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their yellow pets go for breakfast, tliey 

 will find good reasons why their Italians 

 build up faster in the Spring than their 

 blacks. 



Savana, Ills. 



Siar Sfn in tie Sections. 



ALLEN LATHAM. 



While on the street here yesterday, I 

 saw in a store what appeared to be some 

 excellent comb-honey. It was offered 

 at the low price of 18 cents, retail. I 

 said to myself, "How's this? I must 

 try a box." 



I took the box to my room and ex- 

 amined it. It was beautiful, and I 

 thought at first that I was deceived in . 

 questioning its purity. I cut the comb. 

 The honey was colorless and glassy in 

 appearance. I tasted it, and the flavor 

 was extremly mild. There was a bee- 

 taste, but the flavor resembled no honey 

 known to me, and I know nearly all the 

 kinds in this section of the country. The 

 taste left in the mouth was 'just that 

 which is left after eating granulated 

 sugar syrup. 



The carton in which the honey came 

 is labeled: "Choice Comb-Honey, from 

 the Green Mountain Apiary of O. J. 

 Lowrey, Jericho, Vermont." 



I am not the one to be sticking my 

 nose into business which does not con- 

 cern me, but I think that this is not 

 honey, and will bear investigation. 



I may be mistaken, yet I detected a 

 similar fraud practiced by Dr. Searles, 

 of Worcester, Mass. Last year he took 

 all the premiums in the New England 

 Fair upon honey, and all the honey that 

 he exhibited was sugar syrup stored in 

 combs. The box which I bought yester- 

 day was exactly like some which I got 

 from Dr. Searles. 



The merchant here says that he 

 bought all that Mr. Lowrey had at a 

 bargain. He calls it the best honey he 

 ever had in his store. 



Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 30, 1891. 



[Sugar syrup should never be fed to 

 the bees except to keep them from 

 starving, to stimulate breeding, or for 

 Winter stores. To let them store it in 

 sections for sale is a fraud. No honest 

 person would allow it to be done. If Mr. 

 Lowrey has inadvertently permitted 

 this, he should at once recall all that 

 unsold, and thus remedy, as far as pos- 

 sible, the evil effect of such a transac- 



tion. If he has not done it intentionally, 

 the readers of the Bee Journal would 

 be glad to hear from him. — Ed.] 



Honey-Dei Not MartetaWe, 



In some places large quantities of 

 honey-dew have been stored the past 

 season. It is possible that some of this 

 may be harmless, but that gathered from 

 some trees and plants will undoubtedly 

 be injurious to Winter stores. I should 

 be afraid to risk it, especially if wintered 

 in a cellar or other bee repository. 



It may do very well for feeding in the 

 Spring; but on no account should it be 

 put on the market, either as extracted 

 or comb-honey. It will surely ruin your 

 market if you do. 



It is safe to offer for sale no honey that 

 you would not put on the table when you 

 have company. A bee-keeper ought to 

 be a good judge of the quality of honey, 

 and he ought never to sell any that he 

 knows is not first-class, because honey is 

 bought as a luxury, not as a staple article 

 of food. People who buy a thing as a 

 luxury are willing to pay a good price 

 for it if it suits their taste, but, with 

 good sugar at 5 cents per pound, you 

 must not expect they will call a second 

 time for a low quality of honey. — Farmer 

 and Breeder. 



CoiiTention IVotices. 



i^~Tlie Michigan State Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation will meet in Grand Kapids, Mich., on 

 Thursday, Dec. 31, 1891, and Friday, Jan. 1, 

 1892, Geo. E. Hilton, Sec, Fremont, Mich. 



iW The Northwestern Bee-Keepers' Society wilJ 

 hold its annual convention at the Commercial 

 Hotel, corner of Lake and Dearborn Streets, in 

 Chicago, Ills., on Thursday and Friday, Nov. 19 

 and 20, at 9 a.m. Arrangements have been made 

 with the Hotel for back room, one bed, two persons, 

 $1.75 per day, each ; front room, $2.00 per day for 

 each person. This date occurs during the Exposi- 

 tion, when excursion rates on the railroads will be 

 one fare for the round-trip. 



W. Z. Hutchinson, sec, Flint, Mich. 



The Executive Committee have fixed the date of 

 the next session of the North American Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association, Dec. 8 to 11. at Albany. There will 

 be an informal meeting on the evening of Tuesday, 

 Dec. 8, for getting acquainted, etc. The real work 

 of the convention will commence Wednesday morn- 

 ing, and extend through two full days, ending 

 Friday morning, giving distant delegates time to get 

 home before Sunday. We want all to get there if 

 possible on Tuesday. If they have a few hours of 

 daylight it will give an opportimity to look around 

 the city, view the capitol building, etc. Reduced 

 rates have already been secured in all trunk-line 

 territory, and the same is expected over other 

 railroads. The programme is now under way. and 

 other arrangements are nearly completed. If you 

 have decided to take a vacation that will, we trust, 

 be profitable, don't fail to attend this convention. 

 P. H. Elwood, Pres., Starkville, N. Y. 



C. P. Dadant, Sec, Hamilton, Ills. 



