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that this is romauce. He almost admits it 

 for lie gives expressiou to a passiuy thought 

 which tutted across his iiiiud, aud which he 

 ought to have detained for close exainiua- 

 tion. "I may be a visionary enthusiast.'" 

 That's what your are, Mr. Editor, in this 

 particular, without a doul it. I am down on 

 all superficial, hurried, slip-shod ways of 

 doing business. Whatever is worth doing 

 at all is worth doing well. I do not want to 

 see our apiaries filled with all kinds of cheap 

 gim-crackery, hustled up for the purpose of 

 pouring out tloods of low-priced honey on 

 the market; and running out glucose, but I 

 want to see them respectable business estab- 

 lishments, fitted up with the best appliances 

 for producing the highest (quality of honey 

 and putting it on the market in the most at- 

 tractive shape. I doubt if the actual cost of 

 honey production can be got down much 

 lower than at present, and I am sure it can- 

 not be got down low enough to run the 

 bogus article out of the market. 



How does the Editor of the Review pro- 

 pose to outrival the cheap adulterated bee 

 literature of the day? By making the best 

 as low as the worst? J3y so reducing the 

 cost of getting up a bee-journal that he can 

 give us cream at the price of very blue skim 

 milk? No, indeed. 



I think you do the bee-keeping public in- 

 justice in saying that it is almost wholly on 

 selfish grounds that they oppose adulteration. 

 It is not selfishness to demand honest deal- 

 ing between man and man. When this is 

 denied, there is that in human nature which 

 bristles up and becomes indignant. A virtu- 

 ous anger is awakei^ed. Right is right, truth 

 and equal justice ought to prevail. I shall 

 make no apologies, and take no blame to 

 myself for hating all mean frauds, al! lying 

 <jheats, all attempts to deceive the public. 

 Adulteration is just what the word means; 

 a contamination, improper, unlawful mix- 

 ture; and I believe the great mass of bee- 

 keepers oppose it because it ofl'ends their 

 moral sense, as well as liecause it touches 

 their pockets. They want a clean, honest 

 world to live and do business in. 



Neither do I believe in the policy of silence. 

 It is to my mind a species of hypocrisy to 

 keep mum about the evils that there are in 

 the world. There is an element of cowardice 

 in it as well. Either it is a fact that honey 

 is adulterated or it is not. If it is, proclaim 

 it with the voice of a trumpet. Shout it 

 from the house-tops that every buyer of a 



pound of honey may know it. Tell the 

 people to mind where and of whom they 

 buy their honey. Warn them not to get it 

 from Tom, Dick and Harry, who concoct it 

 in hole and corner glucose factories, but to 

 buy of ijpputal)le bee-keepers, who can be 

 found, who are not afraid to put "Linden- 

 l)ank Apiary," or some other well-known 

 name on their product, and who are ready 

 to pay a big fine if any adulterated article 

 can 1 )e traced to their doors. I like the princi- 

 ple embodied in Mr. Heddon's idea of a 

 trade-mark, but it is itself so easily adulter- 

 ated, rather counterfeited, that I fear it 

 would not have the desired effect. I see 

 nothing for it but for bee keepers to en- 

 lighten the public, unite to denounce and 

 frown down adulteration, take pains to pro- 

 duce as perfect an article as possible, put 

 their names to their wares, make a live and 

 proclaimed business connection with those 

 who sell for them, supply their own home 

 market in person, and trust to quality, which 

 is like blood, and "will tell." 



I like the way in which Dr. Tinker adver- 

 tises his beautiful white poplar sections. 

 He does not pretend to sell them as low as 

 the inferior brands. They are worth more, 

 and he wants more for them. In like man- 

 ner, I would have bee-keepers frankly tell 

 the public: "We cannot afford to sell this 

 A I honey at the low price at which others 

 offer a nondescript mixture of concocted 

 stuff. It is worth more and we want more 

 for it. The great majority of people will 

 get the best if it does cost more. That is 

 what we ought to educate the public up to. 

 Put me on record as opposed to going it on 

 the cheap. I am willing to pay fair value 

 for what I buy, and I want it for what I have 

 to sell. 



GuELPH, Canada. April 18th, 1891. 



Cheap Honey Easily Sold— Cane Sugar now 



as Cheap as Glucose — Cheap Honey 



Will Kill Adulteration— Trade 



Mark "No Good." 



GEO. K. WEIjLER. 



^OUR statement of basic principles 

 leaves little more to say. I don't 

 like adulteration because it curtails 

 our market, and casts suspicion on our 

 product. Cheap honey will stop it, by 

 rendering it unprofitable, it also will 

 enlarge our market indefinitely. I can 



