in this city. 



1^ We have received, too late for 

 insertion this week, an article entitled 

 " Queen Shipping Cages," from W. Z. 

 Hutchinson, Rogersville, Mich.; also 

 one of the cages described, containing 

 an untested queen and 10 workers. 

 The article will appear next week, 

 with comments. 



1^ Articles for publication must be 

 written on a separate piece of paper 

 from items of business. 



British Honey Sliows.— The British 

 Bee-Keepers' Association held its an- 

 nual metropolitan Show of bees, hives, 

 honey, etc., during the first week of 

 this month. We have news only up 

 to the day of opening, Aug. 3d, when 

 about 300 entries had been made. 

 The Exhiliition Committee have 

 arranged to conduct an examination 

 of candidates who are desirous of 

 gaining certificates of proficiency in 

 the art of bee-keeping. Eighteen 

 candidates have entered for such an 

 examination, among the number be- 

 ing several schoolmasters. 



The Show of tlie Berks and Bucks 

 Association was held at Buckingham, 

 on Tuesday, the 2.5tli of July, in con- 

 nection with the Show of the Horti- 

 cultural Society. A remarkably fine 

 day, together with the numerous at- 

 tractions of the flowers, vegetables, 

 dead poultry, eggs, fruit, hives, honey, 

 bee-driving, etc., drew together a 

 large concourse, not only of the mid- 

 dle and lower classes, but of the no- 

 bility and gentry of the town and 

 county, the clergy being especially 

 conspicuous by their numbers. The 

 prizes were numerous, and included 

 hives, bees, honey, and public mani- 

 pulations with bees. 



i^A Colorado correspondent wishes 

 to know how he can dispose of a fer- 

 tile worker and save the colony? Re- 

 move the hive from its present stand 

 and put an empty one in its place; 

 take out a comb from the colony, 

 shake and brush all the bees off, cage 

 a mated queen on it, and put it in the 

 empty hive on the old stand; now 

 shake and brush all the bees from the 

 combs, successively, on the ground 3 

 or 4 feet in front of the hive on the 

 old stand, and fast as clean put the 

 combs in the same hive with the queen. 

 Leave the queen caged with plenty of 

 feed for 48 hours, then release her. 



1^ On referring to our letter depart- 

 ment, it will be observed Mr. A. B. 

 Mason urges upon bee-keepers the 

 importance of making early entries at 

 the Tri-State (Ohio, Michigan and In- 

 diana) Fair, to be held in Toledo in 

 September. The enterprise of this 

 Fair Association is worthy of a lib- 

 eral support from bee-keepers, more 

 especially as the managers propose to 

 erect additional buildings for our ac- 

 commodation. Tliere should be no 

 dilly-dallying in the matter, but make 

 the entries liberally and promptly 

 Mr. Mason will give all the informa- 

 tion that may be desired. 



