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him with some "real honey" and presented 

 him with a section of my best white clover 

 product. It required a great deal of ar- 

 gument on my part to convince him that 

 I also was not in "cahoots" with the food 

 adulterators. As a matter of fact there 

 has never been a pound of artificial comb 

 honey produced by any one at any time. 

 A high government food expert once made 

 the break of mentioning artificial comb 

 honey in one of his reports and he has 

 been the laughing-stock of beekeepers 

 from that day to this. Mr, A. I. Root, 

 who might be called the dean of modern 

 beekeepers, offered a thousand dollars 

 reward for a single pound of artificial 

 comb honey. This reward was offered 

 many years ago ; it still stands but has had 

 no claimant. 



But this is a digression, justified only 

 by the fact that to many folk buckwheat 

 honey is a standard for comparison just 

 as white clover is for others. The two 

 honeys do not resemble each other in the 



