. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. J ^±^k 3<LdL British. Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Stbanoewats' Pbintino Office, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, [No. 310. Vol. XVI.] JULY 12, 1888. [Published Weekly.] â¬tnTdaxhlt ^atms, $t. ADULTERATION OF HONEY. Iu our article on page 2-'!-'S we commented on the practice of adulterating honey, and based our remarks on a table of the analysis of honey taken from the Bee- keepers' Magazine, in which it was shown that out of thirty-one samples put up by packing - houses only six were found to be pure. "We st
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. J ^±^k 3<LdL British. Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Stbanoewats' Pbintino Office, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, [No. 310. Vol. XVI.] JULY 12, 1888. [Published Weekly.] â¬tnTdaxhlt ^atms, $t. ADULTERATION OF HONEY. Iu our article on page 2-'!-'S we commented on the practice of adulterating honey, and based our remarks on a table of the analysis of honey taken from the Bee- keepers' Magazine, in which it was shown that out of thirty-one samples put up by packing - houses only six were found to be pure. "We stated that samples Nos. 57, 58, and GO, were comb honey, for thus they were described, and we think it in justice due to American comb honey to state that in an editorial, the Bee-keejiers' Magazine explains ' that this so-called comb honey was put up a la Huge, viz., a Utile piece of pure comb honey in a big jar of glucose.' Our con- temporary Gleanings notices our remarks in the article we publish below, and hints at the possibility of the whole thing being a hoax. Our article was written in the interest of bee-keepers and bee-keeping, and we have never hinted that bee-keepers ever adulterated honey, and we should repudiate such an idea quite as strongly on behalf of our American cousins as our friend the American Bee Journal does. If this report is by a hogus commissioner how did it find its way into the Bee-keepers' Magazine ! Our object is to protect the interests of bee-keepers, be they English, American, or of any other country, and we should not be doing our duty if we did not expose what we knew was doing them harm. If it is shown that the whole thing is a hoax or a trick of trade we shall give it eveiy publicity. "We always believe people to be honest until we find out the contrary, and we believe the report of the Dairy Commissioner of New Jersey to "be a genuine one ; just as we should have every confidence in the reports of our own analysts. "We d
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