Since that lime steady advances have been
made in the establishment of systematic bee
culture in the United States. Bees have been
imported from all parts of the world and the
industry has reached such an extent that the
annual average yield of honey now amounts to
about $20,000,000 and beeswax about $2,000,000.
The United States imports annually about
2,500,000 pounds of honey and about 750,000
pounds of beeswax, about 95 per cent. of which
comes from Cuba, Mexico, Haiti, Salvador, Do
minican Republic and Venezuela; and all of
this regardless of the fact that according to
the census about 700,000 bee keepers, or one
in every 120 of the entire population, are en
gaged in the industry throughout the United
States.
The passage of various pure-food laws and
the establishment of a rigid inspection by
many of the importing countries have made
the marketing of adulterated honey almost an
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impossibility. No substitute
for honey, or artificial means
of preparation, have as yet
been found and for many
years. the pure product has
"beeCf a ellerated .w-.th com
mercial glucose, cane sugar-,
or invert sugar sometimes to
as great an extent as 85 per
cent. It is the opinion of
many bee keepers that the
feeding of bees with sac
charine substances for the
purpose of increasing the
production of honey should
be considered as palpable
adulteration, and that the ar
tificial coloring of the prod
,r.t by electrical means
should be so stated when it is placed on the
market.
The sage honey from California is pro
nounced by experts as an example of the pur
est, best flavored and most consistent grade
produced in the United States.
