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THOS. G.NEWMAN fe^SON, 



EDITOR. 



mniV. An£,22,1888, No, 34, 



Ediwrml Buzzi 



Oh : Conatatency ! great law 



That holds vast nature's boundless realm 



Fast in thy clutches. Matchless boon ! 



As man goes from thy law to artifice. 



Thou wilt stand immovable, the wrong disclose. 



Until finding his mistake, he turns again 



Into God's eternal law. T. S. 



September is a busy month for bee- 

 keepers, farmers and others. The Fairs 

 keep them very busy showing their pro- 

 ducts. We hope there will be enough honey 

 produced to make a good exhibit, if no 

 more. The crop is very scarce generally. 



Xlie W^eatlier in Europe, says the 

 L'Apiculteur, of Paris, during July was 

 very wet and cold. Tlie bees have kept 

 their colonies strong, but have gathered 

 only a little honey. The so-called "foul 

 brood " is troublesome there also, and in 

 France they are passing laws to prevent the 

 contagion spreading. 



To Go by Wel'ault,— The Michigan 

 FaTTner of last week intends the following 

 paragraph for a hint to stir up tlie bee-keep- 

 ers to a sense of their duty in joining the 

 Union, but the last line needs comment : 



Out of a total of 300,000 bee-keepers in 

 the United States, less than 300 have be- 

 come members of the Bee-Keepers' Union, 

 Unless more funds are forthcoming, the 

 Clark case at Arkadelphia, which has al- 

 ready cost the Union Sl'2.^, and is to come up 

 for a new trial, will have to go by default. 



No! No! It could not go by default. 

 It was tried, and victory won by the Union! 

 Will the Micliigan Farmer please make a 

 note of that fact. It is true that every one 

 of the 300,000 bee-keepers ought to be mem- 

 bers of the Union, and then it would be a 

 power in the land— a mountain of strength 

 which would protect the pursuit everywhere. 



Another •• Pleasantry."— Mr. P. 



M. I'uhl, of Mauniee, 0., thus describes 

 another traveling /nrud, who is perpetrat- 

 ing another i«l/j/ peddler's "pleasantry"— 

 charging that the editor of the Amekican 

 Bee Jouknal is making, by a copy-righted 

 receipt, so-called liquid honey, and that he 

 is commissioned to sell the same all through 

 the country. He avers that we are making 

 comb honey, and fill the combs with the 

 fraudulent stuff for which he offers to sell 

 the receipt for '2.5 cents. Now let us pre- 

 sent the letter of friend Puhl : 



It is getting to be unpopular in this 

 locality to keep bees. By the fruit growers 

 such are despised more than saloon-keep- 

 ers, and the great majority of people be- 

 lieve that you, Mr, Editor, adulterate the 

 honey. Even while I am writing this a 

 peddler comes in selling a receipt for mak- 

 ing genuine honey, and telling of you, Mr. 

 Newman, using it to make comb honey. 

 Now please do not get as mad as I did, for I 

 took the fellow by the collar and out he 

 went, I closed my business and followed 

 him around town, and whenever he offered 

 to sell anything, I said this man is a liar 

 and a fraud. I succeeded In driving him 

 out of town without making a sale; before he 

 came here he was in a town across the river, 

 and sold a good many receipts at 25 rents 

 each. Now he has gone to Toledo, From 

 the mischief he has dune here alone, I shall 

 be obliged to fight constantly, to say noth- 

 ing about the fruit growers, and we have 

 several of the bull-headed kind here, who 

 will not read or try to find where the trouble 

 is, or let any one else show them. In the 

 the face of this, does it not look a little dis- 

 couraging, with no honey to sweeten one's 

 sugartoolh with ? 1 told this scoundrel of 

 Mr, Root's offer. I offered to go to the 

 telegraph office and telegraph to you and Mr, 

 Root to prove to him that he was wrong. It 

 was all to no purpose. I got the last 

 American Bee Journal and read to him 

 Wilt-y's explanation ; and he laughed at it ! 

 Now how can bee-keepers manage to show 

 that they are not humbugs and malicious de- 

 stroyers of other people's fruit ? The honey 

 receipt is copy-righted, at least so marked. 



