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some advertisements pull and some do 

 not. 



If you just say "Eat honey", I do 

 not believe it would sell very much, 

 whether it is labeled or not. 



I tried an experiment: I had a card 

 — "You will not get stung if you will 

 eat Moe's honey." That created some 

 merriment, but I do not believe it sold 

 very much honey. 



I had a lot of candied honey, so I 

 had a card — "Did you ever eat candied 

 honey — better than butter, cheaper 

 than butter, spreads like butter." 



In answer to that advertisement, I 

 was several days carrying out honey 

 and distributing it. 



Another advertisement I had this 

 summer in our local paper: "Tons of 

 honey; we want you to help eat it." 

 That seemed to pull. We sold quite a 

 lot of honey in answer to that ad- 

 vertisement. 



President — Now the time is drawing 

 near to a close; we have a few ques- 

 tions here yet, three or four. 



Question — Has the Pearce method 

 proved successful? 



Mr. Roehrs — What does it consist 

 of? 



A member — The Bee Journals have 

 been full of it. 



Mr. Wilcox — I know how it is de- 

 scribed by him in the Bee Journals 

 but, as for trying it, I never had faith 

 enough in it. 



Mr. Root — If I understand it right, 

 the Pearce method is a combination 

 of the Dadant system and the tier up 

 system of smaller frames. 



Question — What is the best way to 

 teach people the process of producing 

 extracted honey? 



A member — Is it necessary to teach 

 them that? Better teach them to eat 

 it. 



Mr. Kannenberg — People sometimes 

 want to know how is extracted honey 

 made. 



President Miller — I think I have a 

 process of teaching them. I put my 

 advertisement, printed in red, across 

 here (illustrating), and I hand them 

 one of these every time; it tells the 

 whole story. 



Question — What is the best means of 

 preventing the loss of flavor in heat- 

 ing honey? 



President Miller — Do not heat it too 

 much or too long. 



Mr. Wilcox — The best means to adopt 

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is to warm it up slowly and not heat 

 it very much — not heat it more than 

 150 or 160 degrees for white honey or 

 130 or 140 degrees for dark honey. 



President Miller — Has any one any 

 other question? 



A member— What is the best way 

 to scrape sections? What is the best 

 way to get bee glue off of sections? 



President Miller — I can tell you a good 

 way; I would like to have somebody 

 else tell it — Mr. W^heeler? 



Mr. Wheeler — Mr. Root, tell us. 



Mr. Root — We use several ways; we 

 use mainly a wheel operated by a small 

 motor with sand paper on it. 



Dr. Miller spoke about scraping sec- 

 tions on sand paper; one would think 

 that would all fill up; it does not; you 

 have to have your sand paper right. 



We have a wheel revolving, barely 

 touching that section this side and. 

 that; take that section out and do the 

 other. We have a wheel and a band 

 sets over it, and that sand paper is 

 mounted on it. I think you could do it 

 by foot power. 



I am not so sure but what some en- 

 terprising manufacturer ought to put 

 that on the market. 



The wheel must be about a foot in 

 size. 



Put the sections as near as you ican 

 to the center. * " 



While I was in Utah a year ago last 

 winter, a man had a machine with 

 seven knives mounted on which the 

 knives stood at an angle; he hardly 

 laid this against it and it would scrape 

 the sections nicely. We tried it — ^but 

 in the hands of the average person 

 there is danger of getting the finger 

 nail taken off, and if you hit it too 

 quick it would break the combs. 



With the sand paper you can skin 

 your knuckles. 



Mr. Moe — When you had that in 

 Gleanings the first time I read it with 

 interest but I was afraid to get sand 

 in the honey. I quit because of that 

 very thing. How do you keep from 

 getting sand in the honey? 



Mr. Root — There is a little bit of 

 criticism of that; with the sand paper 

 that is one objection, but one thing, 

 there is a little trick in putting it on. 

 I do not believe I can tell you because 

 I don't know. If you turn the sand 

 paper flat arid run it this way (indi- 

 cating) the dust will drop down. 



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