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to say that foul brood only occurs by 

 inoculation. Scientists well know that 

 "blood-poison " is the result of a special 

 ferment, whereby a virus is developed in 

 some part of the animal economy. In a 

 similar way foul brood virus is gener- 

 ated incidentally. 



We have seen Darwin elaborating the 

 great scientific doctrine of evolution — in 

 life, in disease, in society, in politics, in 

 religion ; Pasteur, demolishing all that 

 is hypothetical in the process of fermen- 



except by inoculation, any more than 

 corn can be made to grow without plant- 

 ing the seed — philosophically, a wonder- 

 fully awkward comparison. Corn is 

 the fruit of a seed — the germ being re- 

 produced ; foul brood is a virus which is 

 generated by the evolution of organic 

 matter, changing the organism of the 

 soil in which it grows — the soil changed 

 to "seed" — and all ends in further 

 changes. 

 Richford, N. Y. 



Michigan State Building at the World's Columbian Exposition, in 1893. 



tation, classifying his "anaerobies" and 

 " aerobies," demonstrating that fermen- 

 tation was " life without air," and 

 elucidating the phenomena of lactic, 

 butric, and acetic fermentation, and, 

 again, dismissing to the limbo of ex- 

 ploded hypthesis the doctrine of sponta- 

 neous generation, and foretelling the 

 results of bacterial processes in the dis- 

 orders known as the "cattle plague," 

 the "vine plague," and the "fowl 

 cholera." 



It has been promulgated that foul 

 brood cannot be brought into existence 



Chemical Analysis & Honey Adulteration 



PKOF. A. J. COOK. 



It is well known that sucrose or cane 

 sugar is chemically distinct from glu- 

 cose ; that unlike glucose it will not 

 reduce the copper salts, and has a strong 

 right-handed rotation. The nectar of 

 flowers is largely cane sugar. 



Commercial glucose reduces the copper 

 salts, and because of the presence of 

 dextrose, gives a right-handed rotation. 



