ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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would get after any one if he attempt- 

 ed to sell bogus goods. 



When you come to extract honey in 

 large quantities, it will have as ready 

 'sale as this 90 per cent glucose and 10 

 per cent cane syrup, and it will very 

 largely supersede it. Every time you 

 say anything to the press about health, 

 throw a stone occasionally right into 

 the vender of glucose and blended 

 syrup, which I say (and make the 

 statement fearless of successful con- 

 tradiction) is not wholesome food. It 

 is only a question of time when it will 

 increase (if people keep on using it), 

 a disease of the digestive organs; it is 

 on the increase now, and has been for 

 years; we are said to be the greatest 

 dyspeptics in the world. 



Why, you go Into Europe, and they 

 are not using the corn syrup or glu- 

 cose, you will see them living on plain 

 diet; and you will see them eating lots 

 of ihoney. That is the reason they take 

 up the subject in their public schools, 

 and are teaching it there, that they 

 may have a wholesome food. 



In the Northern States, I look for 

 the matter of bee-keeping to be com- 

 pletely revolutionized. The man who 

 produces section honey need not be 

 scared; it is not going to be within our 

 lifetime. The time is coming when 

 there will be a very strong demand for 

 it; if the women, now, could be made 

 to see that it gives them a good com- 

 plexion — the use of honey — our sales 

 w^ould be increased. 



Mr. Stone — A great many doctors in 

 this city, and throughout the country, 

 are beginning to prescribe honey for 

 their patients when they have cold. 

 One of the best customers I have in 

 this city is a doctor who talks honey to 

 liis patients. A good many come to me 

 and get honey, whom he has sent. This 

 thing is growing, and if we can give 

 them a good quality of honey, instead 

 ■of glucose syrup, the health of the 

 people will be made better. I would 

 like to ask Dr. Bohrer why it is that 

 glucose is not considered so good? 



Glucose Cause of Cancer of the 

 Stomach. 



Dr. Bohrer — There is said to be more 

 of the ingredients of sulphuric acid in 

 it than in other sweets. It produces 

 eventually organic disease. I think it 

 Is the source of what is known as can- 

 <cer of the stomach. A good many per- 



sons who use considerable glucose — •" 

 when they quit the use of it and get 

 down to a diet, they get better. I 

 used occasionally to run across a case 

 of cancer of the stomach. I remember 

 a case in Indiana; a soldier of Che 

 war of 1812. I told himi I could not 

 cure it; that he should regulate his 

 diet, and I said, "Let me send you 

 some honey." I sent Ihim, I think 

 it was, a quinine bottle full of ex- 

 tracted honey; then I sent him a sec- 

 tion — a piece of our comb honey — and 

 he sent t!hat right back; he said, "I 

 cannot use that at all; but the other 

 I can use all right." Honey was ftiis 

 standing food — that and a little bread 

 — as long as he lived. The ex- 

 tracted honey was free from wax, and 

 free from all impurities. 



Mr. Becker — I see the pure food in- 

 spector is making an effort to con- 

 form to the law. I was delivering 

 honey over the city Ihere, about a 

 month ago, and I ran acro.ss two lots 

 of my honey a year old, that had been 

 inspected, and. the label date was on 

 it — the day he inspected it and found 

 it to be pure honey. That is the first 

 time I have seen any label of the in- 

 spector. 



Mr. York — I would like to know if 

 there are any persons Ihere who have 

 tried producing chunk honey, as they 

 call it in the SoutOi. If so, I would 

 like to hear from them; what they 

 have to say about it, for I think it is 

 going to be in good demand. People 

 might as well get into the band 

 wagon first as last. 



Mr. Sauer — ^I have sold quite a little 

 of it, and people like that bet- 

 ter than the other. I get 15 cents a 

 pound for it, and charge 18 and 20 

 cents for the other. The way I do is 

 to cut out a big chunk of honey, p(ut 

 it in a bucket, and fill up with ex- 

 tracted honey, and get 15 cents a 

 pound straight. 



Mr. Moore — Last season I sold sev- 

 eral Ihlindred pounds of comb honey 

 in that way. I took my imperfect, 

 leaky sections, that I could not class 

 up as No. 1 honey; cut that out, put 

 it in cans, and filled the cans up with 

 extracted honey, and sold it in from 

 10 to 50 pound lots. I got 12% cents 

 a pound that way, and sold probably 

 800 pounds of it. 



Mr. Pyles — I think if they were all 

 up around Putman, and had 200 pounds 



