Times change

[chris]

‘Larousse Agricole’ is an encyclopaedia used by agricultural engineers. I was looking through the 1921 edition and under honey found the following:

Fraud:
A fraudulent process used by indelicate beekeepers is to make the bees consume, and stock in their comb, ordinary sugar, distributed by feeding syrup.

[fatshark]

I'm not sure they're all that different. Hasn't some imported honey been impounded as being little more than syrup? I seem to remember reading somewhere that sugar provided to beekeepers during the war was dyed to prevent this ...