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C.LKANINCS IN HKE CULTURE. 



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taliiihiii'ii. ill llu'ivport lu'forc us. witli the name 

 anil a lit! It 'ss of t lu' (xm'sous pultiiiir up t lio satti- 

 plo. Tlic latilcs tlu'Misclvcs arc iiol vciy ddi- 

 iiitc to tlio iiiiiid of tlic aviMaiic btH'-kt'cpcr. bt>- 

 oaus(> only u (.•luMuist can nial<(» out what they 

 mean: but th«'n' aro sonio thiusis that cvcMy 

 out' iMu undcrstauil. It scimus that some saui- 

 i)lt>s of honey were ohtaiufd frtmi ("harli's F. 

 Sluth.a bt'i'-ktvpcr and com mission nuMcliaut 

 of iutefirity. and who. as is well known, is cu- 

 tiivly above the disreputable business of adul- 

 teratiuc tiouey. As we stated, all the samples 

 are numbered", and we will quote a few of them. 

 No. 1(>4. page 7S8. reads: 



" Pure machine - extracted honey, from the 

 Italian apiary of C. F. Mutli, contains fully .50 

 per cent of adulterant. The machine alluded 

 to in the label is doubtless the convtM'ter by 

 which corn starch is changed into glucose in 

 ButTalo and other places." 



Again we (]uote: 



•• No. lOii. labeled ' Muth's California Honey.' 

 is almost pure glucose." 



And again: 



*■ No. 127 is warranted pure honey, put up by 

 C. F. Muth vt Son. It is nearly half glucose." 



And still again: 



" No. 149 is another illustration of adulterated 

 honey bearing the label of C. F. Muth ifc Son;" 

 and so on through the seveial pages of num- 

 bered samples fi'om different commission houses, 

 the honey is branded as "' adulterated." But 

 the strangest thing about it is. that some of the 

 scamps whom we feel sure are adulterating, 

 are counted as selling pure goods. C. F. Muth's 

 name as a honey merchant and a bee-keeper is 

 above reproach. No man has done more than 

 he to fight the adulteration of honey, and he is 

 the very last one in the whole trade who could 

 be pravailed upon to enter the disreputable 

 business. We can say with almost a certainty, 

 that every sample of honey that goes out of C. 

 F. Muth's establishment is absolutely pure — at 

 least, if adulterated it was not done while in 

 his hands: and he has been too long in the bus- 

 iness to be fooled w^ith honeys that are not pure. 



To show you how thoroughly incompetent 

 Prof. Wiley is in his methods of analysis, we 

 will state that Charles F. Muth some time ago 

 sent him samples of pure honey, just as it was 

 taken from the hive, asking him to make a chem- 

 ical analysis. Professor Wiley did so, and an- 

 nounced that((/i were adulterated. This alone 

 is enough to show that the methods \\hich the 

 chief chemist in the Department of Agriculture 

 and his associates have adopted are exceedingly 

 faulty. As Prof. Cook has so ably shown, hon- 

 ey does contain natural glucose: and pure 

 honeys will show many if not all of the chemical 

 reactions found in adulterated goods. In view 

 of this. Prof. Wiley and his associates have 

 called down upon themselves the reproach of 

 the whole bee-keei)ing world; and at a large 

 expense to the government have giv(Mi us a 

 report (so far as it relates to honey) lilled 

 with error and absurdity. Professor Wiley 

 has once before, by virtue of his high o)'tic»\ 

 done bee-keepers an irreparable damage by his 

 falsehood in regard to manufacturtid comb lion- 

 ey; and then when cornered he slyly slipped 

 out of it by saying that it was a']jiec(! of 

 "scientific pleasantry." If not malicious, as we 

 hope he is not, we deem him thoroughly incom- 

 petent to analyze or direct about analyzing 

 honey. 



As we have said before, we do not deny that 

 extracted honey is adulterated to some extent; 

 but we do deny that nearly all liquid honey 

 upon the market is glucosed, as this report tries 

 to make us believe. The truth is bad enough; 

 but when it is turned into a falsehood, we 

 "kick.'" 



IF YOU WANT BEES 



Tli.il will Just "roll" ill the JKUny. I ly Moore's 

 strain of italian>, the result of Hi veai-s' cat'eful 

 breediiiK. T. .1. Moflilt, Kemps Mills, N. C., suys: 

 "Tlu-y beat any thiiiff T cvit saw in the bee line. 

 Tliey are certainly ' rollintr ' in the lioncy now; one 

 oftlicm l)cat.s thicc of my others at work. I would 

 not take .t.^.iH) .■i])ieco for the (jueeiis. Tlie.v seem 

 very Mt'ii'lc." I'rici»8: Warranted queens, in June, 

 $1. (It) each; ;i for *2 .50. Tested queens in May, *:i.00 

 each; select tested. $2.50. Circulars free. 8d 



J. P. MOORE, Mortran, Pendleton Co., Ky. 

 In writini? to advertisers pleane mention this paper. 



FOLLOWING LOW PRICES : 



Untested, before June 1, U 00; after, 75c. Tested, 

 before June 1, $1..50; after June 1, $1.00. Safe arriv- 

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 Cheaper than ever before known. Write for prices 

 on large orders. 



OTTO J. E. URBAN, Prop., 

 Thorndaue, Texas, 



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Our dolden ami L,eather Col- 

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 Hrecl for Jiiisiiies.s. 



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mail. Send for catalog of supplies, etc. 



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queen and bees received of you last spring made 



147 lbs. of comb honey, and took first premium at 



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Q 3 " " 2.50 5^ 



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^ Two-frame Nucleus with any queen, ^ 



»-J $1.50 each e.vtra. Safe arriA'al guar- rj: 



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