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refused to buy our honey at anything 

 like a fair price, and sent away from 

 home and bought honey almost unfit for 

 use. We could not understand how this 

 was, until, by examination, we found it 

 contained only syrup made from brown 

 sugar. Then the next thing was, how 

 was it produced ? 



We went to work — built feeders, and 

 made the test,feeding about 6 pounds of 

 syrup made from granulated syrup per 

 day. The Result was as pretty looking 

 " honey" as you ever put eyes on, and 

 capped over beautifully. This was done 

 after the end of the spring honey-flow. 



It was put on exhibition in the drug- 

 store of Reeves & Co., and admired by 

 everybody, and we could readily have 

 sold every pound of it for 15 cents per 

 pound ; but we did not, and informed 

 them that it was simply syrup sealed 

 and capped by bees. It was simply 

 syrup, without the taste of honey to it ! 

 Now let me say : The dishonest bee- 

 keeper is the fellow to blame for all this 

 hue and cry of adulterated honey. 



I had about 250 pounds of comb 

 honey this year, and have sold all I had 

 to spare at 15 to 20 cents per pouud, 

 and right in the face of adulterated 

 honey sold by our grocers. In some in- 

 stances the adulterated honey has been 

 sold by being represented as "Reeves'" 

 or "Blades'" honey. 



A neighbor came to me and said, 

 " What is the matter with your honey ?" 

 I said, "Nothing wrong that I know of." 



"Well, we have some honey that was 

 bought as your honey, and it is unfit to 

 eat." 



The truth was, we had not sold a 

 single pound at that time. 



Now how are we to get rid of the dis- 

 honest bee-keeper. When you get rid 

 of him, the battle is won. 



Let every honey-producer put his 

 private stamp on honey, and guarantee 

 the purity of the same. 



Carmi, Ills., Nov. 19, 1892. 



The Present Congress and the 

 " Paddock Pure Food Bill." 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BY 8. H. MALLORY. 



I wish to offer one or two suggestions 

 on the subject of adulteration. Messrs. 

 Cook and Newman advocate the enact- 

 ment of a national law against adultera- 

 tion of honey, etc. • I agree that we 

 should have such a law, not only against 

 honey adulteration, but other farm pro- 



ducts as well, and I have been working 

 for years to get such a law. If you 

 have watched the proceedings of Con- 

 gress, you are probably aware that a 

 bill of that nature was introduced in the 

 Senate during the last session of Con- 

 gress ; was passed by that body, and is 

 now on the calendar of the House, 

 known as the "Paddock Pure Food 

 Bill." If sufficient pressure is brought 

 to bear on our next house of Represen- 

 tatives, by farmers and bee-keepers, it 

 will probably become a law before the 

 close of the next session. 



Would it not be well for Prof. Willits, 

 or some one of our apiarian friends at 

 Washington, to look this Bill over, if 

 not already familiar with it, and see if 

 it does not cover the ground, and so 

 prevent the trouble and delay of prepar- 

 ing and introducing anew Bill ? It looks 

 to me that way. 



As there is considerable opposition to 

 this Bill, in certain quarters, it will be 

 necessary for bee-keepers to make a 

 general move on Congress, and send in 

 such a flood of petitions and personal 

 letters that our friends in the House 

 will be convinced that we mean business. 

 That is the kind of encouragement they 

 need, if we expect to get anything done. 



Hon. H. H. Hatch, of Missouri, was 

 chairman of the Committee on Agricul- 

 ture in the last House, and I think he 

 has been returned, so he will probably 

 have the handling of this Bill, and can 

 do much to forward its passage. 



It seem to me that the North Ameri- 

 can Bee-Keepers' Association, soon to 

 meet in Washington, should take up 

 and thoroughly discuss this question, 

 and take some decisive action in the 

 direction indicated above. This is a 

 subject that affects the pocket of every 

 bee-keeper who produces a pound of 

 honey to sell, and when the time comes 

 for action, there should be a general 

 rally all along the line, to the rescue of 

 our chosen pursuit from the hands of 

 the villainous adulterators. 



Decatur, Mich. 



Your Neighbor Bee-Keeper 



— have you asked him or her to subscribe 

 for the Bee Journal ? Only $1.00 will 

 pay for it regularly to new subscribers 

 from now to Jan. 1, 1894 ! And, be- 

 sides, you can have Newman's book on 

 " Bees and Honey " as a premium, for 

 sending us two new subscribers. Don't 

 neglect your neighbor ! See page 781. 



