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ADULTERATING COMB AND LIQUID 

 HONEY. 



IS THERE SUCH A THING AS MAN UKACTU KKl) HON- 

 EY AND MANUFACTUUED EGGS V 



fplIIE following letter was t'orwardetl to 

 ^ us through the kindness of the pub- 

 ■>^ lisher of the ihnermin Grocer, witli an 

 expression that 1 should answer it for 

 publication : 



Editor American trroci'/;— Will yoii be kind enough 

 to give me information about manufactured honey, 

 if there is such a thing"/ I tliinlc you have pulilisli- 

 ed articles on it in your iiaper, but I have failed to 

 see them. If you will give me the numbers of y(>ur 

 paper that have contained the articles, and where I 

 can g-et them, or answer this through your paper, 

 you will oblige. Also, is there such a thing- as man- 

 ufactured eg-gs? .J. H. White. 



Iiridg:eport, Ct., Oct. 26, 1880. 



In response to the above re(iuest we sent 

 the following reply, Miiich was in the Avicr- 

 ican Grocer for Nov. 11 : 



We are very glad indeed to answer the por- 

 tion of the above that refers to our branch 

 of agricultural industry, especially as the 

 honey-business is getting to l)e a branch of 

 no mean pretensions. When liquid honey 

 sold at from 20 to 25 cents per pound, and 

 glucose, or corn syrup, was worth only from 

 5 to 6 cents per pound, there was a great 

 temptation toward adulteration ; and eight 

 or ten years ago it was probably a fact that 

 a great portion of the liquid honey in glass 

 jars and tmnblers to be found in our mar- 

 kets, was more or less adulterated. Xow, 

 however, when liquid honey is sold at from 

 X to 10 cents retail, and o to 7 cents whole- 



sale, there is but little inducement to adul- 

 terate with glucose, especially as the tiuality 

 of glucose at all tit for the purpose is worth 

 from 4A to o cents per pound. On this ac- 

 coimt I believe there is but very little honey 

 to be found on our markets now that is adul- 

 terated. Perhaps I may add, that a good many 

 mistakes and a good 'deal of uncharitable- 

 ness have arisen from the fact that both pure 

 honey and piu-e glucose (or corn syrup) are, 

 chemically speaking, pretty nearly the same 

 thing ; namely, grape sugar — glucose being 

 grape sugar manufactured expressly for the 

 purpose of making it retain a permanent li- 

 quid form. In California, excellent honey 

 is now sold in quantities as low as 3 cents 

 per pound. This state of affairs makes it 

 more feasible and more likely that glucose 

 should be adulterated with honey, than that 

 honey should be adulterated with glucose. 

 The present low ])rices of cane sugar, also, 

 have been discouraging to those engaged in 

 adulterating sweets. 



Bee-keepers have also! been accused' of 

 feeding theii- liees glucose, and then taking 

 it from the combs and selling it as honey. 

 This foolish piece of slander on our bee- 

 keeping brethren was probably first ^started 

 l)y some one wlio did not even know that 

 liees do not iiKikc honey— tiiey simply gather 

 it. The act of storing it iii the cells does 

 not change it in any respect. If you feed 

 the bees sugar syrup, it will be sugar syrup 

 when it is taken away from them. The 

 same is true of glucose or any other substi- 

 tute for honey. 



We now come to arlilicial comb honev. 



