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i^The Cincinnati Commercial, in a 

 recent article concerning the "Honey 

 Trade," remarks : 



" Ohio is the home of the person who, par 

 excellence, knows more about bees than 

 anybody else in the United States. It is the 

 Rev. L. L. Langstroth, of Oxford, Ohio. He 

 it was who invented the only bee-hive which 

 is worth a straw, and w r ho lias shared the 

 fate of most inventors that have really been 

 benefactors to their race, in that he is a poor 

 man to-day." 



The Commercial in the latter clause 

 states a fact that should burn the ears 

 of a few, who so persistently labored to 

 impoverish him who so generously bene- 

 fitted the past as well as the present 

 and future generations of bee-keepers, 

 by the invention of the movable frame 

 hive; for 



"Ever shall truth come uppermost. 

 And ever shall justice be done." 



Well let us see now who will feel 

 deeply enough to in a measure repair 

 the injury done by designing and selfish 

 men of the last decade. 



" Some men die not ; the grave's abyss 

 Is never deep enough to hide 

 Their grandest acts, whose light shines on 

 Like beacons on a mountain side. 



" The deep pulsations of their lives 

 Throb on, and on, through ages vast, 

 As ceaseles as a river's flow.s 

 And Time and Death's eclipse outlast." 



Wisdom of Feeding Glucose.— 

 Prof. Cook, in the Country Gentleman, 

 says: "Mr. Boot has persistently de- 

 clared that glucose and grape sugar 

 were separate and distinct. Of course, 

 this is utterly incorrect, as any chemis- 

 try, physiology or dictionary Avill assert. 

 It may be that the so-called glucose of 

 commerce may contain a variable 

 amount of dextrine or other substance. 

 If so, the name glucose is a misnomer. 

 Practically it makes no difference. The 

 liquid called glucose, and the solid 

 grape sugar are alike in being conven- 

 ient adulterants for honey. Either may 

 be used for that purpose. The liquid is 

 pleasant, the solid when dissolved is 

 bitter, so if either is to be used, the 

 liquid is preferable. If either is used, 

 honesty requires that the label shows 

 the exact composition. Feeding glu- 

 cose for winter stores is not to be rec- 

 ommended. The safety of this prac- 

 tice is not yet assured, and the danger 

 from such practice to our market is ap- 

 parent, while the financial advantage 

 which extracted honey at the present 

 low price is too slight to make it greatly 

 desirable, even though it were safe, and 

 free from all danger to the markets." 



Well, What Next ?— The latest ex- 

 ploit of the San Francisco reporter is the 

 alleged exposure of a process for manufac- 

 turing hen's eggs from deleterious materi- 

 als. According to the narrative, the albu- 

 men is imitated by a mixture of sulphur, 

 carbon and fatty matter obtained from the 

 slaughter houses and rendered sticky with 

 mucilage. The yolk is made of blood, phos- 

 phate of lime, magnesia, muriate of ammo- 

 nia, oleic and margaric acids, and colored 

 with chrome yellow. The shells are shaped 

 by a blow-pipe from a mass of gypsum; 

 plaster of Paris, carbonate of lime and ox- 

 ide of iron. After the shells are blown the 

 albumen is forced in through a hole in the 

 small end and sticks to the sides ; then the 

 yolk is added, and after being covered with 

 more of the albumen mixture the hole is 

 sealed with cement; the complete egg is 

 rubbed pretty smooth and laid aside for 

 packing. It is asserted that many barrels 

 of these eggs have been shipped eastward for 

 consumption. 



The ingenuity of this conception is 

 worthy of a much better cause ; but we 

 cannot believe that such a thing was ever 

 accomplished. If it did occur the manu- 

 facturer should be punished very severely. 

 Oh, how much we do need a general and 

 stringent law against adulteration, that 

 would reach all such nefarious rascals as 

 the inventor of the alleged "eggs," and 



'' wooden nutmegs " ! 



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Test of Adulteration,— If you 

 have cause to suspect adulteration in 

 honey with glucose proceed as follows : 

 Take a quantity of honey and add one 

 part water, dissolving the honey thor- 

 oughly by stirring. Then add alcohol 

 of 80° until a turbidness is formed 

 which does not disappear on shaking. 

 If glucose syrup is present in the honey 

 soon a heavy deposit of a gummy, milky 

 mass will form, while with pure honey 

 there will only be a very slight milky 

 appearance observed. 



Granulated Honey.— The Jews of 

 Moldavia and the Ukraine prepare from 

 honey a sort of sugar, which is solid and 

 white as snow, which they send to the 

 distilleries at Dantzic. They expose 

 the honey to frost for three weeks, 

 where neither sun nor snow can reach 

 it, and in a vessel that is a bad conduc- 

 tor of caloric, by which process it 

 becomes clear and hard like sugar. 



In Cyprus the manner in which bees 

 are kept is curious, and deserves notice. 

 Walls formed entirely of earthen cylinders, 

 each about 3 feet long, are placed one above 

 the other horizontally, and closed at the ex- 

 tremities with mortar. This wall is then 

 covereed with a shed, and upwards of 100 

 colonies are maintained within a very small 

 compass. 



