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procure the distiller the exhibitor had gone, 

 but he had left the distiller he had in use ou 

 exhibition with a friend in the Building who 

 lived in the city, and I succeeded after a 

 good deal of ettort in getting it. I have 

 not tested or used it since I came home not 

 having needed it : but as I saw it in opera- 

 tion I have no doubt as to its utility. There 

 are different sizes at differeut prices — my 

 own at ifl'J.OO which is said to have a capa- 

 city of about one gallon per hour. The 

 reader may, I presume, get circulars or any 

 other information he may wish concerning 

 them by addressing the proprietor, Dr. Nel- 

 son Huuting, l.")5 Hamilton St., Albany, N. 

 Y. It is called "The Huuting Automatic 

 Distiller. " 



Selby, Ont. May 20, 18;»(). 



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The "Pure Honey Bill" as Passed Amounts 

 to Nothing. 

 B. m'knight. 



N a late issue of 

 the Review Mr. 

 Hasty noted the 

 fact that when the 

 C. B. J. announ- 

 ced the passage of 

 what it calls a 

 "pure honey bill" 

 ihr )Ugh the Hoi s ^ 

 of Commons, the 

 Editor admitted 

 that the draft as 

 submitted to its 

 promoters had been some what modified, 

 but he failed to imform his readers what 

 changes were made in it. The noisy, crow- 

 ing, bantling was paraded to the world so 

 long as it was permitted to wear the artifi- 

 cial weapons of defence, strapped to its 

 heels by S. T. Pettit and Co. but since the 

 Commons of Canada stripped it o^ its 

 formidable spurs, it hasnot been exhibited. 

 After so much bluster and waste of money, 

 they are evidently disappointed if not dis- 

 gusted, because of the result. The plain 

 fact is, that absolutely nothing has been se- 

 cured, that was not previously eujoyed; what 

 they got is just a " put off. " that " penalty 

 that ( according to Mr. Pettit ) was to make 

 people shake in their shoes " is nowhere to 

 be found in the amendment as passed. The 

 8um and substance of this amendment con- 



sists in the fact that honey is now named as 

 coming under the provisions of the old act 

 respecting the adulteration of foods — aplace 

 it always occupied though in common with 

 other foods not specially named. 



P. S. I enclose you a copy of the amend- 

 ment as finally passed. 



Owen Sound. Ont. May 21, WM\. 



[ Here is the act as finally passed. A sim- 

 ple perusal will ahow that Mr. McKuight is 

 correct. — Ed. Review.] 



" An Act further to amend the Act respect- 

 ing the Adulteration of Food, Drugs and 

 Agricultural Fertilizers. 



Her Majesty, by and with the advice and con- 

 sent of the Senate and House of Commons of 

 C'anada. enacts as follows: — 



1. The Adulteration Act, chapter one hundred 

 and seven of tlie Revised Statutes, is hereby 

 amended by adding tlie following seition there- 

 to immediately after section twenty-one:— 



21 '■ A. The feeding to bees of sugar, glucose or 

 any otlier sweet substance other than such as 

 bees gatlier from natural sources with the intent 

 that such substances shall be u-<ed by bees in the 

 making of uoney, or the exposing of any such 

 subsiance with said intent, shall be and be 

 deemed a wilful adulteration of honey within 

 the meaning of this Act ; and no honey made 

 by bees in whole or in part from any of such 

 substances, and no imitation of houey, or sugar 

 honey, so called, or other substitute for honey 

 shall be manufactured or produced for sale, or 

 sold or ofiered for sale in Canada: Provided that 

 this section sJall not be interpreted or constru- 

 ed to prevent the giving of sugar in any form to 

 bees to be consumed by them as food. " 



Notes From Foreign Bee Journals. 



F. L. THOMPSON. 



Bienen-Vatek. — A. E. Lux has observed 

 that tlie liuinhle-bee spreads a feast for the 

 honey-bee, in several varieties of flowers, 

 by gnawing the base of the corolla. 



Koloman Soeter has complied with im- 

 mense diligence, in the Hungarian language, 

 a work based on all accessible apicultnral 

 writing!', entitled " A mehes vilaga " ( The 

 Bee and its World. ) The first of the three 

 volumes has just appeared, published by 

 the Slebenbuerger Bee-Keepers' Association. 



The Diet of Meeklenburg ( Germany ) has 

 issued a decree that foul-broody colonies 

 shall be destroyed. But the owners receive 

 three-fourths of the value of the sulphured 

 colonies. 



The Australian Bee - Bulletin. — Dr. 

 Schiemenz, of Germany, an authority on 

 bee anatomy, found bacilli in astonishing 

 quantity in the chyle, intestines and rectum 

 of workers affected with paralysis sent him 

 by W, Abram. The tissues were in a great 



