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XIIOMAS G. !%EW:MAN, 



EDITOR. 



VoiniV. OcUil888, Nc,43. 



There's al>vay!< si River to rri>ss, 



Always au t Ifoit to make, 

 If there's anythinf» good to win, 



Any rich prize to take ; 

 Yonder's the fruit we crave. 



Yonder tlie charming scene ; 

 But deep and wide, with a troubled tide, 



Is the river that lies between. 



'%\'liat a ^Voman Can I)o.— Mrs. J. 



N. Heater, of Columbus, Nebr., is one of 

 the best-known exhibitors of Honey and 

 Bee-Snpplies in America. Speaking of her 

 exhibit at the Sta(e Fair at Lincoln, the 

 Columbus Journal remarks thus : "Aside 

 from its newspapers, mills and banks, there 

 is probably no single business represented 

 in Columbus that belter advertises the city 

 than the business transacted by Mrs. J. N. 

 Heater." And of her attractive exhibit at 

 the State Fair, the Lincoln Journal says : 



Each succeeding year the apiary depart- 

 ment finds Mrs. Heater, of Columbus, pres- 

 ent with a large showing of eoiub and ex- 

 tracted honey, wax, implements, and bee- 

 keepers' supplies. 



The exhibit is in the form of a large 

 pyramid of jars of honey arranged around 

 an ornamented velvet back-ground, bearing 

 the name and residence of the exhibitor. 



This exhibit shows to advantage what 

 well-directed intelligent study and years of 

 experience can do in this direction, and all 

 who visit the State Fair should not fail to 

 visit Apiary Hall and inspect this exhibi- 

 tion. 



Good exhibits of bees, honey and beeswax 

 at Fairs, will do more to educate the people, 

 and help the sale of honey than anything 

 else. The apiarian exhibit at Columbus, 

 Oliio, Centeunial was a greater attraction 

 than almost any other display. Realizing 

 this fact, the managers of the Fair put up a 

 building esi)ecially for it this year, and it 

 pays well. 



A Friend of tlie Bees.— The Wash- 

 ington, D. C, Sddof Oct. 8, 1888, contains 

 the following announcement : 



Mr. J. P. Miller visited the Agricultural 

 Department today to secure the co-opera- 

 tion of the Commissioner of Agriculture in 

 obtaining legislation to protect the public 

 and the bee-keepers against spurious honey. 

 As credentials, Mr. ililler brought an inter- 

 esting colony of Italian bees with him in a 

 case, and placed them on exhibition in the 

 Museum " Zoo." 



Mr. Miller stated to a Star reporter that 

 what the bee-keepers want is a law similar 

 to the oleomargarine law, requiring manu- 

 facturers of artiBeial honey to stamp their 

 wares, so that the public will not i>e de- 

 ceived in purchasing it. The artificial 

 honey, he said, is composed of three fourths 

 of glucose and one-fourth of real honey. 

 This, he said, was not injurious, but he did 

 not think it ought to be sold as real honey. 

 The bee-keepers, he said, did not fear the 

 competition of the artificial product. What 

 they did fear was that the adulterated arti- 

 cle would make people suspicious of all 

 honey. 



The reporter for the Star confounds the 

 terms "artificial" and adulterated— the 

 stuff he describes as one-fourth of honey 

 and three-fourths glucose is the ordinary 

 adulterated article, and it should not be 

 allowed to be sold without being labeled 

 "glucose honey," as suggested by Mr. 

 Miller. 



But now, when liquid honey is sold for 

 about the same price as the best grade of 

 glucose, there is but little danger of any 

 one taking the trouble to adulterate it, 

 when it will not pay them handsomely to do 

 so. Those who sophisticate, do so for 

 profit, not for the fun of doing so. 



The pursuit of bee-keeping is to-day suf- 

 fering far more from the effects of the lying 

 done by Wiley, Evans & Co., than it is 

 from adulteration. These fellows adulter- 

 ate the truth and lie about the product ; and 

 in that way cause public distrust, and sus- 

 picions concerning all the honey produced— 

 whether in or out of the comb ! 



