. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Thou Shalt not Adulterate. So general, so persistent and so demorali- zing liave adulterations become, that astrin- gent law against all such is demanded alike in the interests of common humanity, com- mon honesty and common healthfulness. The Chicago Tribune of Feb. 23, contains an article calling upon the Mayor and City Council to " appoint competent and honest persons to act as detectives of the adulte- rated groceries and provisions, sold now by almost all the retail grocers. The poorer class of citizens are being actually poisoned, —slowly b
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Thou Shalt not Adulterate. So general, so persistent and so demorali- zing liave adulterations become, that astrin- gent law against all such is demanded alike in the interests of common humanity, com- mon honesty and common healthfulness. The Chicago Tribune of Feb. 23, contains an article calling upon the Mayor and City Council to " appoint competent and honest persons to act as detectives of the adulte- rated groceries and provisions, sold now by almost all the retail grocers. The poorer class of citizens are being actually poisoned, —slowly but certainly,—the flour, the sugar, the coffee, the tea, the milk, the butter—al- most everything sold to them in the shape of an edible—is adulterated by poisonous or injurious ; * * * "Honest and faithful as well as competent men should be immediately appointed as detec- tives, and sellers of adulterated food should be punished by fine and imprisonment, their licenses revoked, and poisoned goods de- ; It cannot be denied that these are facts which demand the attention of every citizen. In answer to our demand for honest pro- duction of honey and a law against the adulteration of it—an Eastern writer on what he is pleased to call "the coming war," makes fun of the idea, and cites the oleo- margarine butter-fraud as a sample of the good done by fraudulent imitations. He says that he has a friend who is making twenty tons of this vile trash (imitation butter) per day, and that he could sell 40 tons per day if he could only manufacture that much. This writer then endorses a prediction concerning its " future," viz : " that within a year every commission house in New York will open theirdoors to receive it, place it by the side of the pure article, and advocate its sale, because, forsooth, they can make a better profit on its sale !" He then defiantly alludes to glucosed honey, and says that we may substitut
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