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honey 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 TSTovember 1, 1885, 

 page 738, 1 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- 

 honey 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 '. 

 " In 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. Root. 



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 (834), 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, that 



