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more readily ! It will seriously damage 

 the liouey business, as cousumers will be- 

 come suspicious. Almost the ouly safe- 

 guard to cousumers is the reputation of 

 the dealer. I cannot warrant the purity 

 of my honey any more if sold by another 

 party, except it be in small packages with 

 my name on every one. 



To illustrate : A friend, druggist, buys 

 his honey of me because, as he says, he 



believs it to be pure and because he 



wants to do his own "mixing." He did 

 not believe that I was able to pick out my 

 pure from his mixed honey, and invited 

 me to come to his store for a trial. I 

 went and picked the right jar, but, as 

 stated above, I did not miss the flavor and 

 almost not the trasparency and color, but 

 merely the "acid" in the adulterated 

 honey. His mixture was one part honey 

 and four parts glucose. Glucose is worth 

 7i cents a pound in Cincinnati. It can be 

 had light, like the sample I send you, and 

 of the color of nice clover honey and in 

 any shade darker. Glucose crystalizes 

 with the honey. It should be an object 

 to every bee-keeper and especially to the 

 editors of every bee journal to post every- 

 body in regard to the matter. Honey 

 should always be sold by its proper name, 

 and the consumer should be taught to un- 

 derstand that the quality of the boney is 

 determined only by the source it is derived 

 from. I was astonished sometime ago by 

 one of our prominent (?) brethren who 

 maintained that sugar syrup, after it had 

 passed through the honey sack of the bee, 

 was as good honey as any. Our friend gets 

 sometimes large crops by mixing a few 

 barrels of coftee sugar. Next season, I 

 suppose, glucose will help him out. 



Cincinnati, O. Chas. F. Muth. 



description of a bee's sting. I liken it to 

 an irate insekt sitting on your fase, with 

 a needle in his pantz. P. 



For tlie American Bee Journal. 



A Student of Billings. 



Sum folks wont hav eny frame unless 

 it's 12x13. I gess it would doo, and hold 

 as much, if it was 18x18 or 9x1(5. 



I have hear a man yell just as far when 

 an Italyen stings him as if it waz a black 

 or hybrid. 



Sum of my friends like tu look into a 

 hive with their fases all bare ; which it is 

 fun enuf for me tu stand behind some 

 muskeeto bar when I look in. 



Experiense iz a skool where tuishun iz 

 hy, I went awhile. In regard to a smok- 

 er, I made my own, of a tin box and bel- 

 los of oilcloth. The tryal trip, the snoot 

 kum otV, bu unsodering, and I was trod 

 under foot bi a bee. Then I bot Quin- 

 by's. 



Mr. Langstroth gives a very sieutifik 



For the American Bee Journal. 



Candied v-^- Liquid Honey. 



If my friend Argo was surprised in 

 reading my article on candied honey, I 

 acknowledge that I was greatly surprised 

 in reading his. I have never seen pure 

 honey remaining liquid all winter. This 

 is why I have written that all liquid honey 

 in Avinter is an impure article ; or at least 

 an article which, by heating, has lost a 

 great part of its quality. I have never 

 tried the plan proposed by Mr. Argo, al- 

 though I came very near it ; all the diflFer- 

 ence being that my honey was not put 

 in a room altogether obscure. I will try 

 it this year and report. If it works with 

 me as it did with Mr. Argo, I shall regret 

 it, for the bee-keeper will have lost the 

 most easy means of testing the purity of 

 honey. Besides, liquid honey is always 

 more apt to sour than candled honey. 



Hamilton, 111. Chas. Dadakt. 



P. S. Mr. H. Burch, in his "Money in 

 in the Apiary" accords with me, when he 

 says, that we ought to teach consumers 

 til at a granulated article is better, besides 

 being absolutely pure. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



Adulterated Honey. 



I see, in the report of the Korth-Eastern 

 bee convention, that steps should be taken 

 to obtain from the Legislature, a law 

 making it a misdemeanor to aflix the 

 name of pure honey on a spurious article. 

 I think it would be a move in the right 

 direction : To help it, I will say what the 

 laws of France are against the adulterator. 



Twice every year, at irregular intervals, 

 a sanitary commission, formed of three 

 honest and learned doctors and chemists, 

 visits the groceries, the drug-stores, the 

 bar-rooms, the cotlee-houses, the galleries, 

 confectioneries, breweries, &c. ; in fact 

 all the stores and manufacturers of eata- 

 ble products. All the Products and mat- 

 ters are carefully inspected. If some 

 seem spurious, or impaired, by age or 

 otherwise, they are analized. If proved 

 adulterated, they are destroyed and the 

 adulterator is heavily fined and some- 

 times condemned to jail. 



Tlie protection of law extends further 

 yet, for each article of jewelry, before 

 going from the sho^) to the store, must 

 be assayed and coined. If the quantity 

 of alloy exceeds the allowance permitted 

 by the law, the jewels are hammered. 



