. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. '?^^ ^ OLDEST BEE PAPER "?AMERICA. VOL. XIX. CHICAGO, ILL., APRIL 25, 1883. No. 17. Published every Wednesday, by THOMAS G. NEWMAN, Editor and Proprietor, "Paraffine Comb" and "; It is trite but true, that while " Falsehood rides on horseback, truth travels very slowly on ; We are forcibly reminded of this upon loolj- ing over the last annual volume of Appleton's Cyclopedia, published by D. Appleton & Co., of New York. It is very evident that the compiler of that volume has been imposed upon by the n
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. '?^^ ^ OLDEST BEE PAPER "?AMERICA. VOL. XIX. CHICAGO, ILL., APRIL 25, 1883. No. 17. Published every Wednesday, by THOMAS G. NEWMAN, Editor and Proprietor, "Paraffine Comb" and "; It is trite but true, that while " Falsehood rides on horseback, truth travels very slowly on ; We are forcibly reminded of this upon loolj- ing over the last annual volume of Appleton's Cyclopedia, published by D. Appleton & Co., of New York. It is very evident that the compiler of that volume has been imposed upon by the notorious Professor Wiley, who, in June, 1881, originated the preposterous falsehood about " comb honey " being sold in New York, the combs of which were " made of para- ffine, and filled with pure glucose, by appropriate machinery," etc. On page .51, of the Cyclopaedia men- tioned, while enumerating the uses to which glucose had been put, we find the following: " Glucose is used chiefly for the manufacture of table syrups and can- dies, for brewing, as food for bees, and for artificial honey Glucose is very extensively fed to bees, which eat it with great avidity, and store it away unchanged as honey. It is also put up directly in trade as honey—with which bees have had nothing to do—being put up by means of appropriate machinery into arti- ficial combs made of ; When this pernicious falsehood first appeared, it was extensively copied by many papers all over this country, and quoted by men of learning and influence, and we endeavored to counteract it, by showing its falsity and absurdity, and calling upon its author for proof. Being hard pressed, this scientific joker admitted the ab- surdity and falsity of his " story," but consoled himself with the idea, that people in general were too thick- headed to see the " joke," as he stated in the Indiana Fanner last June, which was copied into the Bee Jouii- NAL of June
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