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the sides will drain into this cavity, when it may be 

 dipped out, leaving the crystals nearly or quite dry, the 

 condition depending upon the temperature. This grained 

 honey may then be used in many ways, instead of sugar. 

 It may also be drained by placing it upon a sieve. 



ADULTERATION OF HONEY. 



The extent to which fraud has been carried in respect 

 to honey, demands the attention of all honest bee-keepers. 

 When honey was retailing for from 25 to 50 cents per lb., 

 there was a temptation to adulterate it with cane sugar, 

 which was harmless in a sanitary point of view ; but the 

 reduction in the price of honey renders this form of fraud 

 unprofitable. The evil which we are now called upon to 

 combat, is the use of grape sugar and glucose.* It is 

 gratifying to notice how promptly the effort to introduce 

 the practice of feeding grape sugar to bees, has been met 

 by Mr. Dadant, Dr. Shearer, and others. I observe with 

 pride, the firm stand taken by the " American Bee Jour- 

 nal " against this threatening evil. It is possible to feed 

 grape sugar to bees for their own use, and yet keep our 

 surplus honey uncontaminated ; but in this, as in the use 

 of comb-foundation for boxes, I am disposed to take radi- 

 cal ground and protest against anything that gives a color 

 of suspicion to our products. In order that consumers, 

 and dealers as well, may be able to detect adulteration, a 

 few facts concerning it may not be out of place. Let me 

 say, first, that honorable dealers have it in their power to 

 seek out perfectly reliable producers, and establish a lucra- 

 tive trade on the basis of unadulterated products. The 

 first fact to be understood is, that all granulated or 

 candied honey is presumably pure. The natural infer- 



* While grape sugar and glucose are chemical]; the same, the articles bearing 

 these names In cmmerce are quite unlike. Commercial glucose, produced from 

 etarch b; the action of acids, Is a thick lemi-liiiuid, very inferior in sweetness. 



