Wm. H. Root, Port Byron, N. Y.
Tell your wife that healthy, wholesome hobbies are always productive of good, and that we shall always strive to have Gleanings teach none other.
Can I make a bee hive and use a movable frame such as Mr. Quinby describes, without paying for the individual right? And if I have to pay for the right, who is the proper person to be paid? and how much will it cost to make and use for myself, say one or more?
T. H. Apple, Meadville, Pa.
We are happy to be able to say that you may make hives, in any way you desire, so far as we know, without the least necessity of paying any body a right for any thing.
We got up a resolution at our convention, to apply to our Legislature for a law to label all packages of honey with the producer’s name, and let the seller be responsible for adulteration, if not mentioned,—subject to a penalty when detected, etc., etc. Can you give us advice how to act?
M. Quinby.
We do not know that we are able to give any advice in the matter. Would not the law like many others be dropped and forgotten because no one would enforce it? It seems to us that the great work is to educate consumers to know honey and to demand it. This is all that we have to rely on in a great variety of goods, and that establishment that once gets a name of dealing only in genuine commodities, has its fortune made. People are learning rapidly. If any one likes the cheap honey let them use it.