. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April 13, 190S. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 277 justice to an honest industry; but witli the testimony before him, in a field with which he was not entirely familiar, he no doubt fell war- ranted in concluding that it was a more or less common thintr to find on the market that which was sold for coml> honey that was nti gen- uine comb honey at all. Let him do a little investigating on his own account. Let him make the eflort to find a single specimen of comb honey that is not genuine, no matter whether "in the frame" or not—waive that—it ou
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April 13, 190S. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 277 justice to an honest industry; but witli the testimony before him, in a field with which he was not entirely familiar, he no doubt fell war- ranted in concluding that it was a more or less common thintr to find on the market that which was sold for coml> honey that was nti gen- uine comb honey at all. Let him do a little investigating on his own account. Let him make the eflort to find a single specimen of comb honey that is not genuine, no matter whether "in the frame" or not—waive that—it ought not to be so very hard for him to secure it if such a thing is to be found at all; and when he has concluded his search he v^ill no doubt be ready to say, " Comb honey, whether sold in the frame or out of the frame, is uniformly pure in this ; If, however, he should succeed in finding a bogus article of comb honey, let him send a sample to this office, and he may rest assured there will be no blink- ing of the truth, but the facts will be stated in all their glaring un- pleasantness. Apiarian Representation In Australia Increase of colonies increases a man's voting power in the New South Wales Bee-Farmers' Association, according to the Australian Bee-Bulletin. If he has only one colony he has one vote, and the same if he has 50 colonies, but each additional 50 colonies after the first 50 gives him an additional vote. With 100 colonies he has 2 votes; with 500,10 votes; and with 1000, 20 ITIiscclloneous TUws > 3 terns '^ =/ A Bee-Department that Means Something.—Agricul- tural papers are more or less in the habit of publishing in what pur- ports to be a bee-department, items containing errors that even a novice in bee-keeping instantly detects, raising the question. It bees are of enough importance to demand attention, are they not of enough importance to have some one of practical knowledge about bees to have a supervising care over what i
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