112 



THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



excellent advantages we now offer 

 in establishing a business where 

 goods in this special line will re- 

 ceive undivided care and attention. 

 Any goods intrusted to our care 

 on commission will be disposed of 

 at the highest market price and 

 prompt returns made. Soliciting 

 your patronage, we are, 



Very respectfully, 



McCaul and Hildreth. 



EXCHANGES. 



Detecting Glucose Adultera- 

 tions. — We have received from 

 the Rev. L. L. Langstroth, tlie 

 following letter concerning the re- 

 cent discovery of the new phase 

 of the glucose abomination : 



Oxford, O., July 20, 1883. 

 Friend Newman: — I enclose 

 you what I hope will prove a good 

 way of detecting glucose adulter- 

 ations. I have the promise of 

 some glucoscd maple sugar bought 

 in the open market, which will be 

 soon tested. We propose to move 

 all along upon the enemies' lines. 

 I am aware that these exposures 

 must, for a time, to a certain ex- 

 tent, injure the honey trade ; but 

 they are necessary, and in the end 

 will help it. If beekeepers kept 

 silence, where would these frauds 

 stop? The good old American 

 Bee Journal has done much honest 

 work in this matter. How long 

 will it take to excite a State or the 

 whole country if a President, or 

 even a Senator or Governor is fo 

 be elected, so that vast sums can 

 be raised for election expenses, and 

 yet the people rest almost passive 

 upon the inmiense frauds of adul- 

 terators, who are often destroying 

 health and even life ! It is hard to 



move us in this matter, but the 

 steam of a righteous i-ndignation is 

 making, and its power will be felt. 

 Please correct the only import- 

 ant error of the press in my last 

 communication. I said, "for we 

 do not believe that this company 

 is a sinner above all others," etc., 

 and the tj^pes made me say, "we 

 do believe," etc. Mr. McCord and 

 myself do not wish to make per- 

 sonal attacks upon any one, or to 

 single out any one concern. If 

 any of the many glucose manufac- 

 tories feel aggrieved by our- expos- 

 ure, it cannot be helped. Again, 

 I challenge them, or any of their 

 advocates, to name for what legiti- 

 mate purposes the immense quanti- 

 ties of glucose products are used. 

 I ask them if they dare to sa}- to 

 what uses the}^ are actuall^^ put. 

 We wish " the truth, the whole 

 truth, and nothing but the truth." 

 L. L. Langstroth. 



The letter referred to by Mr. 

 Langstroth, with the method of 

 testing honey, syrups, etc., by 

 Prof. B. F. Marsh, of the Miami 

 University Training School, is as 

 follows : 



Oxford, O., July 18, 1883. 

 Dear Sir: — In answer to your 

 request that I should indicate some 

 easy method by means of which 

 impurities in glucose, syrups, etc., 

 could be detected, I submit the 

 following : 



The impurities most common in 

 manufactured glucose are calcic 

 sulphate, known as sulphate of 

 lime, and sulphuric acid. Calcic 

 sulphate is insoluble in alcohol. 

 If^ therefore, a droi) of glucose 

 containing any <;f the above salt 

 be thoroughly mixed l)y shaking in 

 a ghiss vessel with four or five 

 tablespoonfuls of strong alcohol, 

 a white precipitate of calcic sul- 

 phate will appear and make the 



