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W. Z. HUTCHlflSOri, EditoP & Pvop, 



FLINT, MICHIGAN, NOV, 10, 1892. 



VOL, V, 



NO, II, 



The special topie of this issue is 



Raisir^g Sugar - Honeij, 



That of the next issue txtill be 



Best Articles From Best Men. 



[The following article came last spring after 

 it had been decided that the sugar-honey discus- 

 sion mast take a rest It was with considerable 

 reluctance that I lai ■ it aside, as it seemed to me 

 to be the only real, honest attempt to combat the 

 ideas advanced by our friend Hasty. Now that 

 the discussion has again come to the surface, it 

 is with pleasure that I allow friend Dasgitt to be 

 heard. In order to shorten the discussion, I sent 

 Mr. Daggitt's article to Mr. Hasty, that his reply 

 might appear in the same issue. Mr. Hasty's re- 

 joinder will immeliately follow this article.-Eo.] 



Genuine Honey Comes Only From the Flow- 

 ers.— Dire Results Expected From the 

 Raising of " Sugar Honey." 



E. A. DAGGITT. 



filE imi5ortance of this subject is now 

 brought prominently before the bee- 

 keeping public by the claim of a lead- 

 ing bee-keeper that sugar syrup fed to honey 

 bees slowly and at a suitable distance from 

 the hives, will undergo certain changes and 

 become honey. Such a statement made by 

 some unknown person and published in a 

 paper but little known would deserve but 

 little attention, but when made by so prom- 

 inent a bee-keeper as Mr. E. E. Hasty and 

 published in, and indorsed by a journal of 



such high standing as the Bee-Keepebs' Re- 

 view, deserves the serious attention of every 

 bee-keeper. The more I think this matter 

 over the more do I comprehend its signifi- 

 cance and realize the dangers that may come 

 from such a statement. Unless truth over- 

 takes this error, I fear serious consequences 

 will follow. How quick will the sensational 

 papers— and others too— take up this state- 

 ment and herald it as proof of the demoral- 

 ized condition of the honey business and 

 that the " Wiley lie" may be true after all. 

 Already I can see the gallant ship, Comb Hon- 

 ey, with her delicious cargo, driven among 

 shoals with " breakers ahead " and if she is 

 not skillfully managed she will be stranded 

 on the shoals of adulteration where her for- 

 mer proud consort. Extracted Honey, lies 

 stranded, and she too will be dashed and 

 rocked by the breakers of suspicion and dis- 

 grace. May this imagery never be the figure 

 of reality. Most nobly has this brave ship 

 ridden the storms of the past and withstood 

 the angry billows of the "Wiley lie " and it 

 would be a pity if she should be driven 

 aground at last. 



Honey is a sweet product of bees derived 

 from flowers, and nothing else, Mr. Hasty's 

 " sugar honey " is only an imitation of hon- 

 ey. It bears about the same relation to 

 honey that oleomargrine does to butter, It 

 may be chemically nearly like honey. It 

 may look quite as nice, taste just as good 

 —but I doubt it — and be just as nourishing ; 

 but still it is not honey. Oleomargarine is 

 chemically nearly like butter and so closely 



