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of lime because it is used in so many differ- 

 ent ways aud by difl'ereut manufacturers. 

 This commercial glucoso of the present age 

 is not glucose at all but just an imitation. 

 Even glucose itself is imposed upon by adul- 

 teration. Out of hundreds I have question- 

 ed since this matter came up not one had 

 ever knowingly seen or tasted glucose. 

 Still, I can go into the candy, confectionery, 

 cracker, breweries aud preserving establish- 

 ments and find barrels, barrels and barrels 

 just opened up and the contents being re- 

 moved and used in the different manufac- 

 tured articles. I saw fourOOO pound barrels 

 open and being scooped from in one candy 

 establishment at one time. I have mixed 

 half honey and half glucose so that the glu- 

 cose taste was plainer than broad day light 

 and still I have had persons professing to 

 know sage honey to choose the mixture as 

 pure honey in preference to pure sage. Yet 

 I do kuow the mixture would not "wear" 

 like the pure honey. 



There was not so much in changing my 

 punctuations, but the heading of my article 

 was entirely changed by the editor, which 

 entirely chang(3d the aspect of my article. I 

 wished to join all the bee-keepers in the land 

 to run down and stamp out forever the 

 gigantic glucose fraud but the heading 

 under which it appeared made it look as 

 if I were out of sorts at every body, bee- 

 keepers included. Instead of us all joining 

 for brotherly preservation, all the writers 

 made it a point to dive into me and destroy 

 me, omitting to take ui) and carry out the 

 truthfulness of any of the weighty subjects 

 my article contained. My article was dis- 

 positioned to point out the foes to our indus- 

 try. I did not dream of bee-keepers fight- 

 ing against one another as has been done. 

 In the self same paragraph with my " state- 

 ment " there is language which very clear- 

 ly shows that my estimate did not apply 

 to the honey of lt<9.5. Yet that is the year 

 it has been saddled upon ; but, besides a 

 very strong grit, it requires all the strength 

 and agility of the operator to keep the 

 truth down. My original article shows for 

 itself, and very plainly too, with its own 

 heading '• Will bee-keeptrs never organize ! " 



Now to close I would say that what I have 

 learned about glucose has cost me a large 

 amount of time and over $100 in cash, and 

 I am not disposed to give it gratis to be 

 trifled with or misconstrued. It will keep. 

 If I kuow of barrels of glucose just behind 



a partition it is not a matter of life and 

 death that I tell it to my brother bee-keep- 

 ers. I will never quarrel with a man because 

 he is bound to believe he is not eating glu- 

 cose when 1 know he is, because if he did 

 know about it he might choose to keep on 

 eating just the same. 

 Florence, Calif. Mar. H, 1896. 



[ Only an editor knows of the dilKculty of 

 always putting exactly the proper heading 

 or title over an article. It is self-evident 

 that the title to an article should show in 

 the fewest words possible the subject of the 

 article. It should be a true index to its char- 

 acter. This seems the simplest of simple 

 matters, and so it is, but to put it into prac- 

 tice often requires a lot of thinking. As a 

 rule, correspondents do not put any head 

 on their articles. Even if they do, they are 

 often changed. I do not think that an 

 editor does this because he thinks that he is 

 any smarter than his correspondents, but 

 practice makes perfect, even in such a mat- 

 ter as writing headings for articles. To be 

 sure, editor„ sometimes make mistakes. 

 Then, again, an article often strikes one man 

 differently than it does another. What seems 

 the most important point to the writer may 

 seem insignificant to the reader. In this 

 case it seems that friend Dayton had seen 

 the need of organization among bee-keepers 

 for the purpose of fighting glocose, and he 

 brought out the glucose so strong that, to 

 the editor of Gleanings, it seemed the most 

 important thing in the article. 



I know exactly how it feels to have the 

 heading of your article changed to some- 

 thing else that you don't think as good as 

 the title that you have given it. Every 

 mother likes to name her own baby. When 

 I wrote that article for the Cosmopolitan, I 

 gave much thought to the clioice of a title. 

 Name after name was considered aud laid 

 aside. Finally, I chose " Modern Bee Cul- 

 ture. " In that article I tried to live up to 

 the title I had chosen — to describe modern 

 bee culture. After the editor came to read 

 it, it is evident that he thought modern bee 

 culture was a very charming occupation, so 

 he changed the title to " The Pleasant ( »ccu- 

 pation of Tending Bees. " When the proof 

 came I protested strongly, and gave my 

 reasons, against the change, but it did not 

 avail me anything. 



I am well satisfied that both my friend 

 Root aud my friend Dayton had the best 



