Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-11-11

HONEY AND MARKETING IT.

The subject of honey and marketing
honey is one that concerns nearly every
bee keeper 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
out study and labor in Bookkeeping. as in
all other pursuits, great results can be ac-
| complished In making honey, two points
| should never be forgotton-that good
article in an attractive form will always
command the highest price, the best rep
utation, and a steady demand. 8i
We see these facts illustrated every day.
The confectioner asserts and Classics his
candies and fruits, in fact, arranges every
thing in his store in the most tempting
style to captivate human taste and appe-
tte. The druggist adorns his packages
of powders with Autographs OF beautiful
women; his toilet soaps are put up in del
icatelv perfumed boxes and thus it is in
every branch of human industry--the
great aim of the "knowing ones" is 10
make things look attractive.
At the present time, in large cities par
ticularly, there is more demand for comb
honey in small frames and boxes than for
extracted. This result Is due in great
measure, to the frauds that were practiced
in former years by manufacturers OF what
was called strained honey"
Extracted honey is the purest honey
possible, many 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 general
ly understood, we shall shrink from eat
ing it as we would from eating glass.
Extracted honey may be eaten at all
times with perfect impunity. Our Jewish
friends use honey in many OF their relig-
ious rites, particularly in the Feast Of the
Passover, and so strict are they in regard
to its purity, that the price to be paid is
no object-the rabbis instruct them to buy
candied honey as more complete precau-
tionary measure against its impurity.
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
icine. The Scripture tells US, in many pas
sages, OF the wonderful efficacy of honey
as food and medicine. And l believe, as
the treatment of diseases 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 a luxury. The price
has been considered high; the conse-
quence is that fashionable golden syrups
have been filling the place that honey
ought to occupy. and which honey is now
fast superseding 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 injurious chemicals. In order to
give them that bright color so inviting to
look at-while pure extracted honey Is as
free from all mpurity as the dewdrOps Of
morning, and believe the time is not tar
distant when the use OF honey in every
home will become as common as "house-
hold words. Essay read before the Blue
Grass Beekeepers' association, by Vim.
Williamson.