Milford chronicle., 1902-06-06

TlNSLEIX
of so much stock as result OF eating
the dried cornstalks in the fields seems
to be not yet solved. We venture to
offer the following, which, while It
may be far from solving the mystery,
may still possibly point a way to It's
solution: It Is q we'll established ract
that second growth sorghum is most |
deadly poison for stock which eat Of |
It. There are instances where second |
growth corn-the shoots which spring !
up where the corn Ii cut of before the
plant had arrived at maturity-pro'
duced the same deadly results. The
why of this we do not know, for both
sorghum and the corn are perfectly
healthful foods when 81 normal
growth. May it not be that the sns'
pended growth and development OF the
corn in many fields last season owing
TO the drought and excessive heat. fol-
lowed thirty days later by conditions
which fostered q second growth, re-
suited in producing precisely the same
toxic conditions which are associated
with a second growth where the stalk
was cut Off The phenomenon OF sec
ondary polarization Of the cornhelds,
the result Of this secondary growth
during 1901, as a result Of which SEEM
lingly worthless fields Of corn were
converted into most productive ones,
was q very common one and familiar
to all our readers through the corn
belt. May not the fatalities among the
stock be connected with this faet4
ARTIFICIAL COMB HONEY.
A short time ago we incidentally re-
ferred to the manufacture Of bogus
comb honey, and, judging from the
, many letters received, we made a mis-
take in assuming that any such honey
Is made or could possibly be made,
1 and so our readers will please under
stand that there is no such fraud prac-
) ticed and that we never said there
Y was. The bee men unite in saying that
/ it is a mechanical impossibility to
2 make an artificial comb, ill It with an
S adulterated sweet and so. seal the cells
! up that such fraud could not be readi
S " detected. At the same time we have
9 before us a statement of an expert Of
the agricultural department at Wash
ington, Mr.. Charles Saylor of Dei
: AIoines, Ia, in which he refers to thii
matter as though such bogus produc
was actually being made. The be-
!, men can now so for him and convinc'
a him, as they have us, that he is in error
The item which drew forth the crit
cism was prompted not so much b
= what we had heard and read Of thi
Y assumed fraud as by the character ant
y quality Of lot Of honey which W
10 bought about that time. Assuming tina
8, this lot of honey was the pure Quil
product Of the bees, we wonder wha
y the moral condition of the members c
81 the hive must have been to have prC
duced such an abomination when
ye looked so very tempting. They mus
surely have been foragers on strang
8, grounds and eaters Of forbidden fruit
2, jewellers among the bloom Of skun
a. cabbage, henbane and ragweed, di
tillers of nectar from malignant an
Al deathly types Of the vegetable kini
ra dom. Maybe their queen was dead {
- the regular workers on a strike al
at the drones tried their hand. AnyhoN
AZ now knowing that the bees made thu
honey, the poetic sentiment vii
4 which we have always invested Il
w bee is knocked into smithereens, al
ad hereafter it, like the OK or the pig, is
ir- the earth earthly.