That scoundrel ought to be sent to the 

 State's Prison. We have devoted a life- 

 time to the exposure of fraud, adulteration, 

 etc., and point to our record with pride, be- 

 cause of its spotlessness. Now for such a 

 villain to try to ro/) us of it, in this mean 

 way, is diabolical ! Among those who 

 know us, he could not do us any harm, but 

 he operates among those unacquainted with 

 bee-keeping, and hence is the more damag- 

 ing to the producers of pure honey. 



of adulteration in any. Those without pol- 

 len appeared to be otherwise pure. He 

 took a few specimens to a meeting of the 

 society, and incidentally mentioned the 

 facts recited. A reporter of a daily pajier 

 was present and heard his remarks. Some 

 members intorinally examined specimens, 

 but expressed no unfavorable opinion of 

 them. That was all there was to it. 



The next day a daily paper had an article 

 which purported to be an account of the 

 investigation of the subject of honey by the 

 society. The editor of this department 

 never saw the report, never wrote anything 

 concerning the alleged microscopic exami- 

 nation of honey, but the editor of another 

 department of the Journal read it, and 

 deeming it an item in which honey pro- 

 ducers would be interested, he reduced it to 

 a short paragraph, hauded it to the printer, 

 and it was put in type without this editor's 

 knowledge. But we feel very sure the 

 writer never thought of doing injustice to 

 honey producers. No one suspects them of 

 adulterating honey. They are universally 

 credited with sending pure honey to market, 

 and whatever adulteration may occur is on 

 the part of the eity or town people for the 

 gain there is in it. 



The real facts now developed, show how 

 imaginative a reporter may be, and further 

 show that an expert microseopist has been 

 unable to detect an evidence of adultera- 

 tion in any one of twenty specimens of 

 honey indiscriminately collected in St. 

 Louis, all of which is to the credit of honey 

 producers, and of retail dealers in St. Louis, 

 We are gratified at so pleasant an outcome 

 to the matter which had its origin in a 

 grievous misstatement of facts on the part 

 of a reporter. 



The Farm, Field and Stockmnn also pub- 

 lishes this correction— but witliout com- 

 ment. These sensational reporters are being 

 found and exposed. 



Just look at the facts in the case: A 

 "druggist " examined a score of samples of 

 hoaey, but did nut find any adulterated! 

 This he slated at a meeting of microscopists. 

 The sensation-scribbler reported that the 

 St, Louis Society of Microscopists examined 

 several hundreds of samples, and found the 

 majority of them adulterated ! Could 

 lying be more premeditated and pernicious? 



XaUfs it Bacli.— On page 500 we re- 

 ferred to an item in the Farm. Field and 

 St(;c/cm(Ui, which stated that the St. Louis 

 Society of Microscopists had examined sev- 

 eral hundreds of samples of honey, and 

 found the majority of them adulterated. 

 We well knew that it was not true, and 

 said so. The Journal of Agriculture, 

 which was fooled by the item it published, 

 lias investigated the matter, and this is 

 what it says in its issue for Aug. 2, 1888 : 



The facts are as follows : John C, Falk, 

 a practical drugaist and active member of 

 the St. Louis Microscopic Society, examined 

 about a score of specimens of honey ob- 

 tained from dealers in St, Louis, He found 

 pollen in some, and detected its absence in 

 others, but he did not discover an evidence 



To Save I.,osse!« we offer a word of 

 caution. The crop of honey, be it ever so 

 small, will soon be put upon the market, 

 which is everywhere empty and ready to 

 receive it. The caution we want to give is 

 this : Do not sell honey to any person of 

 whose financial standing you are not 

 posted, unless you get cash in advance ; no 

 matter what are the promises or flattering 

 offers. Either know that the party offering 

 to buy it, is either perfectly good for ten 

 times the amount, or pays you cash down. 

 Last year there were several swindlers 

 trying to get honey without paying for it. 

 Hence this advice. 



Xbe Coming State Fair at 

 Elmira. N. Y., Sept. 17 to 22, promises 

 to be among the largest and best ever held 

 in the State, Intended exhibitors shou'd 

 bear in mind that the closing date for en- 

 tries is Aug. IS, and not get left. Secretary 

 Woodward informs us that all entries 

 mailed ou that date will be accepted, but 

 why wait until the lastday ? The railroads 

 will return all exhibits free of freight. 



