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VOL XXXIII. CHICAGO, ILL, APR. 5, 1894. 



NO. 14. 



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** Xliink Xriily, and thy thought 

 Shall the world's famine feed ; 



Speak truly, and each word of thine 

 Shall be a faithful seed ; 



Live truly, and thy life shall be 

 A great and noble creed." 



^Te^v Orang'e-lCIo*>>soin Honey. — 



Mr. A. F. Brown, the migratory bee-speci- 

 alist of Florida, has sent us a very generous 

 sample of his pure orange-blossom ex- 

 tracted honey — some of the crop of 1894, so 

 it's about the "newest thing out." 



We sampled a large number of various 

 honeys at the Worlds Fair last year, but 

 we don't remember tasting anything quite 

 so fine as this orange-blossom honey. We 

 have both clover and basswood honey here 

 in our office, and of excellent quality, but 

 ■we must say, to our taste, this orange- 

 blossom honey is much preferred. It is 

 ■very thick, is exceedingly smooth in taste, 

 and exquisite in its orange-blossomy flavor. 



Mr. Brown writes that he will have about 

 •20,000 pounds (10 tons) of this orange-blos- 

 som honey, and knowing it to be a fine 

 honey he would like to see it placed upon 

 its own merits. He says that very few 

 people (outside of those who produce it) 

 have seen "pure orange-blossom honey," 



and therefore are prone to give it its just 

 dues. Well, we are willing to say, so far 

 as we are concerned, that we believe we 

 could eat it three times a day, and not tire 

 of it very soon. 



Xlie Lians'iiitrotli I'^hikI, we are 



sorry to say, has not recently been receiv- 

 ing the attention and subscriptions which 

 we think it deserves. Please don't forget 

 this opportunity to aid a little in a very 

 worthy object. In acknowledging our last 

 remittance, to Father Langstroth, his 

 daughter writes thus: 



Dayton, O., March 26, 1894. 

 Mk. Geo. W. York.— 



Bear Sir : — My father thanks you very 

 sincerely for your letter, and for all of your 

 kindness to him. He also desires, through 

 you, to thank his apiarian friends for all 

 that they have done for him. His health is 

 substantiailly the same that it has been all 

 winter. Respectfully, 



AxxA L. Cowan. 



Califbrnia Honey Adulteration 



— In Gleaniiigx for March 1.5th we find the 

 following editorial item: 



So it appears from the railroad statistics 

 that California produces over 5,000,000 

 pounds of honey a year. Rambler expresses 

 an opinion that this amount is increased to 

 10.000,000 by the addition of glucose. There 

 was a time when it was policy to keep still, 

 because there was so little glucose-mixing 

 done that it did more harm than good to 

 mention it ; but now the " hush-up-policy " 

 would be suicidal to our industry. It would 

 let the glucose fiend ruin prices on honey, 

 and finally disgust consumers with any- 

 thing bearing the name of honey, so that 

 it would be impossible to dispose of even 

 the pure unadulterated article at even half 

 decent prices. 



Bro. Root is exactly right — "the -hush* 

 up policy ' would be suicidal to our Indus- 



