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The others have buckled their armor. 



And forth to the fight are gone ; 

 A place in the ranks awaits you, 



Each man has some part to play — 

 The past and the future are nothing 



In the face of the stern to-day. 



Stay not to sharpen your weapons, 



Or the hour will strike at last, 

 When from dreams of a coming battle 



You may wake to find it past. 

 Your future has deeds of glory, 



Of honor, God grant it may ! 

 But your arm will never be stronger, 



Or the need so great as to-day. 



Thomas G. Newman. 

 Chicago, Ills., Oct. 5, 1893. 



The Adulteration of Honey. 



Prof. H. W. Wiley was then called 

 upon. He said the great points of suc- 

 cess were the production and the mark- 

 eting of honey, without these financial 

 success would not come. Some un- 

 doubtedly kept bees for pleasure, but 

 the majority could not be found in the 

 bee-keeping ranks unless there was 

 profit in the business. He was anxious 

 to help bee-keepers in their market, but 

 by adulteration bee-keepers had been 

 cheated out of fully half the market for 

 honey. There was at present no way of 

 telling pure honey by chemical tests. 

 He regarded pure honey as honey gath- 

 ered from flowers and stored by them. 

 If sugar were fed to bees with a propor- 

 tion of sugar invert, it would be difficult 

 to detect the fraud. A method not prac- 

 ticed in America, but in Europe, was to 

 artificially invert sugar and mix it with 

 an artificial article. With such samples 

 as mentioned, he would hesitate to pro- 

 nounce. Again, in the exudation from 

 plant-lice, he had pronounced such as 

 unadulterated. It was* his intention to 

 pursue this problem, and he thought 

 they would be able to solve these prob- 

 lems, and detect adulteration. He 

 wanted the association to know that he 

 was anxious to help bee-keepers. 



In reply to a question. Dr. Wiley said 

 he had purchased his samples of ex- 

 tracted honey from stores. The bulk of 

 impure honey had been put up by pack- 

 ers ; some, however, had the labels of 

 bee-keepers on the packages. He thought 

 bee-keepers should see that no one coun- 

 terfeited their labels. 



The subject came of finding a pack- 

 age of honey impure, with the name of 

 Chas. F. Muth & Son on it. 



E. R. Root said that there were pack- 

 ages of honey with Mr. Muth's name on 

 which did not read as the genuine labels 

 did ; some one was therefore practicing 

 adulteration. 



The impression was that no one be- 

 lieved that Mr. Muth adulterated honey, 

 in fact, that Mr. Muth's well-earned 

 reputation placed him above suspicion. 



Dr. Mason laughingly remarked that 

 he thought in Mr. Muth's case. Dr. 

 Wiley was a little mistaken, and that 

 bee-keepers didn't have much confidence 

 in his statements. 



Mr. Muth— One label mentioned in 

 Dr. Wiley's report did not read as my 

 label reads at all. 



E. R. Root— If this fraud has been 

 practiced in one case, it is altogether 

 likely it has in other cases. 



Mr. Muth said his friends know very 

 well that he never adulterated honey. 

 He told about a customer to whom he 

 had been sending a carload of honey 

 every four or five weeks for several 

 years, with entire satisfaction. After 

 Prof. Wiley's report came out, that some 

 of his honey had been adulterated, his 

 customer wrote that this time the honey 

 was not satisfactory, and he would have 

 an analysis made at once. To this, Mr. 

 Muth had no objection, only he was 

 afraid that he would send the samples 

 to Dr. Wiley, in which case he had no 

 doubt that he would have found them 

 adulterated also. Fortunately, however, 

 they were sent to a chemist in Pittsburg, 

 and found to be strictly pure. 



Dr. Wiley thought, in his case, the 

 goods had doubtless been counterfeited, 

 and instanced such a case in canned 

 goods. 



A recess was taken at this time, and 

 after again calling to order, Dr. Mason 

 stated that during the recess Prof. 

 Wiley had requested him to invite the 

 members of the convention to call on 

 him in the northeast corner of the Gov- 

 ernment Building, where he had charge 

 of a chemical laboratory. 



(Continued next week.) 



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