Year: 1878

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.