1907 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



ness (or rather lack of it) of five-banded or 

 extra-yellow bees, write: 



Mr. Roof:— We notice in an editorial in May 15th 

 Gleanings that you give our grade of bees a rap, 

 stating that they spring dwindle more than others. 

 Ours don't bother us that way. We placed about 100 

 colonies In the cellar last fall, and have lost but one 

 of them to date, and that one was a strong one when 

 taken from the cellar, but starved to death during 

 the cold spell about April 1. We also wintered in the 

 cellar 52 nuclei, and they are alive to-day, and build- 

 ing up strong In addition to these we had nine col- 

 onies wintered out of doors, and they are all alive 

 and strong. Our bees are holding their own, and 

 some of the colonies have brood in eight frames out 

 of ten. DooLiTTLE & Clark. 



Borodino, N. Y. 



We ai'e glad to place this befoi'e our read- 

 ers, as we have reason to believe their stock 

 was not reared from the same ancestry as 

 the ordinary yellow bees. We did not in- 

 tend to convey the impression that all yel- 

 low stock was hard to winter or spring, but 

 that a good deal of it that had come under 

 our observation would seem to be very frail 

 and short-lived. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH MOLASSES AND SYRUP 

 AS A FOOD. 



The Louisiana Sugar-planters' Associa- 

 tion is just now engaged in an experiment 

 with a squad of negro prisoners in an effort 

 to determine the value of molasses as a food 

 for mankind. Thus far the expei'iments 

 tend to show that the feeding of both molas- 

 ses and syrup are useful foods. 



But what renders these experiments large- 

 ly useless is the fact that only the very best 

 grade of either syrup or molasses is being 

 used in the test. Most people are fairly well 

 satisfied that a high grade of either is good 

 eating; but what the general public would 

 like to know is the value of the other grades, 

 particularly the lower ones, on the human 

 system. For this reason the experiments 

 now being conducted can have but little 

 value, for the Department of Agriculture 

 would not be justified in giving ordinary 

 syrup or molasses a good character because 

 the highest quality stood a test. It would be 

 better for us all if low-grade molasses and 

 syrups were entirely eliminated from the 

 markets of this country. 



SUGAR AND ITS DANGERS. 



A German scientist of high repute, Dr. 

 von Bunge, in the Journal of Biology, has 

 just published an article, "The Increased 

 Consumption of Sugar and its Dangers." 

 This German savant says it is well known 

 that children who eat much sugar have bad 

 teeth, and are pale, and this is undoubtedly 

 due to the lack of phosphates — iron and 

 lime. This information comes from Ger- 

 many, where the price of sugar is very high 

 and the consumption limited. It is in Great 

 Britain, where the consumption of sugar is 

 far higher than in any other country, that 

 sugar diseases, notably diabetes, are more 

 common than elsewhere. It has been ob- 

 served that in cane-sugar-producing coun- 

 tries, on the other hand, the negroes em- 

 ployed are fat and healthy, yet this does not 

 alter the case any, because these laborers 



never use our white sugar, and, in fact, are 

 in the habit of extracting the juit^e of the 

 sugar cane by means of their own teeth. 

 In using sugar they much prefer raw sugar 

 made by a simple process similar to our meth- 

 od of producing maple sugar in the "woods. 



As a remedy, Dr. Bunge proposes that the 

 German government largely increase the 

 revenue tax on beet sugar produced in the 

 empire of Germany. 



THE APPOINTMENT AND .JURISDICTION OF 

 INSPECTORS IN ONTARIO, CANADA. 



Various conflicting reports appeared as 

 to the appointment, of inspectors and their 

 jurisdiction in the province of Ontario. De- 

 siring to get the facts we wrote to the ffinis- 

 ter of Agriculture, at Toronto, for an ofticial 

 statement. This has been received, and we 

 take pleasure in presenting the same kere- 

 with. 



TorcTito, @nt., .feme 14. 



Dear Sirs:— I beg to acknowledge your enesairy ef 

 the 11th inst. as to the jurisdiction of the Insi>ectors 

 appointed in Ontario under the Foul-brood Acjt, The 

 names of the Inspectors and the districts for which 

 they are to act are as follows: 



J. Alpaugh, Dobbinton, Ont.— Wellington, Waterloo, 

 Perth, Huron, Grey, Bruce. 



James Armstrong, Cheapside, Ont.--Norfolk, Brant, 

 Oxford, Elgin, Kent, Essex, Lambton. . 



James L. Byer, Mount Joy, Ont,— Ontari®, V'Moria, 

 Peterborough, Durham, Northumberland, HastiBgs, 

 Prince Edward. 



Matthew B. Holmes, Athens, Ont.^Lennol?sL-& Al- 

 dington, Frontenac, and all points east of those coiia- 

 ties. 



William McEvoy, Woodburn, Ont. — Wentworth, 

 Lincoln, Welland, Haldimand, Middlesex. 



H. G. Sibbald, Claude, Ont.— York, Peel, Halton, 

 Simcoe, Dufferin. 



The position occupied by Mr. McEvoy, who has hith- 

 ertoo acted as Provincial Inspector, is precisely simi- 

 lar to the other Inspectors, except for an arrangemeat 

 whereby he may be sent into other districts to ileal 

 "Tvith exceptional cases. Thjs, however, will be done 

 only under specific instructions from the D^-partment 

 and will in no sense interfere with the work of the 

 other Inspectors. Nelson Monteith, 



l^inister of Agriculture. 



"THE public have A RIGHT TO 5NOW." 



In the American Oroccr for June 5, under 

 the editorial caption of "The Public have a 

 Right to Know," the following paragraph 

 concerning Dr. Wiley appears: 



At the recent convention of the Cotton-seed Crush- 

 ers' Association, at Jamestown, Dr. Harvey W. Wiley 

 reiterated his of t-expressed opinion that honesty and 

 publicity were potent to build up and not tear dowyi 

 demand for an article. Referring to glucose, he said- 

 " The disadvantage under which glucose labors to-day 

 is due, in my opinion, to the persistent and determin- 

 ed efforts to distribute it among the citizens of this 

 country under some false name." 



We have already spoken of the good work 

 than Dr. Wiley was doing. The moneyed 

 interests vested in some food products hivv^e 

 no use for him. He will tell what he thinks, 

 and his i-ecommendations go a long, way in 

 the Department of Agriculture. Yes, he "is a 

 big thorn in the tlesh of those food concerns 

 that have been putting out adulterated or 

 misbranded goods. The glucose people 

 especially ~are opposed to him, and no won- 

 der, for he says things that hu-rb. If these 

 interests would be content t^ sell t'heir prod- 

 uct for what it is, and not attempt to palm 

 it off under new and well-sounding names, 



