266 HONEY. 
disease. In coughs, or affections of the lungs, honey 
has long been used, either in its pure state, or when com- 
bined with other remedies. It is also efficacious in the 
treatment of burns. Let the injured part be com- 
pletely moistened with liquid honey, and immediately 
covered with plenty of dry flour. This effectually ex- 
cludes the air, and materially aids in the cure. I con- 
sider this a remedy worthy of attention in every household. 
ADULTERATION OF SYRUFS, 
The use of honey on our tables has largely decreased 
since the cheap production of sugars. The day has come, 
however, when the alarming adulteration of sugar and 
syrups, especially the latter, will arouse consumers to the 
necessity of procuring a more wholesome sweet. These 
frauds are becoming truly fearful, inasmuch as we are in- 
jured, not only pecuniarily, but in what is far more im- 
portant to us, health. The State Board of Health . 
in Michigan, conceiving the evil to be beyond farther 
toleration, has been actively engaged in determining the 
exact character of these vile productions. Dr. Kedzie, 
of the Michigan Agricultural College, has analyzed syrups 
purchased of reliable grocers, and fifteen out of seventeen 
samples showed the presence of lime, copperas, and free 
sulphuric acid, to an alarming degree. According to a 
statement in a respectable paper, he found in some of them 
140 grains of sulphuric acid, 30 of copperas, and 724 of 
lime, to the gallon. In the ‘existence of euch a state of 
things, it must be that an increased demand will arise for 
pure and reliable honey. 
DIFFERENT QUALITIES OF HONEY. 
The quality of honey depends materially. upon the. 
class of blossoms from which it is gathered. In our 
Northern latitudes, probably no finer flavored honey is to 
