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adulterated stuff hurt us as bee-keepers? 

 I think we have pretty well settled that 

 Karo corn syrup, and corn syrup of all 

 sorts, was a damage to us; and when it 

 has come that they must put on the 

 label that it is so much glucose— you 

 don't see it printed glucose, because the 

 people would not stand glucose, but 

 they will stand "corn syrup" — but if on 

 the label there is such a percent corn 

 syrup, the people won't take that. But 

 I would give more for five words of 

 testimony from a man like Mr. Arnd, 

 who knows what has been done, than 

 for all the theories. 



Mr. Arnd — In selling honey to the 

 grocery trade, especially to the whole- 

 sale grocery trade, we are compelled 

 to sign an agreement that the honey that 

 we. sell to them, that we bottle, is put 

 up according to the pure food law. 

 How are we dealers going to protect 

 ourselves so that we can sign these 

 agreements without testing? Don't you 

 think that the bee-keepers that supply 

 us with the honey ought to furnish us 

 with the same agreement, that the honey 

 that they send to us will stand the pure- 

 food test, and so right along the line, so 

 that the dealers, grocery men, the re- 

 tail men, and every one all along the 

 line, can go back to the original bee- 

 keeper if there is any trouble? I think 

 the dealers ought to have some pro- 

 tection, because we have to sign an 

 agreement that the honey that we furn- 

 ish the wholesale grocery houses is up 

 to the pure food test, and they have to 

 furnish the same thing to the retail 

 grocery trade. 



Dr. Bohrer — I wrote the question, and 

 what induced me to write it was, there 

 has been quite an effort among bee- 

 keepers (and I feel a deep interest my- 

 self in it) as to how to dispose of our 

 product, and I have become convinced 

 that one thing that caused slow sale of 

 honey was that the people were sus- 

 picious that both comb and extracted 

 honey were impure, and were an arti- 

 ficial product. All the advertising that, 

 the bee-keepers have been able to do 

 up to the present time has been inef- 

 fectual. An organization sprang into ex- 

 istence in this city, I think it was, and 

 some money was paid in. I did not take 

 stock in it, did not become a member, for 

 the reason that I was not an extensive 

 producer of honey, having but few col- 

 onies ; 3'et I felt an interest in the matter, 

 and hoped that something would come 



of it; but I will be honest, I did not 

 have any faith in any good results grow- 

 ing out of it, I then believed, and I be- 

 lieve now, that what the people wanted 

 was a pure food law, and when the peo- 

 ple understand that no man dare to put 

 a label "Pure Honey" upon any package, 

 and put it upon the market and sell it, 

 when it is other than pure honey — that, 



1 think, will undoubtedly increase the 

 sale of both comb and extracted honey. 

 The people today believe that 4-5 of 

 everything that goes on to the market 

 in the shape of honey is bogus; that it is 

 adulterated; that glucose is largely fed 

 to bees, and that they store it in the 

 combs. No longer ago than last winter 

 at our State bee-keepers' convention in 

 Kansas, I offered $500 to any man who 

 would bring 2 sections of comb honey 

 that was made of artificial comb and 

 filled with artificial honey. One man 

 said he had it at home, and brought in 



2 sections. I appointed a committee im- 

 mediately, being President, and I asked 

 him to aid me m the selection of the 

 committee, so that no injustice should 

 be done and that he would get his $500. 

 The committee said: "These two sec- 

 tions are not alike at all, and if they 

 were manufacured by a machine they 

 would be just alike; they would have to 

 be." Well, he thought they were both 

 artificial, but one had been made by one 

 set of molds and the other in another 

 set! Then the question naturally arose, 

 How many molds would have to be 

 obtained in order ot make each section 

 different? It can't be done. It is an 

 impossibility. When the people come to 

 understand this law, they will say: 

 "Here, it is more than any man dare do 

 to combine glucose with honey, perhaps 

 put % honey or 1-5 honey and the bal- 

 ance glucose, and label it honey and put 

 it on the market." If he labels it honey 

 and glucose, then that is another matter ; 

 but people want pure honey, "both comb 

 and extracted. These side-issues and 

 questions as to what the Government 

 rnay ultimately define as honey and a le- 

 gitimate article to put on the market, 

 are not fully determined, but when peo- 

 ple learn the effect of this law, that glu- 

 cose cannot enter into a package of 

 honey, whether comb honey or put up in 

 sealed packages, buckets, jars or any- 

 thing ; that they can buy honey and know 

 it is honey; that there will be a United 

 States officer to test it, and if it is not 

 pure, the man's brand being on the pack- 



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