Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1878-10-29
Honen nnd Marketin0 N.

The subject of honey and marketing
honey is one that concerns nearly every
bee.ieeper throughout the land; and very
properly. too, because in these, aside from
pleasure, rests the Just reward OF study
and labor; for it is fallacy to think, with
gu, study and labor in bee-kcepiug, as In all
other pursuits, great results can DC accom-
plished. In marketing honey, two points
should never be iorgotten-thRt a good
article in an attractive form will always
command the highest price, the best ropu'
tatiou, and a steady demand.
We see these facts illustrated every
day. The conlectioner asserts and CLASH
6es his candies and fruits, in fact, arrang-
es everything in his store in the most
tempting style to oAptiyate human taste
and appetite. The druggist adorDs his
packages Of powders with Autographs OF
beautiful women; his toilet soaps are
put up in delicately perfumed boxes; and
thus it is in every branch of human In
dustry-the great aim Of the knowing
oues" is to make things look attractive.
At the present time, in large cities par
ticularly, there is more demand Tor comb
honey in small frames and boxes than Tor
extracted. This result is due, IN great
measure, to the frauds that were prac,iced
in former years by manufacturers OF what
was called strained" honey.
Extracted honey Is the pureSt honey
possible, and physicians have often de-
nounced the idea Of eating honey and
comb also; and when the useless and In
furious effects of eating comb are gener-
aiiy understood, we shall shrink from cat
isg it as we would from eating glass.
Extracted honey may be eaten at all
times with perfect IMMUNITY. Our jew
ish friends use honey in many oil their
religious rites, particularly in the Feast Of
the Passover, and so strict are they in re-
gard to its purity, that the price to DO
paid is no object the rabbns instructthem
to buy candied honey as a more complete
precautionary measure against Its imPur-
lty.
And when we consider that pure honey
is the very essence of flowers and plants,
in which we are told there is remedy
for every disease, surely We cannot doubt
the happy combination of honey and med
icire. The Scripture tells US, in many
passages, of the wonderful efficacy OF hon.
ey as food and medicine. And | believe,
as the treatment of disease becomes more
and more rational, so will the value OF
honey as a medicine become more and
more apparent. Honey has generally
been looked upon as luxury. The price
has been considered high; the consequence
is that fashionable golden syrups have
been filling the place that honey ought to
occupy, and which honey is now fast su-
perseding as the injurious effects Of these
syrups become more generally known.
We have often wondered what discolored
our teeth after eating certain syrups and
drinking tea. Can We doubt but that it
was the chemical action of the acids used
in the manufacture of these syrups? How
often it has been proved by analysis that
these syrups are adulterated with injurl-
GUS chemicals. In order to give them
that bright color so inviting TO look at
while pure extracted honey is as free from
all impurity as the dewdrOps of morning,
and | believe the time is not far distant
when the use Of honey in every nome will
become as common as "household words. "
Essay read before the Blue Grass Bee
keepers Association, by VIM. Williamson