tMe xkOPICAL AGRICULTURIST. 
fJUNE r, 1894. 
Autliority, 
J. H. Tucker. 
W. Wallace. 
do 
do 
J. H. Tucker. 
Organic 
matter 
not sugar. 
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Glucose. 
Sucrose. 
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cc CO ?c ^^ ic 
Sugar Cane : 
Molasses, average 
Green syrup ... 
Golden syrup ... 
Treacle 
Beet Root : 
Molasses, average 
CO 
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(3. 
a 
0) 
03 
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Honey, 
The ordinary honey of commerce is a saccharine 
substance collected by the bee (Ajns mellifica). 
In Ceylon, according to Tennent, "Bees of several 
" species and genera, some divested of stings, 
" and some in size scarcely exceeding a house-fly, 
" deposit their honey in holioAv trees, or suspend 
" their combs from a branch. A gentleman, 
" connected with the departnienj; of the Surveyor- 
" General, writes to me, that he measured a 
" honey comb, Mhich he found fastened to the 
" overhanging branch of a small tree in the 
" forest near Adam's Peak, and found it nine 
" links of his chain or about 6 feet in length, 
" and a foot in breadth, where it was attached 
" to the branch, but tapering towards the other 
! ' extremity. It was a single comh witU a layer 
" of cells on either side, but bo weiglity that the 
•' branch broke with the strain.'' 
I have not .^een any analysis of Ceylon honey, 
but Allen ha.s collated analyses of comuiercial 
honeys by Brown, Sieben, Hebner, Bell and 
Hassall which I reproduce: — 
5 
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PS o 
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6 55 
o 
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..J J.. -t.i 
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01 .s S 
. X r.- 
^ > d 2 X S _ >. 
Strength of Spirituous Liquors, 
By the sale of Food Amendment Act ] 877, the 
following were fixed as the lowest limits of 
alcoholic strength at which spirits could be sold: — 
Whisky 
Bum )■ 25 per cent under proof. 
Brandy } 
Twenty -five per cent under proof is also the 
lowest legal strength for the sale of arrack in 
Ceylon. For gin the lowest limit is 35 per cent 
under proof, 
