. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Dec. 21, 1916.] THE BRITISH liEE JuUKNAL. 40'J The Fiscal (Mr. Thomas Maclcnnan) said there had been complaints against accused. The public analyst found in this particular sample per cent, of sugar. He made the very liberal allouance of per cent, as the maximum anu)unt of cane sugar ever found in genuine honey from bees fed on sugar. It was a common dodge to feed bees with sugar, but no respectable bee-keeper in Aberdeenshire would do that sort of thing. Sometimes bee-keepers required to feed their bees with sugar in the winter t
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Dec. 21, 1916.] THE BRITISH liEE JuUKNAL. 40'J The Fiscal (Mr. Thomas Maclcnnan) said there had been complaints against accused. The public analyst found in this particular sample per cent, of sugar. He made the very liberal allouance of per cent, as the maximum anu)unt of cane sugar ever found in genuine honey from bees fed on sugar. It was a common dodge to feed bees with sugar, but no respectable bee-keeper in Aberdeenshire would do that sort of thing. Sometimes bee-keepers required to feed their bees with sugar in the winter time if the stock of honey upon which the bees lived was likely to go down. Accused provided himself with a boiler for refin- ing the sugar and mixing it with the honey'. He was charging something like 2s. per lb. for sugar. There was a sub- stantial profit at that rate. He was doing a roaring trade with people in the South —with people who did not know ^him. The sugar which was refined had the honey flavour. The Sheriff: No blame is attached to the bees? The Fiscal said no blame nas attached to the bees. Money was to be made out of bees, and the genuine bee-keepers would look with scorn upon a man who would do that sort of thing. Accvised had a factory for adultering the genuine honey. The Sheriff said it was a serioiis case of adulteration. Accused would have to liay £5, with the option of thirty days' imprisonment.—From the Ahrrdcen J)aily Journal. HONEY IMPORTS. The registered value of honey imported into the United Kingdom during the month of November, 1916, was £4,168, from a return furnished to the British Bee Journ.\l by the Statistical Office, CoTTesvondents desiring an answer in the next it»ue should send questions to reach this office NOT LATER than the FIRST POST on MONDAY MORNING. Only SPECIALLY URGENT ques- tions will be replied to by post if a STAMPED addressed envelope is enclosed. All questions must be accompanied by the sender's name and a
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