340 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. Mak. 15. 



which country he has traveled. California is Reducing- sug-ar, calculated as dextrose .58.11%- 



,, ^ , u n e /-i 1 1 . " '■ .1 .. iiivertose 59.95^,', 



well represented now by Pror. Cook and our waier 21.30^. 



old friend the irrepressible Rambler; Texas by Ash 2ii% 



the AtphlPvs- Anstr-iliH hv several ffond writ- . '^'''^ sample is undoubtedly adulterated with at 



uie Aicnieys, Ausiiaiid oy seveiai gooa win ^^,.^^^ g,,. ^^ g-luL-ose, altliough, as you know, it is. 



ers; China and IJnrmah by several of our mis- not ])u.ssible to determine tlie exact amount on ac- 



sionaries; Syria by Ph. J. Ealdensperger, now ^VtVcoses^ *'"' ditteience in rotation of the various 



stationed in France; ^Ir. Malan in Northern Trusting that this analysis will be satisfactory, I 



Italy; Illinois by Dr. Miller; York State by G. ^™' ^''^^'*'''h"w['wiley. Chemist. 



M. Doolittle — in fact, we shall have to stop, (116,53— E. E. E.-J. S. C.) 



for if we go on we shall have to mention several Waslmwton, D. C. Apr. 1, 1S93. 



other States in the Union as well as several A sample was also submitted to Prof. Cook, 



more foreign countries. "The world is our ^nd was by him also pronounced adulterated 



parish," as Wesley said. ^'»*^ glucose. 



You may ask why we did not write to Mr. 



CHEMICAL ANALYSES OF HEDDON's HONEY. Heddon in regard to this thing. We did so, but 



For several years back reports have been received any thing but a satisfactory answer, 



coming to us, to the effect that James Heddon, ^ believe we practice and preach that kind of 



of Dowagiac, Mich., was selling honey adulter- charity that •' is kind, and suiTereth long;"' and 



ated with glucose. Believing him to be a good that is the reason why we did not publish the 



straight man, and one of the veterans among analysis before: but the affidavit below, of a 



honey-producers, we assured each one who more recent case, it serms to me, dc7nmic7s that 



wrote us that there must be some mistake, for t^^^ bee-keepers oJ our land be notiHed of these- 



we said it was not possible that Mr. Heddon things. 



could think of doing any thing so unwise and ^"'' ^^"*' "^ '^'"■"' f "•"«''"»« ^''•; *f^- ^ 

 * I- u » i ..1 /^i • c.^ i /-. ^- ■ r^^ Personally nppeared before me. John C. Hemmeter. 

 foolish. At the Ohio State Convention in Cleve- .^ Notary Public for and within said County, Geo! 

 land, however, held on the 19th and ;.'Oth days G.Willard. who being- by me first duly sworn upon 

 of February, 1890. a sample tumbler of honey TifaUiei^sVonductinp- a general merchandise bus- 

 was shown us, after one of the sessions, said iness at No. 270 Peat-l street, in the city of Cleveland,, 

 honey having been purchas(d of one of Mr. ^St^on^SiouMhe^irl^ Novemberlastv 

 Heddon's customers, I had a talk with the affiant received a shipment of honey from James 

 W.O., ,„v,.^ u^^.^r^ui- +1 u„. „ „ ^ T +„i^ u;™ Heddon. doiiiK business a1 Diiwagiac, in tlie State of 

 man who brought the honey, and I told him Michigan: that said honey so shipped and received 

 that, from my acquaintance with such mix- by the affiant hereof was represented to be a pure 

 turps T was entisHed in mv own minrl thit tViP and unadulterated article: in accordance with said 

 tures, 1 was satisnea in my own mind that the statement of representation of its inirity, did 

 sample contained a large ])er cent of glucose, authorize the seUing of tlie same to the trade liy 

 Thp mnftPj- unc; tnlUprl nf mnrp or ipse hptwppn I'ls agents. That on or about the Tth dayof De- 

 inemattei wa.staiRea ot more or less between cember, following, one of the affiant's agents was 

 all the sessions by quite a number of the bee- arrested by the State authorities, for offering and 

 kppners- n nd nltbono-h wp discnespd it in p nnipt Selling an adulterated and impure honey, and suh- 

 Keepejs. ana aitnougn weaiscussea itin aquiet pce„pd to appear for trial before a legal tribunal, 

 way, a reporter for a large daily got hold of it having jurisdiction in the premises: affiant, in con- 

 and had it written un in flamino- stvlp As junction with said agent, appeared in said Court on 

 ana naa ii written up in naming style. As ^j^^ ^.^^^ ^^^ j^,. ^j.^^,,^ heuvA the hearing of said 



soon as Ernest got wind of it, he buttonholed ag-ent, and all the witnessps in connection with the 



the renorter and desired him to keen the whole case, including that of the State's Chemist. 



Due lepoiier anu uesiiea mm to Keep ine wnoie rj,,,^,, ^he iudge, after summing up the evidence, 



out of print because he (Ernest) thought there rendeied a verdict as cliarged, and fining said agent 



must be some mistake, and there the matter twenty-flye dollars and the cos^.s of prosecution 



' (aggregating- the sum of $64.85), which aniount the 



dropped. Complaints still kept coming, how- affiant hereof paid. 



ever, and finally, by my direction. Ernest asked whereupon atfiant procured another sample out 



' J' J J '-•J of same shipment, and delivered same to Professor 



a well-known bee-keeper to purchase two cans Hobhs (being the Profe.«sor of Chemistry at the 



of honey from Mr. Heddon, and forward them Cleveland Medical College) fm- further anajyzation 



•' ' who. upon performance of tlie same, coincided with 



on to US. This bee-keeper did so, and al?o sent the State Chemist, in pronouncing it "adulterated 



an affidavit to the effect that the same honey and impure." Further, affiant saith not 



, . , . , , •' Geo. G. WiTT.ARi). 



was reshipped to us without taking from the de- Sworu to before me. and by the .said George G. 



pot, and this we have in our possession. The W'l'iU'fl. «"t's';r":!f,iJ,i" ^nj' presence tins ninth dayof 



; . , . , T,, TT , , , February, A. D. 1894. John C. Hemmeter, 



honey was received with Mr. Heddon's tag at- Notary Pubhc. 



tached to the cans, and it seemed to be (judg- The so-called "cheap honey" Mr. Heddon 



ing from the taste), adulterated largely with has been advertising for a number of years, 



glucose, and a poor (juality at that. A sample together with his recent utterances on the glu- 



was submitted to j'rof. H. W. Wiley, chief cose question, and which we have criticised, 



chemist at Washington, D. C, through Prof, seem to give coloring to the statements of the 



Cook, and here is his report: four different chemists. 



Prof. A.. T. Cook, Aoriciiitufdl Cidh'or, Midi. We have statements from other parties, not 



fi^^'Slnfi^'/'-T^''''' '^'}""''V i;L'.'""''-y. ""''"* 'T^'"!,'"" depending upon analysis, but think best to 



the 20th mst.. numbcn-d 1(10, has been entered as ,,,,„, ^ , . 



Serial No. IKJ.W; on analysis it gave the following withhold them for the present. In conclusion, we 



numbers: would say that we have given the facts for -just 



Direct voi^riz^MonuX-^^^^^^^_^^^^^^..^.....^!^3 ^^,^^ ^jj^y ^e,e ^^rth, and the reader may 



Sucrose (calculated from above readings) o.8% draw his own conclusions. A. I. R. 



