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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



either good or safe. I fully believe that we 

 were all better off if fraudulent or even secret 

 compounds like patent medicines were all 

 hurled into the bottomless pit, which would 

 be in a very fit receptacle for them. Such 

 stuff is not safe; its manufacture is not 

 right; its sale is iniquitous. I speak strongly 

 but I feel that every word is the truth. 



Again, I do not l)elieve we can gain by 

 smothering the truth or hiding evil. So 

 many say, don't talk about it, it will hurt 

 sales. Sin never takes rebuke kindly, but 

 the rebuke is good nevertheless. To hide 

 evil practices that we know exist and are in- 

 jurious to society, is really cowardly and 

 wicked. The better way as it seems to me, 

 is to face the evil, bring it to the light and 

 squelch it. 



But is it bad policy? In the highest sense, 

 do ng right is never bad policy, and decry- 

 ing fraud is right. But, again, as long as 

 such manufacturing is carried on people 

 will know it; many will go without honey 

 rather than risk the purchase of, they know 

 not what. I have a case in point. A wealthy 

 gentleman in Detroit sends to me each year 

 for his extracted honey. He says he wishes 

 to know what he is eating. Thus many re- 

 fuse honey because of this fact. I say fact 

 for it is a fact, and there is no need to dis- 

 guise it. Others will blazon forth the fact 

 even if bee-keepers open not their mouths. 



Is it not then wiser to acknowledge the 

 evil and try to cure it; or else counteract its 

 effects? I believe this to be our wisest 

 course. 



THE PBOOEDUBE. 



I believe that we should all publish far 

 and wide that honey is adulterated, but 

 never by bee-keepers. They can not afford 

 to do it It is never policy for a bee-keeper 

 to practice such fraud, never safe or profit- 

 able. Thus let us spread the information 

 that honey stamped with the name and local- 

 ity of the producer is sure to be pure. Such 

 knowledge will help not hinder our sales. 

 Again if we have not laws against such 

 adulteration and fi-aud — Michigan has a 

 good law — let us have them. Let us see that 

 any man who sells any product under a 

 wrong name is rendering himself liable to 

 fine and imprisonment. If he stamps his 

 product "glucose and honey" or "manufac- 

 tured honey," no one will be wronged, and 

 he is welcome to his profits. Then having a 

 good law, let us set the law to work, through 

 the Union to stop the nefarious business. 



We had a good chance in Detroit last win- 

 ter. I would have the Union employ a good 

 lawyer and have the m atter pushed to the 

 bitter end. A few convictions would not 

 only stop the frauds but would educate the 

 people to the truth that only pure honey 

 could be sold as such. The Union through 

 its able manager has done right royal ser- 

 vice already. There is here a grand oppor- 

 tunity to win even brighter laurels, and to 

 confer, as I believe, a greater benefit upon 

 the bee-keeping industry. 

 Agbioultueal Col., Michigan, Apr. 22, 1891. 



The Part That Odor Plays in Q,aeen Intro- 

 duction. The Manum Hive. 



J. H. LABBABEE. 



|HE removal of one queen and the in- 

 troduction of another to a colony of 

 bees is one of the most delicate opera- 

 tions of the apiary. Its success all depends 

 on the condition of the bees and the action 

 and scent of the queen. That the bees dis- 

 tinguish their queen by the sense of smell 

 there is no doubt. That the bees notice any 

 unusual actions on the part of the queen and 

 that the queen is not slow to observe the 

 same in the bees, has been observed by 

 many. 



I think that perhaps I can best state my 

 belief on the subject of queen introduction 

 by giving the plan I have many times used 

 successfully. 



I remove the old queen (or rather the for- 

 mer queen) and cage her in a small, round, 

 wire cloth cage, such as is described in the 

 editor's leader, and carry her to the honey 

 house, run her out and run in the queen to 

 be introduced. The mouth of the cage I 

 close with a cork or with wax and hang it 

 between two combs near the brood and on 

 the honey. In 24 to 48 hours I take off the 

 cover carefully and, removing th§ stopper, 

 insert a chunk of soft candy in the mouth 

 of the cage and close the hive. Of course if 

 the bees are clustered around the cage and 

 are smoked away with difficulty I delay the 

 candy for another day, but this is seldom 

 necessary. The only thing about this differ- 

 ing from the common method is m placing 

 the ne . queen in a cage scented by the for- 

 mer queen. 



Perhaps this looks to you like a small 

 point but I believe it is one worth consider- 

 ing. The extremely delicate scent of the 



