HONEY AS A STAPLE ARTICLE. [By H. U. Ackerman.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1983, 24 March 1885, Page 3

HONEY AS A STAPLE ARTICLE. [By H. U. Ackerman.]

Thk following fiom the Indiampolis Kvt »ing News of Dec 10, ISB4, I should like to have published in the Bee Journal, bilieving that it will l>e appieeiated. After fighting for months, the " I'iof. Wiley scientific pleasantry" it is quite lefieshmg for a bee keeper to lead in a newspaper nn article like this, sppak ing a good woid for his pursuit, and I would suggest that bee ket pels gc m i.»lly .send a copy of the life Join nil contain ing it, to their loo.il pipeia reqißSting them to copy itHONhY A MMISTIH'TK FOR BfTTTHt. " Tunes are bad and hkt ly to be woise, ' said a proinuieut meirber of the Friuklin institute te a lepoitei yestciday attemoon. " Buttci is becoming scaicei aud dearer eveiy year and it will bo beyond the reach of pooi people this winter. Unless poor people who ,-ue out of work find a substitute that is chiapei than butter, they will have to eit thru bread dry. They will not eat buttuine cr oleoinarganne ; they would turn up their noses at that, if they weie btarv ing." " What can they use, then ? " I do not know : but if some enterprising man would take hold of tin* honey <ju< I behove lie would make a foituuc. " Honey .' ' " Yes, sn ; hone}'. Then is an opinion going mound that honey is a limny Theie in \or was a bigger mistake made. It it does not, make much muscle, it ghes w,llw ,11 in tli to the whole system, mouses nil the nervous energies and gnus vigour to .ill the wt.d functions. Icm talk about honey beciuse 1 know about it. I know that most children would latlici tat biead and honey than bre.nl and bu'ter, iii*l that a pound of honuj will go as f.u is two pound of butter. Besides, homy will keip foievcr and uewi got bom oi rancid like butter does. Then look how much cheaper it is. Honey can be bought it 15 cents and 20 cents a pound, and a fair piofit nude by t ho letailei. Buttci is seldom less than 40 cents, ami this winter it will reach oo cents a pound Of comse I am only speaking of t!i" best kind of honey Buckwheat honey, which has a slight flavour, can be reta'led at a pioh'tatsl tor 8 pounds Bit, Lot' ble^s you, the people wo.jJd not eat that Only the bust is good enough for them. ' •' Could enough honey be brought into the market to substitute it for buttci ?' " Well, that ia not exactly the ques tion It is not likely that honey will supersede, butter altogether ; but just now, when wages are low and butter is getting lughi'i and higher every day, it would be a good thing if people knew that they could buy a good substitute, if it is only a temporal y one What is wanted to make it a paying one is the in troiluctiou of the bauel riade. If letail dealers would take their honey m batrelg and sell it in small quantities at the tate of about 13 cents a pound, they could make a laige piolit. You know woi king people look twice at a quaitcr befoie they spuid it on what they call a luxury. But if they thought they could buy o or 10 cents worth at a time, they would be glad of it, and they would soon learn thai honey is cheaper and preferable to butter. In the winter honey cmdies and becomes hard enontth to cut with a knife and spreid like butter, so it can be used in the same way. If ade mind for pure honey aiose, a hundred barrels could be biought into the city e\ery week all the year round, or a hundicd dozen if the demau 1 moi eased " " How about adulteration ? ' " The pnncip.ll adulteration is glucose, but it is not difficult to detect. Honey mixed with glucose will not candy at the lowest tempt rature, whercis pure honey candies very freely. Tim best way to keep honey is in those live pound Mason jais If is candies, so much the better. A little heat »vill soon liquify it, if that that isilcsiicd. If people geneially knew what a nutritious, wholesome food honey is, it would not be long before thp bee keepuis would ha-\e all they cm <!o to keep up the supply." Noitli Indiana polls. — The Ameiuaii V> ■<• Join ml.