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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



June 



and fancy groceries, flour, feed and 

 general merchandise. 



In a letter written by Mr. , on 



February 15, 1900, he says that Hakes 

 "never sold honey for me. He bought 

 of me, paying cash in advance. * * * 

 I shipped iiim p^ire honey, and I rather 

 think that he sold it as I shipped it to 

 him. Of course I do not know ; and, so 

 far as my personal interest is concerned, 

 I do not care. * * * I think I have had 

 ample evidence that chemists cannot 

 tell adulterated from pure honey. * * * 

 It appears they guess at it. * * * In 

 view of Mr. Hakes' testimony, as report- 

 ed from his customers, if the honey I 

 sent him was adulterated, it would 

 probably be beneficial'to both producers 

 and consumers if all honey was adul- 

 terated in the same way." 



Several years ago, perhaps twelve or 

 thirteen, some well-known bee-keepers 

 felt satisfied that Mr. was en- 

 gaged in adulterating honey, and selling 

 it to his customers, and since that 

 time several have complained that the 

 honey purchased of him was adulterat- 

 ed before it reached them, and have 

 stated that the packages they received 

 showed no signs of having been changed 

 or tampered with in any way from the 

 time they were shipped till received by 

 them. 



A little over six years ago there was 

 an impression that Mr. was en- 

 gaged in adulterating honey ; and a 

 chemical analysis of some honey claimed 

 to have been bought of him, showed 

 that it was adulterated with at least 50 

 per cent, of glucose, as was shown in 

 Oleanings in Bee Culture at that time. 



It is possible that this report is too 

 long, and may contain matter that may 

 not have any bearing on or connection 

 with it ; but I thought it might be well 

 in every possible way, to expose the 

 adulterators, whoever they may be, and 

 so put producers, dealers and consumers 

 on their guard against adulterators; and 

 if only a small portion of the statements 

 and affidavits before me are true, one of 

 our number has gone astray, and if so, 

 should be exposed. 



UNITED STATES BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION. 



Secretary- 

 Ohio. 



Dr. A. B. Mason, Station B, Toledo, 

 Hon. Eugene 



General Manager and Treasurer 

 Secor, Forest City, la. 



Know your customer, and suit your 

 package to your trade. — C. A. Hatch in 

 Gleanings. 



From the Americnn Bee Journal. 



MARKETING EXTRACTED HONEY — MAKING 



IT A STAPLE. 

 ****** 



Must we acknowledge that there is 

 by all odds more of comb honey eaten 

 as a sweet than of extracted ? It surely 

 looks that way. Mr. E. R. Root, in a 

 paper before the Philadelphia conven- 

 tion estimated that the annual product 

 of comb honey was perhaps 50,000,000 

 pounds and that of extracted probably 

 twice. as much, or 100,000,000. I also 

 glean from the bee-papers of late that 

 there are single firms that consume from 

 200,000 to 300,000 pounds. If such large 

 quantities be used by single maufacto- 

 ries, surely the great number of firms 

 consuming in baking and the many 

 other uses to which honey is put in the 

 arts, there must be but a small portion 

 of the 100,000,000 pounds that gets to 

 the table as a syrup. Knowing that the 

 great bulk of comb honey is used on the 

 table, and yet it is a very rare article 

 among the masses, we must conclude 

 that extracted is comparatively un- 

 known to the great bulk of consumers of 

 sweets. 



I began here about eight years ago to 

 sell extracted honey, and a few hundred 

 pounds was all that was sold in the 

 community, but now I can sell almost as 

 many thousands as I then did of hun- 

 dreds. My local trade has increased 

 year by year, until now I can sell almost 

 a carload a year to a village of less 

 than 2,000 inhabitants, together with 

 the surrounding farm community. Even 

 at this rate there are many families who 

 do not use honey and many others that 

 use it only as a luxury now and then. 



That tiiere is a very large per cent. — 

 yes, the great majority — of our popula- 

 tion who do not use honey, is a fact. 

 Those people who do not would use it if 

 it were as accessible as other sweets, and 

 compared favorably in price. I make 

 this statement without fear of success- 

 ful contradiction. I have proven it right 

 here and others have done the same thing 

 in oth(!r localities. 



WHY IS HONEY NOT USED ? 



A business man who is always out of 



