Journal 



DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE PRODUCERS OF HONEY. 



VOL. XX. 



CHICAGO, ILL., JANUARY 9, 1884. 



No. 2. 



Published every Wednesday, by 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



Editor and Proprietor, 



Harmless Adulteration- 



A correspondent has sent us the fol- 

 lowing from the Toledo Blade of Deo. 

 27, 1883 : 



A writer in the Scientific American 

 demonstrates that while glucose is 

 found in almost all sugars and syrups, 

 no matter how pure they are declared 

 to be, the adulteration is yet a per- 

 fectly harmless one. People may par- 

 take of it all their lives and yet live 

 to a good old age. It is a pity that 

 the same could not be said of all adul- 

 terations. 



We saw the article in question in the 

 Scientific Ame^-ican ; but we concluded 

 it was too absurd to merit any notice ; 

 being evidently written in the interest 

 of that fraud— glucose— by some igno- 

 ramus. 



The Canner and Chvcer gives our 

 views on the subject exactly, in the 

 following language : " Adulteration 

 is the thief of trade. More tempting 

 than Delilah, for it woos with prom- 

 ises of golden gains ; it finds number- 

 less lovers among those who deal in 

 the staple-food articles of commerce, 

 and lures them on from bad to worse, 

 until finally they become hopelessly 

 entangled in a net-work of dishonest 

 practices. Under our at present im- 

 perfect laws for protection against the 

 sale of spurious goods, with but slight 

 danger of detection, and with a cer- 

 tainty of large profit, many a dealer, 

 finding his keener sense of honor 

 dulled by money greed, begins to adul- 

 terate the commodities he keeps for 

 sale, and thus enters into a career that 

 is more villainous and more danger- 

 ous to the community tlian that of the 

 old-time highwayman ; for through it 

 the public are robbed not only of their 

 coin, but of their health as well. This 

 infamous system has been growing of 



late with frightful rapidity until one 

 is in almost perpetual fear lest he be 

 eating or diinking some poisonous 

 compound instead of the healthful 

 article which it counterfeits." 



An exchange aptly remarks that it 

 " would be better, for instance, that 

 the courts should punisli bnrglars even 

 to the verge of inquisitorial persecu- 

 tion, and at the same time allow sneak 

 thieves to go unprosecuted, than that 

 they should, for the sake of ill-named 

 justice, allow both of these rascally 

 classes to go unscathed. Every case 

 of adulteration punished is a victory 

 gained for honest trade in general, no 

 matter from what branch of business 

 the offenders may have been selected." 

 Adulteration of all kinds should be 

 always strongly condemned by every 

 honest person. 



1^ Those who have become ac- 

 quainted with our youngest daughter, 

 (known to many as "Little Sunshine") 

 will be interested in the following, 

 from the Chicago Inter-Ocean of Sun- 

 day, Dec. 30, 1883 : 



Wednesday evening at the residence 

 of Mr. and Mrs. T. Q. Newman, No. 

 147 Western Avenue, a very pleasant 

 affair occurred, the occasion being the 

 marriage of their daughter, Matie, to 

 Fred II. Chenoweth, the Rev. Luther 

 Pardee ofliciating. None but relatives 

 were present. After receiving con- 

 gratulations the bride and groom led 

 the way to the dining-room where a 

 bountiful repast was spread. The 

 house was tastefully decorated with 

 evergreens, smilax, and flowers. The 

 bride was attired in cream- white gros- 

 grain silk, with Spanish lace over- 

 dress, the bridal veil being held in 

 place by natural flowers. The presents 

 were both numerous and elegant. 

 Amid the good wishes of all present 

 Mr. and Mrs. Chenoweth left for a 

 two w^eeks' trip south, and upon their 

 return will be at home to their friends 

 at No. 147 Western Avenue. 



1^ The Bee- Keepers'' Magazine, pub- 

 lished by King & Aspinwall, at 14 

 Park Place, New York, has been re- 

 duced in price to $1 a year, and is 

 printed with new type, on nice paper, 

 with a new cover. The Poultry de- 



partment has been dropped, and it 

 now confines its attention to the in- 

 terests of honey producers. They will 

 send a sample free to any address. 



^° The Sim, of Alfred Centre, N. 

 Y., says that Mr. Clark Rogers has, 

 "from 90 colonies, spring coimt, 

 crated and sent off this season, 4,895 

 pounds of honey, and has sold and on 

 hand for home market, 1,100 pounds, 

 400 pounds of which was extracted to 

 give the queens room. He has now 

 1-59 colonies in winter quarters." Mr. 

 Rogers is a progressive and successful 

 apiarist, and one of the oldest sub- 

 scribers to the Bee .Journal, and, of 

 course, was successful, even in a poor 

 season, as was the one just passed. 



^" The Daii-y and Farm Jmcrnal of 

 AVest Liberty, Iowa, remarks as fol- 

 lows concerning the value of literature 

 to honey-producers : 



The Bee Journal is almost indis- 

 pensible to the successful manipula- 

 tion of the industrious and persever- 

 ing little insects. It is true we have 

 often seen honey produced under the 

 management of parties who knew ap- 

 parently little more on the subject 

 than that the bees gathered the honey 

 and deposit it in the hive ; but we 

 have never seen any sort of farm stock 

 managed extensively and in any sense 

 successfully, where the manager did 

 not avail himself of all the informa- 

 tion, pertaining to his specialty, that 

 he could readily obtain ; and the Bee 

 Journal is worth many times the 

 subscription price to every person 

 owning an apiary, who readis it care- 

 fully. 



^ Up to Dec. 1.5 the weather was 

 beautiful and mild, then it became 

 cold and snow appeared— but since the 

 new year dawned, the mercury has 

 been dancing about between 20° and 

 40^ below zero. It will be difficult to 

 find the men now who have, during 

 the fall, been prophesying that the 

 winter would be " open, mild and 

 snowless." The predictions were 

 based upon the antics of the festive 

 wood chuck and the odorous musk 

 rats. It is cold enough now to satisfy 

 a Greenlander. 



