. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 122 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Apri deteriorated by age as to have ac- quired an unwholesome and repul- sive odor; that a number of these cans contained from one to ten dead bees, which floated out first when the liquefied honey was being poured out, and which contained so much sedi- ment that some of it required strain- ing; and last, but not least, thai the cans were not marked as to the amount of their contents, but sold upon the basis of containing 60 pounds of honey, and that some of them were short in weight as much as 1J4 pounds! Now, what would you
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 122 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Apri deteriorated by age as to have ac- quired an unwholesome and repul- sive odor; that a number of these cans contained from one to ten dead bees, which floated out first when the liquefied honey was being poured out, and which contained so much sedi- ment that some of it required strain- ing; and last, but not least, thai the cans were not marked as to the amount of their contents, but sold upon the basis of containing 60 pounds of honey, and that some of them were short in weight as much as 1J4 pounds! Now, what would you say if you were told that this shipment of honey had been received from one of the largest producers of extracted honey? Such management, methods and conditions surrounding the market- ing of honey should be checked by federal law, inasmuch as a State law would be only a local remedy and not sufficiently far-reaching unless en- acted by all the States. But even a State law on such a basis would have a salutary effect. Bee inspectors could be required to report violations. There is absolutely no excuse for marketing dead bees and sediment intermixed with an article sold as pure extracted honey. Neither is there an excuse for placing white honey in cans which are not abso- lutely clean inside and not free from all traces of buckwheat honey previ- ously packed in them, and selling the article for pure white honey. While the use of old cans should be permissible, provided they are abso- lutely clean on the inside, it would seem that their use should not be permitted unless they are also made to appear clean on the outside. With a little cleansing powder and a moist or wet cloth a rusty can may in a lit- tle while be given the appearance of a new and clean can. Unclean cans, be the cans old or new, should not be tolerated, and this restriction should apply also to the outside of the cans. It is an easy matter to polish rusty cans in fairly good condition. Cans should be free on the
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