. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 146 Feb. 21, 1907 American ^ee'Journal etc , and making honey-butter on a large scale. My goods were all pure, and were highly flavored with extracted honey. I used 19,000 to 20,000 pounds of extracted honey a year. I alvfays bought the most of my honey every fall from other bee-keepers, for the honey I bought from them was pure, only a little dark. The people are very much dis- appointed here because they can not buy any more honey-butter. They say they like it better than pure honey. I always sold honey- butter for 25 cents a pound. The Hepburn Pure
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 146 Feb. 21, 1907 American ^ee'Journal etc , and making honey-butter on a large scale. My goods were all pure, and were highly flavored with extracted honey. I used 19,000 to 20,000 pounds of extracted honey a year. I alvfays bought the most of my honey every fall from other bee-keepers, for the honey I bought from them was pure, only a little dark. The people are very much dis- appointed here because they can not buy any more honey-butter. They say they like it better than pure honey. I always sold honey- butter for 25 cents a pound. The Hepburn Pure Food Law is a little too strict. I think the law will break up many honest men in business, if I understand it. Oklahoma. Whether the pure food law is to be com- mended or condemned because " Oklahoma " has " gone out of business" is a question worth considering. It is said that in some places in Europe, about an ounce of honey is added to each pound of butter, and that this addition makes the butter more acceptable to most tastes.' If the " honey-butter " in q ues- tion were a compound of this character, and sold for just what it was, there certainly was nothing wrong in the transaction, and it is hard to see how the pure food law would in- terfere with it. At the most, it could only in- sist that the label should be an honest one, and if some other name than " honey-butter " would more accurately describe the product, objection ought not to be made to such change. At this distance it may not be entirely safe to pass judgment, but there may be no harm in saying just how the matter looks judged from the information given. The statement is that people like "honey-butter" "better than pure ; That is as much as to say it is not pure honey, and the only thing the law probably does in the case is to make the product sell for just what it is. One would think that "Oklahoma" would hardly need to go out of bus
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