486 HONEY HANDLING. 
noney on the market was made by machinery, and that neither 
comb nor contents ever came from a bee-hive. So widespread 
was this falsehood, that in our journal of November 1, 1885, 
page 738, I offered $1,000 to anybody who would tell me where 
such spurious comb-honey was made. No one has ever given 
the information, neither has one ounce of manufactured comb- 
noney ever been forthcoming. It is a mechanical impossibility, 
and will, in my opinion, always remain so.... I hardly need 
add, that the above slanderous report in regard to bogus comb- 
honey was very damaging to the bee-keeping industry. It prob- 
ably obtained wider credence because one Prof. Wiley, some 
years ago, started it by what he termed a ‘scientific pleasantry ’. 
“Jn regard to the artificial eggs, I believe this will be a feat 
still more difficult to accomplish than making artificial honey- 
comb, especially if these artificial eggs are expected to hatch. 
Some of the newspapers have jocosely declared that such eggs 
would hatch, but that the chickens did not have any feathers on 
them, the invention not yet being sufficiently ‘perfected’, etc.” 
—A.I. Roor. 
838. The granulation of honey was objected to by many 
consumers, at first, from the prejudiced idea that granula- 
ted honey had been mixed with sugar. It has ceased to be 
an objection, for, in our neighborhood, nearly all honey 
consumers now know that good ripe honey generally gran- 
ulates in cold weather. But, now and then, a person is 
found who wants liquid honey, or comb honey, thinking 
that no other is pure. 
We were told that the judges at an agricultural exposi- 
tion refused to give a premium to a bee-keeper for his honey, 
because it was spoiled by granulating. These competent 
judges probably think that water is spoiled by freezing, for 
granulated honey if carefully melted ($34), is as good as 
before hardening. 
839. We have always found an easy sale for extracted 
honey among foreigners — especially German or French; 
as they have been used to granulated strained honey, 
which has been produced for centuries in almost all parts of 
Europe. Some of them are so well acquainted with it, tkat 
