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trouble they labelled their goods not 

 "Veritable honey from Bees," but 

 " Veritable Swiss Honey." 



It only remains to know if a 

 honey obtained by feeding sugar 

 can be regarded as pure. The pro- 

 ducers, all competent judges, say 

 "no." In general, sugar is only em- 

 ployed as a food in cases of real need, 

 that is to say, for wintering, and with- 

 in the limits of what the bees can 

 consume themselves ; when there is 

 more than that it is only syrup with- 

 out flavor or taste. Nothing then 

 ought to be called honey except the 

 actual product of the secretions of 

 flowers, and stored therefrom by the 

 bees. 



The conclusions to be drawn from 

 Dr. EUsner's work therefore, are : 

 first, all honey, that under the polar- 

 iscope turns the ray of light to the 

 right, is impure. Second, that the 

 smallest quantity of manufactured 

 glucose added to honey can bq de- 

 tected by using the polariscope. 



Philadelphia, Pa. 



IMPROPRIETIES IN 

 JOURNALISM. 



By S. Corneil. 



Recently the Ca nadia n Bee Jour- 

 nal republished an article on api- 

 culture from the Popi/la?- Science 

 Monthly and called attention to it 

 in a flattering editorial notice, giving 

 credit to the journal from which the 

 article was taken. The editor of the 

 American Bee Jourjial overlooked 

 the editorial paragraph and took the 



editor of the Canadian Bee Journal 

 pretty severely to task for publishing 

 the article as if it were original matter. 

 The same article was afterwards re- 

 published in the American Bee Jour- 

 nal, headed by the words "Popular 

 Science Monthly" but any one who 

 will take the trouble to compare it 

 with the original will see that the ed- 

 itor of the American Bee Journal is 

 guilty of the impropriety of mutilating 

 the article by making alterations, 

 ehsions and additions. In doing so 

 he is unjust to the writer of the article, 

 unjust to the publisher, and he prac- 

 tises a deception upon his readers. 

 There are in all about twenty changes, 

 but I shall take space to refer to two 

 only and leave the reader to say 

 whether or not in making these 

 changes, the editor shows a spirit of 

 petty jealousy in excluding from his 

 columns any complimentary reference 

 to the editor of another bee journal. 

 In the third paragraph of the sec- 

 ond column, page 390, of the Amer- 

 ican Bee Journal, we have this sen- 

 tence : " For the Syrian races of bees 

 leading apiarists claim, etc." In the 

 Popular Science Monthly it reads : 

 "For the Syrian races of bees Mr. 

 Jones and other leading apiarists 

 claim, etc." In the fourth paragraph 

 of the first column on the same page 

 of the American Bee Journal we 

 read: "The Syrian and Cyprian va- 

 rieties have been extensively imported 

 into this country." In the Popular 

 Science Monthly we find it thus : 

 " The Syrian and Cyprian varieties 

 have been extensively imported into 

 this country by that distinguished 

 and enterprising apiarist, D.A. Jones 

 of Beeton, Ontario." 



