l6 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 1908. 



was, however, thought wise to pass these at this time as though 

 they were pure honey and the matter has not been followed up. 



Two lots of Maine produced extracted honey were found to 

 be adulterated. One of these was from the apiary of C. G. 

 Greeley, Clinton, and found at the store of David King, Fair- 

 field. According to Mr. Greeley's explanation a part of his 

 honey made in 1907 did not have sufficient "body" and he gave 

 it greater density by adding a heavy solution of sugar to it. It 

 was not his intention to sell this for pure honey but through 

 error it was put, by an assistant into bottles labeled Pure Honey. 

 As Mr. Greeley appeared to be sincere, gave his affidavit to the 

 above facts and withdrew the goods from sale, no prosecution 

 was made. 



At the store of B. F. Curtis, Richmond, a sample of extracted 

 honey was found which contained cane sugar. It was put up 

 by H. N. Jordan of Litchfield Corner. It seems that this honey 

 was bottled by Mr. Jordan in the fall of 1906 and the sugar was 

 put in to improve the flavor which was thought to be too strong. 

 Before Mr. Jordan knew that there was any law relative to the 

 adulteration of honey, he decided that he should use no more 

 sugar in honey. Mr. Jordan made affidavit to these facts and 

 withdrew the honey from sale. No prosecution was made. 



At the store of L. O. Cowan & Company, Biddeford, a sam- 

 ple was purchased which was labeled White California honey 

 put up by the Twitchell-Champlin Company, Portland and Bos- 

 ton. This honey carried glucose in quite large amount. Cor- 

 respondence developed that the Twitchell-Champlin Company 

 formerly put glucose into their honey but had not been doing so 

 since the passage of the pure food law. They submitted a sam- 

 ple of the honey which they were then using. This was ana- 

 lyzed as No. 7089 and found to be pure and free from adultera- 

 tion. It was claimed by L. O. Cowan & Company that these 

 goods were purchased by them in October, 1907. The goods, 

 however, had a very shopworn appearance. The Twitchell- 

 Champlin Company furnished us with goods which they packed 

 in June 1906, examination of which showed them to be pure 

 honey free from adulteration. As it seemed very probable that 

 these goods were packed prior to the enactment of the law and 

 were not part of the lot delivered in October, 1907. No prose- 

 cution was made. The goods were withdrawn from sale. 



