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Show Rare Sugar Found in Honey. Investigation of certain stores of crystallized honey found in various places in Pennsylvania where the bees had died from starvation led to the discovery of a quantity of rare sugar, known as melezitose, which has been extracted and purified and placed at the disposal of the bureau of chemistry. chem-istry. The weekly news letter of the department of agriculture says that melezitose is one of the rarest sugars. Minute quantities of It have been available avail-able to men of science for many years, but the supply has never been sufficient suffici-ent to permit of extensive experimentation. experimen-tation. Now the United States department de-partment has several kilograms. |