where it sold very readily. Now, all we 

 have left is about 500 lbs. of comb honey, 

 and 200 lbs. extracted. 



Conclusion: We will raise nothing but 

 extracted honey. 



1 cannot praise too highly, the ideas of 

 Mr. Clute, as given on page 73, showing that 

 low prices will not injure the bee business; 

 but. on the contrary, will encourage it. 



We have sold honey this year at 10c. per 

 lb., and at that price it pays, and every 

 body can buy it. 



May 1 make a prophecy? In 10 years 

 from now, granulated, extracted honey will 

 alone be in large demand, and will sell as 

 high as comb honey, if not higher. Honey 

 will then be put up, like butter, in tin or 

 wooden pails, or in jars; and not in cans or 

 barrels, with a faucet to draw off, like 

 glucose. 



A few words of thanks to-Messrs. Heth- 

 erington, J. 11. Martin" and others, who 

 support the true way. We shall be the 

 winners, for tens of thousands follow us, 

 and approve. C. P. Dadant. 



Hamilton, 111., March 12, 1878. 



Table Syrups. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



The Norway Maple. 



A CORKECTION. 



After reading Prof. Cook's remarks on 

 "Norway Maple" in your last, I suspected 

 a case of " mistaken identity " tor I was 

 sure if he and I meant the same tree he 

 would have spoken differently. The tree in 

 question is quite common near me. I have 

 several line specimens on my lawn, and 

 they are planted on both sides of the avenue 

 all along Prospect Park. They are called 

 here by the people and nurserymen " Nor- 

 way maple, " and 1 have accepted that name 

 for them without question; but now, exam- 

 ining the descriptions, I tind that they do 

 not answer to that of Aclr platanoldes but 

 as far as I can judge by such parts as I can 

 now find and recollection of other parts, 

 they are the Acer pseudo-platanus or Sy- 

 camore maple. I will add that no other 

 maple, and I believe, no other tree, not 

 even the famous linden, can compare with 

 them in the quantity of honey they yield. 

 They bloom just before white clover, and 

 the trees are literally covered with it— 100 

 to Ion the basswood— and every flower fair- 

 ly drops with honey. The air is tilled with 

 their odor for rods around and the bees 

 swarm over them from early morning to 

 dark and even all night if there is moon- 

 light I did not, at tirst, like the flavor of 

 the honev, but after eating it freely for some 

 time I enjoy it almost as well as buckwheat, 

 which I take for my standard. Several old 

 bee-keepers who have visited me and to 

 I have sent specimens, pronounce it, on 

 first taste, the finest honey they ever saw. 

 It certainly cannot be surpassed in white- 

 ness even bv teasel. The tree is of rapid 

 growth, and one of the finest of the maples 

 for ornamental purposes. I notice all the 

 seed dealers in New York have them on 

 their lists. J. Hasbrouck. 



Flatbush,L.I.,Feb.l8,1878. 



The following is the full "Keport of the 

 Michigan State Board of Health," on a spe- 

 cial investigation concerning impurities 

 and adulturations in Table Syrups. At this 

 time this Report will be read with special 

 interest : 



Many weeks ago a can of syrup was 

 placed in my hands by Prof. Beal, which 

 has the following history: 



A family by the name of Doty, of Hudson, 

 Mich., purchased some syrup of a grocer in 

 that village. The members of the family 

 ate freely of the syrup, and were all made 

 very sick by its use. They became alarmed 

 and sent a can of the syrup to the Agricul- 

 tural College for analysis, supposing it to 

 contain poison. 



Other families in the vicinity became so 

 alarmed by the singular sickness in the 

 Doty family that they returned their syrup 

 to the grocer. The grocer had purchased 

 the syrup from a very respectable wnole- 

 sale dealer in Toledo, Ohio, who claimed to 

 liave bought it from the manufacturer for 

 pure cane syrup. 



The syrup was of a light yellowish-brown 

 color, and looked like a very respectable 

 syrup. It had a decidedly acid reaction 

 with blue litmus paper, turned black when 

 sulphide of ammonium was added to it, and 

 gave a heavy precipitate with oxalate of 

 ammonia. On analysis, I found that the 

 body of the syrup was made of starch suaar 

 (glucose) instead of cane sugar. The 

 amount of foreign impurities will be given 

 in the results of examination, being No. 9 

 in that series. The free sulphuric acid (oil 

 of vitriol), the sulphate of iron (copperas) 

 and sulpho-saccharate of lime were proba- 

 bly the cause of the sickness in the Doty 

 family. 



The results of the analysis of this syrup 

 induced me to examine a number of table 

 syrups to ascertain whether similar adul- 

 terations exist in other varieties of table 

 syrups. 



Dr Letheby, in his admirable work " On 

 Food," states that the Anglo-Saxon popula- 

 tion of England and America consume, 

 annually, 41.4 lbs. of sugar per head; the 

 Latin race, including tlie inhabitants of 

 France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Portugal and 

 Switzerland consume 12.34 ll)s. per head; 

 the Teutonic race of the ZoUverein, Aus- 

 tria, Holland, and Denmark consume 7.3 

 lbs. per head: while the poor of Kussia, 

 Poland, Turkey and Greece consume only 

 3.3 lbs. per head. 



The Anglo-Saxons are pre-eminently a 

 sugar-consuming race. There are few lux- 

 uries so prized by Americans, for whom the 

 chief articles of table luxury have sugar as 

 an important element. The large con- 

 sumption of sugar is not confined to the 

 wealthy, but is almost equally as common 

 with those of limited means. To defraud 

 the poor man of his sweet, is to cheat him 

 out of the chief table comfort which Iiis 

 poverty can atford. 



Before giving the results of my examina- 

 tion of table syrups, I will remind my read- 