Arkadelpliia Kee-Snit.— Concern- 

 ing this lawsuit the Bee-Keepers' Ouide has 

 the following letter from the present Mayor 

 of the city of Arkadelphia, dated Sept. 38, 

 1888, which brands the whole thing as a 

 "persecution," and says that it was " more 

 personal malice than anything else :" 



- Deak Sir :— In reply to yours of the 35th 

 inst., and referring to the Z. A. Clark bee- 

 case, I would state that the case came up 

 for trial at the last term of the Circuit Court. 

 The attorney for Mr. Clark waived a jury 

 trial, but submitted the case to the Judge 

 on certain points of law questioning the 

 right of the city authorities to declare bees 

 as a nuisance, per sc. Judge Hearn, of our 

 Circuit Court, took the matter under advise- 

 ment, and on the following week rendered 

 his decision in favor ot Mr. Clark. 



The city attorney has taken an appeal to 

 the Supreme Court of the State, which, 1 

 think, will affirtn the decision of the Circuit 

 Court, as Judge Hearn supported all the 

 points of law offered by the Hon. Sam 

 Williams, who is Mr. Clark's attorney (or 

 rather represented the Bee-Keepers' Union 

 in this case), and was determined that he 

 would give an opinion that would hokl. 



My sympathies had beeu with Mr. Clark, 

 and I was one.ot his bondsmen on the ap- 



peal. His persecution was the work of my 

 predecessor in ollice, and 1 ilunight it more 

 personal malice than anything else. 



1 state this to free myself from any odium 

 attachable to this case. Mr. Clark's friends 

 used my name and elected me as Mayor as a 

 rebuke to the party that persecuted him. 

 Yours truly, L. J. Weber. 



We are expecting to hear the result of the 

 appeal every day, and shall give it to our 

 readersat the earliest possible moment. In 

 the above letter Mayor Weber says he thinks 

 the Supreme Court " will affirm the decision 

 of the Circuit Court," and declare that the 

 pursuit of bee-keeping is no nuisance. 



Ensriisli Artificial Honey.— One 

 of our exchanges, while enumerating a 

 number of artificial things, says that a man 

 by the name of Lyie has taken out a patent 

 in England (Patent No. 8,86-S) for making 

 " artificial honey." This is what he says 

 about it : 



C. Lyle patented a mixture of grape 

 sugar, fruit sugar and glucose (dextrose, 

 levuloseand glucose), with the addition of 

 fruit essences, and thinks this compound is 

 equal to any natural honey. 



It certainly is not less palatable than the 

 honey analyzed at the controlling station at 

 Beilin, Germany, which had been imported 

 from Holland, and was found to be made up 

 of glucose and oleomargarine. 



The proof ot the letter is found in Mit- 

 theil, a. d. Chem. Tech. Versuchsanstalt in 

 Berlin, 1886, page U. The proof of the 

 former can be found in the English Patent 

 Office files for 1885. 



While we have no desire to injure the 

 feelings of our English brethren, or make 

 an offset for the "fun" they have been 

 " poking " at Americans about " adulterat- 

 ing bee-farms" in this country (which, 

 however, exist only in imagination) we 

 would like to have them look this matter 

 up, and tell us what there is in it. We es- 

 pecially commend it to the consideration of 

 our friends and co laborers, Mr. Thomas W. 

 Cowan, editor of tlie British Bee Journal, 

 and Herr Vogel, editor of the Blenen 

 Zcitung. Let us hear from these gentlemen 

 about these dextrose-levulose-glucose-oleo- 

 margarine combinations ! Are they any 

 more tangible than the adulterating bee- 

 farms ? Let the light shine upon them ! ! 



Coninienling' upon an item on page 

 .595, on the best place to keep comb honey, 

 Mr. H. M. Moyer, of Hill Church, Pa., says: 

 " Ventilation is as important as heat. If I 

 put comb honey in a close room, with tem- 

 perature at 80° to 85°, and no ventilation, it 

 will sweat ; but if I give it plenty of air, it 

 will be all right." The "point is well 

 taken "—let it be ventilated. 



Tlie Pamitlilei Report of the Colum- 

 bus Convention is now issued, and copies 

 have been sent to each member, as well as 

 to the (^olleues, Agricultural and Horticul- 

 tural Siicictles and periodicals devoted to 

 the industry. Copies can be obtained at 

 thisdflice, by mail, postpaid, for 35 cents. 

 This pamphlet contains the new bee-songs 

 and words, as well as a portrait of the 

 President of the Association. 



