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compound, adorned with the name of golden s, up, golden 
drip, etc. 
837. But a slight prejudice remains in .fe minds of 
some buyers, against honey, unless they are acquainted 
with the producer. This prejudice has been helped by idle 
writers whose sensational stories found their way in the 
newspapers, concerning the supposed manufacture of arti- 
ficial comb-honey. 
Alas! that so many sensible people should give credit 
to such ridiculous canards! A minute’s examination of 
a sealed honey comb, will convince any sensible person 
of the utter impossibility of its artificial manufacture. Nev- 
ertheless, we knew of grocers who bought and sold beauti- 
ful comb-honey believing it to be artificial, on the strength 
of those newspaper stories. These willful and silly lies 
were finally put an end to by an authoritative article in the 
‘* American Grocer’? of November 10th, 1886, concerning 
manufactured honey and manufactured eggs. We quote a 
few passages of this lengthy article: 
‘Glucose at all fit for adulteration is worth from 43 to 5 cents 
per pound. In California, excellent honey is now sold for 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. We now come 
to artificial comb-honey. The only way in which it is possible 
to put a spurious article of comb-honey on the market would be 
by feeding the bees glucose or some other substitute; and 
there would beagreater probability of this being done were it not 
for the fact that the bees must consume a very large quantity of 
honey or other sweets to enable them to secrete a very small 
quantity of white wax from which the comb is made.... 
“Our last point isin reply to the newspaper statements that 
were so widespread a year or two ago, to the effect that our comb 
© We have before our eyes the price-list of a San Diego, Cal. firm, who 
offered extracted honey (October lst, 1886), as low a3 3 cents per pound; 
with a discouxt of 3 per cent. on car load lots. 
