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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



15 



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A REFORM WHICH MUST COME. 



It seems necessary to again refer to 

 the injustice which honey dealers are 

 doing the Southern producer, by quot- 

 ing "Southern" honey. Every few 

 years this habit breaks out anew, and 

 the progressive bee-keeper of the South 

 is obliged to enter into lengthy corre- 



spondence with the dealer, in defense 

 of his product. Being a clear case of 

 misrepresentation, the dealer soon rec- 

 ognizes the fact and promises to dis- 

 continue the practice. The reform lasts 

 until a change is made in the clerical 

 force, or other circumstances are 

 brought to bear which result in its 

 utter disregard, when the apiarian jour- 

 nals are again supplied with a batch of 

 quotations in which the word "South- 

 ern"'stands for inferiority. 



It is doubtless a fact that the South 

 puts upon the market a larger percent- 

 age of low grade honey than any other 

 section of the country. The unpro- 

 gressiveness of many sections of the 

 South is well known. The product of 

 the "bee-keeping" element in such lo- 

 calities, as well as that of other branch- 

 es is necessarily inferior; but this is no 

 reason why the up-to-date producer of 

 the South should have to sufifer the 

 stigma which belongs, obviously, to a 

 product which he has not been guilty 

 of placing upon the market. The fol- 

 lowing paragraph is extracted from a 

 letter recently received from a north- 

 ern dealer, and was written in the 

 course of some correspondence upon 

 this subject: 



"We will agree with you that there 

 are many good honey raisers in the 

 South, who put up their honey as it 

 should be; but, so long as there is so 

 much 'Southern' in evidence, the inno- 

 cent will have to sufifer." 



Well, maybe they will; but they need 

 not, if the dealer and the editors of the 

 journals through which the dealer 

 quotes, will see to it that this unfair 

 practice is discontinued. The writer 

 is not altogether green in the matter 

 of honey and the different grades and 

 degrees of merit which is in fact, and 

 by supposition contained in the prod- 

 ucts of the various parts of America. 

 He has produced and handled honey 

 more or less extensively for the past 

 twenty-two years; and by practical ex- 

 perience has become tolerably conver- 

 sant with the regulation product of the 

 Northern States, Canada, California, 

 Florida and Cuba; and without fear of 

 successful contradiction, he asserts 

 that all the inferior honey on the mar- 

 kets is not barreled by Southern bee- 

 keepers, by a long shot. And if it was, 

 this would be no valid reason why dirty 

 honey should be characterized as 



