1907 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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or female. In this connection it is interest- 

 ing to note that Swarthmore has succeeded 

 in getting a queen to lay in artificial queen- 

 cell cups. It will be remerobered that these 

 cups are about the same shape and propor- 

 tion as an ordinary teacup, only miniature 

 in size. But, small as they are, the diameter 

 is a great deal larger than that of the ordi- 

 nary drone-cell. The eggs that the queen 

 lays in these cups will develop females or 

 young queens. 



Yes, there are instances on record of queens 

 laying worker-eggs in normal drone-cells; 

 l)ut they are so rare that we may practically 

 say the queen never does so. In this con- 

 nection see the article by Kalph Benton, on 

 page 1025 of this issue. 



Do we understand you to mean that the 

 general consensus of opinio'; does not favor 

 the view that the queen can :i': will, and with 

 full knowledge of what sh-j is doing, lay drone 

 or worker eggs? Our best bee-keepers have 

 not generally favored the idea that external 

 circumstances govern the sex of the egg, or. 

 to be more exact, that the size or depth of 

 the cell had any thing to do with it. — Ed.] 



THE DEATH OF L. STACHELHAUSEX. 



The following note was received just as 

 we were closing up the last forms: 



Bear G««./7«me/i.'— Sorrowfully I have to let you 

 know that my dear husband, Mr. L. Stachelhausen, 

 died on the 7th of July, after a severe suffering of 

 eleven months. Hoping that the bee-keepers will keep 

 him in kind remembrance, I am respectfully 



Cibolo, Texas. Mrs. L. Stachelhausen. 



Mr. Stachelhausen was a German bee-keep- 

 er of international reputation, and the bee- 

 world on both sides of the Atlantic is losing 

 a valuable man. More particulars will be 

 given later. 



FOUL-BROOD INSPECTION FOK MISSOURI. 



Mr. M. E. Darby, of 408 East Commercial 

 Street, Springfield, Mo., has been appointed 

 by the State Board of Agriculture inspector 

 of apiaries for that State under the new foul- 

 brood law passed at the last session of the 

 legislature. 



It is now the bounden duty of all who 

 have the interests of bee-keeping at heart in 

 old Missouri to assist in every possible way 

 to stamp out the disease we call foul brood. 



The chief work of a foul-brood inspector is 

 to pj-event the spread of the disease; and un- 

 less bee-keepers keep him informed, Mr. 

 Darby can not do this. If he secures loyal 

 support the trouble can very probably be 

 stamped out or its ravages greatly mitigated. 



THE LEBANON COUNTY BEE-KEEPERS CON- 

 VENTION. 



'J HERE is one place in the United fctates 

 where the bee-keepers are undeterred and 

 unafraid, and that is in Lelianon Co , Pa. 

 On June 29 they held their annual meeting 

 at the Snyder apiaries, near Lebanon, in the 

 face ('f a northeast storm. The apiary se- 

 lected is fully up to date, containing 100 col- 

 onies of Banat, Caucasian, and Italian bees 

 in first-class hives, all nicely arranged. The 

 inclement weather caused the speeches to be 

 made in the barn of the owner, S. K. Snyder. 

 The following prominent bee-keepers made 

 addresses: Prof. Cyrus Boger, W. Shilling, 

 E. L. Pratt, E. L. Brown, Dr. Heni'y Town- 

 send, S. K. Snyder, Harold Horner, W. A. 

 Selser, and H. C. Klinger. Over a hundred 

 bee-keepers were present, and, in spite of 

 the weather, greatly enjoyed the occasion. 



THE QUESTION OF HONEY-LABELS, AGAIN. 



In our last issue, p. 950, we publish a let- 

 ter from Secretary Wilson, giving his ruling 

 on the use of certain honey- labels which the 

 Genex'al Manager of the National Bee-keep- 

 ers' Association had submitted to him. In a 

 word, it will be remembered that the Secre- 

 tary said it was not necessary to label pure 

 honey; but if a label were used it must not 

 be misleading. 



It will also be recalled that we wex'e not 

 entirely clear whether a bottler of honey who 

 purchased from other bee-keepers or fram 

 other States would be permitted to use the 

 usual words "put up by," even though the 

 product so labeled was pure honey. Accord- 

 ingly we addressed a letterto Secretary Wil- 

 son, enclosing copy of our editorial on page 

 950 of last issue, and asked for a ruling on 

 the point as to whether (to take a concrete 

 case) John Jones, of Blankton, Ohio, who 

 does a general bottling business in pure ex- 

 tracted honey which he buys, but which he 

 does not produce, would be permitted to use 

 the wording on a label reading "Pure ex- 

 tracted honey put up by John Jones, Blank- 

 ton, Ohio." In response to this we received 

 a letter from Secretary Wilson under date of 

 July 3, which is here given: 



Department of Acjriculture, 

 orfice of the secretary, 

 Washington. 



3Ir. E. R. Root:—l wish to acknowledge receipt cf 

 your communication of the 26th ultimo, together with 

 an enclosure of an editorial on the subject of labeling 

 honey. I have read this editorial with great interest. 



In my opinion the labeling of extracted honey should 

 be based upon the following considerations: 



There are two classes of extracted honey with which 

 the law has to deal so far as labeling is concerned; 

 1. That which is sold in interstate commerce by the 

 person who extracted the honey; 2. Extracted hon- 

 ey sold by persons other than the one who does the 

 actual extracting. In the first case, the per.son who 

 does the actual extracting may, if he desires, label 

 such extracted honey " John Jones' Honey." as in the 

 case of any other product labeled by the actual pro- 

 ducer. In other words, if John Jones had actually 

 extracted the honey in question he could put it up un- 

 der his name without his name being qualitied in any 

 way. In the second case, if John Jones shipped into 

 interstate commerce extracted honey from other 

 sources than his own labor, he would not be looked 

 upon as the actual manufacturer, in which case, in 

 accordance with Food Inspection Decision 68, John 



