1900 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



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directly to your customers, just as you 

 gei it from me. rely upon it, it is strictly 

 pure ; but,' said he. 'I would not bet. ' 

 That is the tirst thing that opened my 

 eyes." 



At the close of Mr. Halves' testimony 

 the court instructed the jury, and they 

 returned a verdict of guilty, without 

 leaving their seats. 



I felt pretty well satisfied that Mr. 

 Hakes supposed he was selling pure 

 honey, and I believed that the members 

 of our Association cared more for the 

 conviction of those guilty of selling adul- 

 terated honey, and stopping the prac- 

 tice, than to punish a party who seemed 

 so innocent of fraud as^ Mr. Hakes 

 seemed to be ; and, 6eing under 

 that impression, I asked the Court to 

 impose the lightest penalty the law 

 would allow, which the Court did, fin- 

 ing him $25, which, I believe, was paid 

 by some of Mr. Hakes' friends. 



As an officer of an organization that 

 has for one of its objects the prevention 

 of adulteration of honey, I was very 

 much interested in this case : and as 

 the evidence seemed to indicate that Mr. 



was guilty of selling adulterated 



honey, and that he did the adulterating 

 himself, I have taken some pains to 

 learn if he really was engaged in such 

 business and the tirst thing to hand is 

 Bulletin No. .50. of the Michican Dairy 

 and Food Department, and under the 

 head of '•Honey"' I find this: 



"No. A, 298. Sample of honey (brand 

 •Pure E.Ktracted Honey') taken from 

 original package at Jackson. Sold 

 (1899) by M. G. Hakes, agent, Jackson. 

 Producer. . ." Then fol- 

 lows a statement of the analysis of the 

 sample and following this are the words, 

 "Glucose flavored with honey." 



On the same page of the bulletin on 

 which the above appears are three 

 other similar reports in which each 

 sample examined was marked "Pure 



Extracted Honey. Producer, , 



." and on each exhibit is marked. 



"Glucose flavored with honey." 



On the next page of the bulletin are 

 two more reports similar to the above 

 in which appears as the "produ- 

 cer" and Mr. Hakes as ••agent." and I 

 believe it is claimed there was about the 

 same amount of adulteration in each 

 sample as in the one for the sale of 

 which Mr. Hakes was convicted — about 

 57 per cent. 



In an article, which appeared in the 

 Fanii Journal, of Philadelphia, for Jan- 

 uarv. 1900. in an editorial under the 



heading, "Food Adulterations," the 

 editor says : "Some important facts on 

 this subject are found in the recently 

 issued bulletin No. 50, of the Dairy and 

 Food Department of the State of Michi- 

 gan. * * * Eight samples of honey var- 

 iously marked as 'Pure Extracted,' 'York 

 State,' etc., were found to be only 

 glucose flavored with honey. Six of 

 these samples claimed to be produced by 

 a person having a name well known and 

 honored among bee-keepers," etc. The 

 other two samples are marked "Produ- 

 cer, Steel-Wedels Co., Chicago, HI." 



On Feb. 8, 1900, Mr. Wm. A. Selser, 

 chemist, of Philadelphia, makes this 

 report: "This is to certify that I have 

 analyzed the sample of honey sent, 



marked No. 1, bought of . 



by L. H. Warren, Jennings, Mo., and 

 found the same to be 53 per cent, to 54 

 per cent, adulteration of glucose;'" and 

 on the same date Mr. Selser certifies 

 that another sample sent him was 

 "bought of , by L. H War- 

 ren, Jennings, Mo.," was found to con- 

 tain "58 per cent, to 60 per cent, of 

 glucose." 



Wishing to know what Mr. Warren 

 had to say, I wrote him March 12, ult., 

 and in his reply, dated March 17, 1900, 

 he says, "'I bought seventy sixty-pound 



cans of extracted honey from 



, which I received as follows," and 



gives the number of cans received at 

 different times : Five cans in September, 

 1899; fifteen cans at each of two ship- 

 ments in November, and thirty-five cans 

 by two shipments in December. 



Mr. Warren says. "It may seem 

 strange to you that I bought so much, 

 and will explain : The first lot of five 

 cans which I got as a sort of sample, 

 was adulterated very little ; but every 

 lot got worse. A small sample of this 

 lot which I have on hand now, has 

 granulated solid, but streaked ; another 

 lot only looks cloudy. * * * The last 

 lot does not granulate any more than 

 any other glucose. * * * Analysis of 

 this shows 58 per cent, to 60 per cent, 

 glucose. * * * Only about two hundred 

 pounds of this last lot was turned back 

 on me. I had no suspicion of this honey 

 being adulterated until I had disposed 

 of nearly all of it. * * * After I had 

 found out that the honey was not pure, 



I wrote to asking for a written 



guarantee of its purity. * * * He wrote 

 back, 'I take pleasure in certifying that 

 I shipped you pure, extracted honey.'" 



Mr. W^arren is a member of the firm 

 of Warren & Mange, dealers in staple 



