258 HONEY. 
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 Ib., 
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 glficose are chemically the same, the articles bearing 
these names in ccmmerce are quite unlike. Commercial glucose, produced from 
starch by the action of acids, is a thick semi-liquid, very inferior in sweetness. 
