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San Francisco. I put my honey in 10-galloti 

 tins with my label on it, showing it to De 

 from the producer in California, and took it 

 with me to Texas. I had no difficulty in 

 persuading dealers that they were getting a 

 genuine article, and thas created a good de- 

 mand for our honey. 



The next season the orders came in freely, 

 but the bees that season, and the following 

 one, yielded almost no liouoy, and what there 

 was, was of a poor quality, as it usually is 

 here when scarce. This disconcerted all our 

 plans, and now, without going back there as 

 a honey dealer, myself, I could not sell a full 

 crop of honey. To hold one's custom, it 

 seems necessary to be near enough to give it 

 one's personal attention. 



Thanks to Byron Walker for his stating 

 the condition of the honey market in Cincin- 

 nati. It would seem a solid basis of business 

 to have a Muth & Son in every large city, who 

 have suificient integrity and tact to so select 

 and put honey on the market that the public 

 may know just where to go to get what they 

 want; then glucose and syrups would be sold 

 pure, and while we would not be resisting an 

 evil, we would be overcoming evil with good: 

 although I think a few heavy lines of adul- 

 terators would have healthful influence in 

 working up a legitimate trade. 



I still think the putting of our honey in a 

 retail package and sending it as direct as 

 possible to the consumer, is most desirable, 

 if we can have the proper dealer in each city 

 to act as a kind of balance wheel, selecting 

 and selling according to merit, so that when 

 there is a failure in one locality, he may buy 

 a choice article in another to supply the de- 

 mand. What shall we do, advertise for such 

 dealers? 



\'entura, Cal., May 29, 1891, 



Compel Adulterators to Label Their Goods. 



OTTf) J. E. UKHAN. 



'URRAH for W. F. Clarke! He struck 

 the nail on the head in regard to 

 adulteration of honey. If the bee- 

 keeper had to come down on his price in or- 

 der to kill adulteration, he would kill his 

 business before adulteration would even feel 

 sore. It is an utter impossiliility to produce 

 and sell honey as cheap as glucose. It is 

 also impossible to put a stop to the making 

 of the "stuff," as the law gives nobody a 

 right to stop anybody's business, so long as 



it is a legitimate business, and here is where 

 the point comes in that moat all your writers 

 overlooked. There is a law that compels 

 oleomargarine manufacturers to sell their 

 product under label, with the proper name 

 of the article on. This very same law could 

 be used to compel adulterators of honey to 

 label their product as such and sell it as 

 such. Make them call the child by the right 

 name. If it is a pure angel, call it an angel 

 of the light, and if it is a devil's sprout, call 

 it a devil I Compel the manufacturers to tell 

 the people what they make and offer for sale, 

 and then let the consumer choose what he 

 wants. If he chooses to eat glucose, or 

 honey and glucose mixed, let him do so. If 

 he wants pure honey, he knows how and 

 where to get it. Nobody will be hurt by this 

 policy. We cannot stop anybody from imi- 

 tating anything. Imitations will be made 

 and sold as long as this world stands. Let 

 anything which is good and useful come on 

 the market and it will be only a short time 

 when imitations of the article are put out to 

 sell, which are made cheaper, and, of course, 

 are of inferior quality, and may be sold a 

 trifle cheaper. This we know to be a fact, 

 and we can't stop it so long as they don't 

 claim their imitations as genuine. The sum 

 and substance of the whole cry about adul- 

 teration is, according to my opinion,: Let 

 the Union find out all th§ manufacturers of 

 adulterated honey and compel them, by law, 

 to label their product with its proper name 

 and let it be sold as such. 



Thorndale, Tex., May 30, 1891. 



The National Bee-Keepers' Union not Cre- 

 ated to Prosecute Adulterators. 



THOS. G. NEWMAN. 



IRIEND HUTCHINSON:— In reply to 

 your card asking me to write for the 

 Review, what I think of the plan of 

 having the Eee-Kee?)ers' Union aid in the 

 prosecution of adulterators, making such 

 changes in the constitution as would be 

 necessary to allow it to use money for this 

 purpose, I would offer the following 

 thoughts: — 



Byron W'alker starts out by saying that 

 "the Bee-Keepers' Union ought to prosecute 

 adulterators." On page 119 he adds: "What 

 wo need is a Bee-Keepers' Union of at least 

 .'),000 members; then we can compel these 

 corporations to respect the laws enacted for 



