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of those schools has a class of any- 

 where from six to forty young- ladies 

 who are just beginning to think about 

 cooking. 



Now, all these teachers have a 

 course of study laid out for them by 

 the State Superintendent of Public In- 

 struction and State Superintendent of 

 Domestic Science, and in that coursa 

 of studies is laid down what they 

 should teach that year, and they are 

 very friendly to teaching something 

 about honey. 



A gentleman said this afternoon that 

 people would eat what tasted good, 

 but it is true, too, they eat things that 

 don't taste very good. 



I would like to see a man who says 

 that breakfast food tastes good, but 

 they eat it. I would like to see break- 

 fast food eaten without cream and 

 sugar. There are a whole string of 

 breakfast foods, about forty different 

 kinds, and there are some families 

 who make a breakfast of it. 



Now, then, why do they eat break- 

 fast foods? Because they are health 

 foods; then why not eat honey be- 

 cause it is a health food, and it Is a 

 good deal better than breakfast foods. 



These schools also will teach the 

 use of honey in cooking if you give 

 them recipes and instructions. 



The Superintendent of Domestic 

 Science told me she did not know of 

 any honey recipes being presented to 

 them, but she did know of hundreds 

 of other products, for instance: corn 

 syrups. 



If school teachers will teach the 

 uses of corn syrup, they will teach the 

 relative value of honey. The beauty 

 of that is it costs them practically 

 nothing. It is done by the state for 

 the benefit of the citizens of the state, 

 and the instructor is paid by the state. 



We do not have to pay for expen- 

 sive educators and demonstrators; 

 these teachers will do those things. 



Now, our Association sent greetings 

 to this Association by Dr. Phillips; I 

 don't know whether he has read them 

 or not. 



This Association is asked to co- 

 operate with Illinois, Michigan, and 

 Indiana by appointing committees to 

 take this matter up with the state 

 authorities and start the thing going 

 in this state and vicinity and have 

 the use of honey placed on the course 

 of instruction for the Domestic Sci- 

 ence instructors, and then let these 



committees co-operate with one an- 

 other in the different states. 



Next year Indiana will take up the 

 teaching of the use of honey in her 

 schools; and, if you will do the same 

 thing, and Michigan will. Prof. 

 Yaeger tells me that Minnesota has 

 appointed him. He delivers one lec- 

 ture a week before some body of 

 teachers right along that line, and it 

 seems to me like that would be one 

 of the best propositions and best spent 

 effort that can be made. 



Mr. Smith — I believe we ought to 

 correct the impression that was made, 

 if there are people who do not know- 

 all about honey, here. 



As brother "Williams said that a 

 gentleman said this afternoon, people 

 ate other things because they liked 

 them; because they liked the taste. 



I do not know of a more palatable 

 food than honey, yet we are leaving 

 the impression that it compares with 

 breakfast foods and other things of 

 that kind. 



Mr. Kindig — If it pleases the As- 

 sociation, I would like to present a 

 communication from the Indiana Bee- 

 Keepers' Association: 



"Indianapolis, Dec. II, 1915. 

 "To the Chicago -Northwestern Bee- 

 Keepers' Association — Greeting: 

 "The Indiana Bee-Keepers' Associ- 

 ation in session assembled sends its 

 warmest greeting, and wishes for 

 future success to the Chicago-North- 

 western Bee-Keepers' Association, and 

 invites their co-operation in a general 

 effort to have the food value of honey 

 and its value in cooking taught in the 

 Domestic Science Departments of the 

 public schools of the various states." 



Mr. Kindig — In that connection, I 

 do not want to appear to do an ad- 

 vertising stunt; that is not my in- 

 tention at all. 



But right along this line of cooking 

 and using honey in food — in cooking 

 in particular. The idea was conceived 

 of perfecting an organization which 

 would look to the advertising of honey 

 and the furtherance of its uses, leav- 

 ing out the question of honej' produc- 

 tion and those kindred subjects that 

 ordinarily come before a Bee -Keepers' 

 Association. 



This idea has crystallized itself in 

 the organization in Indianapolis last 

 week of what is called the United 



