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TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



noxious weed, that a man had 20 acres 

 of pasture and they compelled him to 

 plow it up. 



Mr. Pyles — That is not so in this 

 State. 



Pres. Huffman — How many in this 

 Convention think it is a noxioug weed? 

 (1.) 



How .many think it is not? (All the 

 rest.) 



Pres. Huffman — I believe we bee- 

 keepers believe it is all right. 



Mr. Kneser — The question about 

 blending honey was brought up — Mr. 

 Arnd is here — 



Pres. Huffman' — Can Mr. Arnd give 

 us any light on the subject? 



Mr. Arnd — I cannot — Blending honey 

 — from what standpoint? 



Pres. Huffman — Any kind of honey 

 you have; make your own blend. 



Mr. Arnd — In blending honey you 

 have got to take the material you have; 

 you cannot very often get the material 

 you want. 



Pres. Huffman — The thought, as I 

 understood it, was to take what you 

 had and blend it, and make a blended 

 honey out of it. If you had three or 

 four kinds of honey that you wanted 

 to blend together — how would you go 

 to ^ work to do that in order to give it 

 a good flavor or make an article that 

 would be salable? 



Mr. Arnd — If you blended some 

 honey with other honey it would not 

 be salable at all. I find that alfalfa 

 is one of the most important kinds of 

 honey to use for blending; you take 

 any ordinary honey that is strong, and 

 if it is a nice flavor, even if it is strong 

 3'ou can bring it down just to about 

 where you want to; I think alfalfa is 

 the most important honey on the mar- 

 fet for blending; you take the clover 

 honey that hasi a iittle fall honey with 

 it, and by using the alfalfa with it,' 

 you can bring it down so that people 

 cannot tell the difference hardly be- 

 tween white clover honey and this 

 blend. 



It is pretty hard to blend buckwheat 

 honey with any honey to make a good 

 marketable honey; it is too strong, un- 

 less the people like the buckwheat 

 flavor; I think alfalfa honey is the best 

 honey there is on the market to use 

 to bring down a stronger honey to a 

 nice delicate flavored honey. 



Pres. Huffman — You would recom- 

 mend, then, that one honey to blend 

 with? 



Mr. Arnd — Yes. 



Pres. Huffman — Here are some ques- 

 tions that Mr. Cavanagh has asked' in 

 regard to the National Convention, such 

 as may come up. 



The National Defending Its Members 

 in Cases of Legal Litigation. 



"Shall the National Convention de- 

 fend its members in cases of legal liti- 

 gation? 



"To what extent shall such expense 

 be covered by the National?" 



Preg. Huffman — ^What is your opin- 

 ion as an Association? What have you 

 got to say in regard to this question? 

 If Mr. Cavanagh goes down as a dele- 

 gate he wants to know whether it is 

 the wish of this convention that he 

 advocate it or not. 



Mr. Pyles — ^It seems to me, as I said 

 this forenoon — the question as it was 

 before the new Constitution went into 

 effect, when Mr. Frau'ce was allowed 

 to use his judgment, and only to defend 

 cases where the parties themselves are 

 not to blame, and where somebody else 

 through some grudge or a little prej- 

 udice have made up their minds they 

 are going to get rid of a man's bee- 

 keeping in their neighborhood, and 

 have started legal proceedings, like de- 

 claring the keeping of bees a nuisance 

 — I should think then the National 

 should assist in the defense. 



As Mr. Cavanagh has said — there is 

 a good deal of force in the fact that 

 the National has a bluffing-capacity if 

 nothing else. 



I believe if it were left to our Gen- 

 eral Manager, Mr. France, I would be 

 willing to leave it to his judgment and 

 honesty to decide this. 



Pres. Huffman — That is the way I 

 looked at it, and do now; the old way 

 was all right, and the way Mr. France 

 handled the situation as General Man- 

 ager I think was all right; he used his 

 good judgment; if the party was in the 

 wrong, he told him so and told him 

 that the best they could do was to 

 settle the dispute. I know of several 

 cases he closed in that way. 



Mr. Dadant — As I understand it — the 

 new Constitution has dropped that. 

 But who knows but that something 

 will come up that needs to be settled, 

 sooner or later? In the case where 

 it was declared that bees could not 

 be declared a nuisance which was de- 

 fended and settled satisfactorily, the 

 bee-keepers probably did not realize that 

 that case would come up. Something 



