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W. AV. McNEAL. 



pulilic pulse carefully will recognize in 

 the statement a cold, stern fact. All but 

 about one-half of one per cent, of the 

 people believe that absolutely pure ex- 

 tracted honey can no longer be ob- 

 tained through the customary channels 

 of trade. Producers of honey are wont 

 to attribute this most unpleasant state 

 of afifairs in the market to the withering 

 power of glucose in the hands of the 

 traditional "city-mixer." He is regard- 

 ed as being a most diabolically inclined 

 person who defiles all that is good and 

 sweet and pure in honey. Now, bad as 

 glucose may be, the germ that is sap- 



ping the life of trade in honey finds its 

 abiding place in unscrupulous methods 

 of production! To people of taste and 

 refinement the quality and general ap- 

 pearance of extracted honey in so many 

 instances reflects on the producer such 

 slovenly habits as to be in reality repre- 

 hensible. 



The man who produces thin, unripe, 

 unstrained or dirty honey, and palms it 

 ofT on another is just as desesving of 

 censure as one who puts in glucose and 

 calls it honey. The effects are the 

 same in both cases for both rob honey 

 oi iis rightful constituents. 



