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age lays him liable to arrest and pro- 

 secution, you will find that the men who 

 have been counterfeiting honey hereto- 

 fore will not want Uncle Sam to handle 

 them, because he does it without gloves. 

 I remember, a good many years ago, I 

 think in 1871 or 1872, at the Michigan 

 State bee-keepers' convention, a Mr. 

 Perrine was at that convention and said 

 that a great deal of honey was now be- 

 ing prepared and made salable by getting 

 the bees' comb honey and putting it into 

 a jar and then filling it up. He said it 

 was not always honey. In your agri- 

 cultural papers and in your country 

 papers say the sale of bogus honey is 

 shut down on by Uncle Sam, that it is 

 more than any man can do to put an 

 impure preparation on the market and 

 label it honey. 



Mr. Taylor — What was the fact last 

 year, Mr. Arnd, in regard to the crop of 

 honey? Wasn't it all sold? 



Mr. Arnd — Of course I don't know; 

 but I think the honey was pretty much 

 all sold. 



Mr. Taylor — You understand it was 

 pretty well cleared up before the pres- 

 ent crop came on? 



Mr. Arnd — I think so. Mr. Burnett 

 could tell you more. 



Mr. Taylor — How about this year? 

 Will it be cleared up? 



Mr. Arnd — I think so. I am not sure. 



Mr. Taylor — How can the law help 

 you if you sell it all any way? 



Mr. Arnd — I don't handle all the 

 honey there is. 



Mr. Taylor — I am talking about the 

 people who deal in honey. You are 

 talking for the lot. 



Mir. Arnd — I am talking of my own 

 orders. If my orders come in faster 

 this year than last I will sell more honey. 

 Another thing, too, when orders come 

 to you without your solicitation it shows 

 it is being helped along. 



Mr. Abbott — I want to suggest that 

 the law could not do anything, for it 

 is not in force until the first of January, 

 and, besides, it has no relation to any 

 honey except that which enters into in- 

 terstate commerce. There is no pure 

 food law in Missouri or in Kansas. I 

 believe but few States have a pure food 

 law corresponding with the National 

 law, and you can adulterate all you 

 please in the other States, provided yon 

 never send it out of them. Illinois has 

 one, and it is the Illinois State law that 

 is operating here, and every State in 



the Union ought to have one like the 

 National law. Let us keep that in mind, 

 and go home and besiege our legisla- 

 tures, if we want it to benefit us, to 

 make a law in accordance with the Na- 

 tional law. 



Dr. Miller — We can vote on it. 



Pres. York— All who think the Na- 

 tional law will be a benefit, raise your 

 hands. All who think it is not a bene- 

 fit raise your hands. It seems to be all 

 one way; those who voted, any way. 

 Practically all think the law will help. 

 The law is not in effect yet, and prob- 

 ably will be amended if there are any 

 weak points in it, after a while. 



Remedy for Bee-Paralysis. 



"What remedy, if any, have we for 

 the disease known as bee-paralysis?" 



Mr. Taylor — In my experience, a sim- 

 ple change of queens is all that is nec- 

 essary. 



Mr. Whitney — I asked that question. 

 I had a colony of bees in June that de- 

 veloped what I supposed to be bee- 

 paralysis; that is, they exhibited all the 

 symptoms such as I have read about in 

 the bee-papers; it was growing worse 

 rapidly for about a week, and I thought 

 it was being qommunicated to an ad- 

 joining colony, from the appearance of 

 bees on the alighting-board. I got some 

 sulphur and decided to experiment a lit- 

 tle, even if I killed a colony of bees. 

 I sprinkled sulphur all over the alighting- 

 board, all over the bees, on the top- 

 bars of the frames of both hives, and 

 in 2 or 3 days I gave them another dose ; 

 inside of 6 or 8 days there was not a 

 bit of the disease left. I did not 

 know but what I had discovered some- 

 thing. 



Dr. Miller — I have had paralysis 

 among my bees; I painted my shop red 

 and the disease disappeared. I do not 

 know that there is any other disease, 

 unless it be the disease of bee-stings, 

 that has had so many remedies as bee- 

 paralysis. One man says he has done 

 so and so, and the disease disappeared. 

 In this part of the country, as far north 

 as this, I think it will generally disap- 

 pear of itself, no matter what you do, 

 or don't, do; and I doubt -very much 

 whether anything in the way of medica- 

 tion or treatment will do any good, un- 

 less it be sulphur treatment. And I 

 may say that is the only one that I 

 have known of, that has been mentioned, 

 that a number of people have not men- 



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