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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAU 



Sugar, Honey, and the Tariff. 



To honey-producers this is a subject of 

 much interest. All want to know what 

 efifedt the new tariff on sugar will have 

 on honey. Mr. F. B. Thurber, who is 

 well-posted on such matters, wrote the 

 following letter to the New York Con- 

 vention at Albany, last month : 



After April 1 the present duties on 

 foreign sugar, which average 2X cents 

 per pound, will no longer be imposed, 

 and a bounty of 2 cents per pound will 

 be given to domestic producers of sugar, 

 which include the cane sugar of Louisi- 

 ana, the sorghum and beet sugar of the 

 Western States, and the maple sugar of 

 the East. This will undoubtedly stimu- 

 late production in these lines, increase 

 the supply of sugar, and largely decrease 

 the price, although, with low prices, 

 consumption will be larger, and there 

 will be doubtless more or less fluctuation 

 in price due to this cause. 



Just how much lower sugars will be 

 on April 1, than they are at the present 

 time, it is impossible to say ; but prob- 

 ably not less than IK cents a pound, 

 or (say) about 4^ cents a pound for 

 granulated sugar at wholesale. 



What influence the cheapness of other 

 sweets will have upon the consumption 

 of honey, it is a difficult thing to esti- 

 mate. Honey is an article distinctive in 

 character, appearance and flavor. People 

 who are accustomed to using honey, want 

 honey, and will have it, unless prices 

 should be held at an exorbitant figure ; 

 but as cheap sugar will undoubtedly 

 stimulate the production and consump- 

 tion of attractive fruit preserves in this 

 country, just as it has done in England, 

 and the manufacturers of these pre- 

 serves will undoubtedly continue to ad- 

 vertise and push them, it will have some 

 influence on the consumption of honey. 



I would advise a continuance of the 

 same intelligent study of the business 

 that bee-keepers have given it in the 

 past. I know of no line of business that 

 has received more careful or studious 

 attention than has your business, during 

 the past few years. Every suggestion 

 made by distributors of your product, 

 tending to make it more attractive and 

 convenient for consumers, has been met, 

 and the little busy bee has been educated 

 to work in a form calculated to extend 

 the consumption of its product. 



F. B. Thuebee. 



The report of the proceedings of the 

 first session may be found on page 222, 



and the rest of the report will follow as 

 soon as received from the Secretary. 



The Salvation Army has caught the 

 bee-fever. Its late meeting in Chicago 

 was* thus reported in the Tribune : 



Mr. Booth's speech was a warm one, 

 and at its conclusion the army burst out 

 with; " W^e shall win America over." 

 Capt. Kantahella, the long-haired con- 

 vert from Ceylon, was next introduced. 

 He sang a song. 



Lord Ranta Pala, the laughing little 

 Buddhist ex-priest, gave his experience, 

 and he sang a hymn he used to know in 

 Ceylon. "The frogs living on the pond 

 do not know the beauties of the lilies on 

 the banks, but the tees come from the 

 far jungle to rest upon their petals." 



" I used to be a frog," said Lord Ranta 

 Pala, "But now I am converted into a 

 bee, a hallelujah lioney-hee.'" 



" You know the cocoanut," said his 

 lordship, " it is black outside and creamy 

 white within. I am a hallelujah-cocoa- 

 nut. I want to ask you a question : how 

 many of you are white inside ?" 



" Amen," said the army, and the meet- 

 ing closed with a volley. 



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ConTention I^otices. 



^aW The Convention of the Eastern Iowa Bee- 

 Keepers, wiH be held in the Dobson Town Clock 

 Building, at Maquoketa, Iowa. Feb. 11, 12. 



Frank Covehdale, bee, Welton, Iowa. 



S^" The 8th semi-annual meeting of the Susque- 

 hanna County Bee-Keepers' Association will be held 

 at Montrose, Pa., on Thursday. May 7, 1891. 



H. M. Seeley, Sec, Harford, Pa. 



Supply Dealers desiring to sell our 

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