Lancaster. Wis., March 5, 1881.
=Test for Honey.=—Bee-keepers need a good honey test, to expose the
“rag syrup,” an admixture of honey and glucose, with which the New York
market is flooded. In every grocery, meat market and drug store there,
can be found cans of “Walker’s best honey,” labeled “Greenpoint, N.
Y.,” but there is not much honey in it. Last fall I went into a drug
store there with 4 samples of my best honey. They tested it, and what
they used turned it perfectly black. I saw one of Walker’s cans of
honey there, and asked them to test that; they did so, but the same
drugs had no effect whatever on that. They would not tell me what they
used to test it; but I would like to have a good and simple test given
in the BEE JOURNAL.