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cultural papers took it up : then Prof. Wiley 

 wrote what he did iu the Popular Science 

 Monthly, and it ran through the general 

 newspapers like wild lire : since then the bee 

 journals have "exposed" every case of adul- 

 teration or supposed adulteration that they 

 could hear of, and the result is that, in the 

 minds of the majority of consumers, the 

 term " extracted honey " has become synon- 

 ymous with adulteration. Continued " ex- 

 posures " are only continued proofs to the 

 public that its surmises are correct. How 

 any sane man can doubt that such a course 

 is terribly damaging to our pursuit is past 

 my comprehension. I do not advise silence 

 because of any desire to shield evil doers, 

 but if " exposure " does not stop the prac- 

 tice, and most surely does injure the pursuit, 

 it is the height of folly to continue it. 

 " But," says one, "if we don'.; do anything 

 the adulterators will ruin our business." It is 

 unnecessary to maintain a masterful inactiv- 

 ity. Several States now have a law against 

 the sale of adulterated honey not properly 

 labeled, and others can pass them. If the ex- 

 isting laws are not adequate they can be 

 changed and heavier penalties attached if 

 needed. We have a Bee-Keepers' Union 

 with its constitution so changed that its 

 money and • ower can be used for this pur- 

 pose. When the needed laws are secured, 

 then guilty parties can be prosecuted and 

 convicted by means of the Union, just as 

 successfully as bee-keepers have by it been 

 defended against unjust persecutions. 



I am aware that there would be consider- 

 able difficulty in furnishing absolute proof 

 of adulteration, and for this reason, if for 

 no other, I should favor prosecution instead 

 of exposure. In prosecution everything 

 must be pi'oven, or there is no case ; in " ex- 

 posure " there is the temptation to report 

 some suspicious circumstance "for what it 

 is worth and allow the public to draw its 

 own conclusions." Take this case of Mr. 

 Heddon's, for instance, the Union did not 

 consider that there was sufficient evidence to 

 convict. If there is not sufficient evidence to 

 warrant prosecution, there is not enough for 

 exposure. 



In closing I cannot refrain from quoting 

 a few lines from an editorial in the Michigan 

 Farmer of March 2r»th, as they express my 

 views exactly. 



" Let the war against adulteration go on 

 by all means ; the Farmer has always cham- 



pioned the cause of pure food products of 

 whatever nature, but let it be by deeds, not 

 words that create a sentiment against honey 

 that it will take years to overcome, granting 

 the adulteration is stopped." 



exxRTxoxeD. 



Making Foundation on a Press. 



In Dr. Miller's " Stray Straws " I find the 

 following : 



"Fun was poked at me for talking about 

 making foundation on a press without sheet- 

 ing. On inquiry I find that a metal press, 

 the Rietsche, has been in use for ten years, 

 the wax poured in the press without sheet- 

 ing, and that 6,00() such presses are now in 

 use. Will Review and Progressive please 

 correct ?" 



When the good Doctor was writing the Re- 

 view he did not have the Reitsche press in 

 mind. Here is what he said : 



" With the Given press there is nothing 

 except the melted wax thrown into the press 

 and tnen the wax pushed up loosely iu the 

 side walls." 



No fun was poked at the Doctor, simply 

 his error pointed out. For a man who 

 makes a specialty of "Don't knowing," 

 you ought not to feel so very bad Doctor 

 about this little slip. 



How to Find a ftueen, and How to Clip Her 

 Wines Without Her Knowing it. 



O that 1 had the wings of a queen ! 



Unless queen traps or swarm catchers are 

 used there is no more saccessful method of 

 managing swarming in a large apiary than 

 by having the queens clipped, and I have 

 never seen better directions for doing the 

 clipping than the following written by C W. 

 Dayton and published last July in Glean- 

 ings : 



" The first determination in the clipping 

 of queens is the season or time of the season. 

 When a farmer has 200 acres of grain to cut 

 with one machine he watches it closely, and 

 begins when it is a little green, and finishes 

 when it is very ripe. If he should not begin 

 until the earliest was thoroughly ripe, the 

 last would be so ' dead ripe ' that most of it 

 would shell out so as to be hardly worth the 

 harvesting. One machine is able to cut 

 about 10 acres a day. and 20 days' time will 

 extend from the beginning of the ripening 

 to the over-ripeness of grain. It is no truer 

 of grain than of clipping of queens at the 



