NEW YORK LAW 297 
one time were given wide circulation in the newspapers. This 
resulted in distrust of comb honey also. The National Bee- 
keeper’s Association and the A. I. Root Co., manufacturers of 
bee-keeper’s supplies, offered large rewards for proof that comb 
honey had been successfully imitated, which helped to offset the 
bad effects to some extent. 
Since the pure food laws have been so generally enforced 
there is a returning confidence on the part of the public that 
extracted honey may be pure and the price has advanced with 
the increased demand until it is now as profitable as comb honey 
production. Several vears time will be required to overcome 
the bad effects of the unfortunate conditions of other days. 
While the general laws of the nation and of the various States 
that apply to weights and labels of food products include honey, 
some States have passed specific laws prohibiting the adulteration 
or misbranding of honey. 
New York Law.—The statute of New York is worded as 
follows: 
Defining Honey.—The terms “honey,” “liquid or extracted honey.” 
“strained honey” or “pure honey,’ as used in this article shall mean 
the nectar of flowers that has been transformed by, and is the natural 
product of the honey-hee, taken from the honeycomb and marketed in a 
liquid, candied or granulated condition. 
Relating to Selling a Commodity in Imitation or Semblance of Honey— 
No person or persons shall sell, keep for sale, expose or offer for sale, any 
article or product in imitation or semblance of honey branded as “ honey,” 
“liquid or extracted honey,” “ strained honey,” or “ pure honey ” which is 
not pure honey. No person or persons, firm, association, company or cor- 
poration, shall manufacture, sell, expose, or offer for sale any compound 
or mixture branded or labeled as and for honey which shall be made up 
of honey mixed with any other substance or ingredient. There may he 
printed on the package containing such compound or mixture statement 
giving the ingredients of which it is made; if honey is one of such in- 
gredients it shall he so stated in the same size type as are the other in- 
eredients, but it shall not be sold, exposed for sale, or offered for sale as 
honey: nor shall such compound or mixture he branded or labeled with the 
word “honey ” in any form other than as herein provided; nor shall any 
product in semblance of honey, whether a mixture or not, be sold, exposed, 
or offered for sale as honey, or branded or labeled with the word “ honey ” 
unless such article is pure honey. 
The value of such a law in safeguarding the bee-keeper’s 
market and protecting the consumer against frand can searcely 
