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compound, adorned with the name of golden syrup, golden 

 drip, etc. 



837. But a slight prejudice remains in tlie 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 4 i to 5 cents 

 per pound. In California, excellent honey Is now sold for 3 

 cents ( * ) per pound. This state of aflairs 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 be a greater 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 is in 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 Sau Diego, Cal. flrm, who 

 offered extracted honey ( October Ist, 1886 ) , as low as 3 K cents per pound) 

 with a discount of 3 per cent . on car load lots . 



