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to. I have to explain it for five and ten minutes sometimes. They 

 say, "We want to know, because we want honey that is pure; we do 

 not want to buy So-and-So's honey, because that is manufactured 

 honey, and of course that will probably mean they do not want my 

 honey, because it is manufactured. But the belief really, I think, is 

 that we are not exactly honest, especially with the extracted honey, 

 and every bee-keeper, as Mr. Dadant says, has to combat that idea 

 very vigorously. 



The Secretary. — I have a big sign up "Extracted Honey for 

 Sale, " on one of my pecan trees in the avenue near the big gate, and 

 every once in a while somebody stops in and wants to see if we have 

 the pure honey. I take them in and show my bees, and show the ex- 

 tractor and then I show them the frames that have been extracted 

 from, and tell them that we can put them in the hives again and pro- 

 duce two or three times as much as we otherwise could. 



Mr. Dadant. — I had a friend who is now dead, in St. Louis, who 

 sold 10,000 pounds of honey for me. He was a man of gieat acquaint- 

 ance, member of a great many societies, secretary of two or three of 

 them; he was not a business man, just a secretary of associations. He 

 had some leisure and he would order honey from me in 10-pound pails 

 over and over again. I said to him one day, "How do you manage 

 to use so much honey, you do not keep a store, how do you sell so 

 much?" "Why," he said, "there is no trouble at all. If I were 

 trying to sell whiskey or cigars, lots of people would say: "aren't you 

 ashamed to offer that kind of stuff for sale?" But the only thing 

 people ask is, "Is it pure?" "Yes, I know it is pure." "All right, 

 send me a bucket." There is not trouble at all in selhng it. Why? 

 Because they have confidence. The minute they suspect it, they ask, 

 and if there is any doubt, they do not want it, they would rather buy 

 the glucose. If they tasted honey and glucose side by side, they 

 could detect it. So you do not want the Food Administration to 

 increase that mistrust by advertising, allowing sugar for honey manu- 

 facture, that is a great mistake, and I think that our Association ought 

 at least to notify the Food Administration that they do not approve 

 of that. Let them know that we do not think it is the right thing tb 

 do, to offer sugar for honey manufacture without explaining that they 

 simply allow it to manufacture sweets that are a mixture of honey and 

 lower sweets. 



The President. — Do you make that in the form of a motion, 

 that there should be a resolution?' 



Mr. Dadant. — I think that we ought to write a resolution to that 

 effect. 



The President. — I will ask Mr. Dadant and Mr. Kildow to 

 offer a resolution in the morning. 



Mrs. Kildow. — Just another word along the same line. One day 

 Mr. Kildow and I were in the store where they were handling our 

 honey and the proprietor said, "Have you any more of that honey, I 

 would like some more." Mr. Kildow said, "You have still some on 

 your shelf." And at that time the Baptist minister stepped up and 

 took up one of the bottles of honey and said, "I don't suppose it is 

 pure." I called the minister by name, and I said, "Do you suppose 



