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1 used an ordinarj' door electric bell, 

 and dry batter^', such as can be bought 

 at almost any hardware for half a 

 dollar. Or it cm be bought of Mout- 

 gomerj' Ward ».'v: Co., or other mail 

 order houses. Connect the battery and 

 the bell b}' tlie insulated wire that 

 comes with the bell, then cut one of the 

 wires in two, scrape off the covering 

 for a distance of two or three inches 

 from each end, wind one end around 

 the upright iron standard of the scales, 

 and support the other end just slightlj'^ 

 above the brass beam when it is down. 

 Put 3'our tin can on the scales, set 

 them to the desired weight, turn on 

 the honey, and go about y«. ur business, 

 if the business is not out of sound of 

 the bell. As soon as the requisite 

 amount of honey has run iu, the 

 beam will rise and touch the wire, 

 thus completing the circuit and 

 ringing the bell. 



The scales may be set a pound or 

 two short, and then set at the correct 

 weight after the alarm has been given, 

 and the filling completed. 



My honey is strained as fast as ex- 

 extracted, and run directly into the 

 cans, and, by use of this alarm, it is 

 an easy matter for those who are ex- 

 tracting to fill the cans at the same 

 time with no danger whatever of those 

 overflowing accidents. 



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The Honey Producers' League Turns Over 



Its Funds to the National — Just How 



Shall the Money Be Used? 



The Honey Producers' League was 

 organized with the idea in view of ad- 

 vertising honey, counteracting misrep- 

 resentations regarding its purit}', and 

 using all possible means of increasing 

 its sale. For several reasons it did 

 not meet with the success that its pro- 

 moters had hoped would come. Bee- 

 keepers did not rally and come forward 

 with their money and support as it 

 was expec ed that the3' would. Many 



believed that the League was started 

 in opposition to the National, and this 

 roused a feeling of resentment. To 

 quiet all of this feeling, the Directors 

 proposed, at their last meeting, to turn 

 over to the National the funds in the 

 possession of the League, providing 

 that the members of the League were 

 willing, and, further, that the National 

 would use the money for the same pur- 

 poses for which it was originally con- 

 tributed. It was also suggested that 

 the National, in case it accepted the 

 money, should appoint a committee to 

 decide in exactly what way the money 

 should be used to advance the sale of 

 honey. The Directors of the National 

 voted to accept the money {%\ ,408.27 

 and the chairman of the board, Mr. 

 R L. Taylor, has appointed, as this 

 committee, the General Manager of the 

 National, Mr. N. E. France, and the 

 Secretary of the League, your humble 

 servant, W. Z. Hutchinson. 



As a member of that committee, I 

 would be very thankful for suggestions. 

 I will suggest something first, and that 

 may set others to thinking The first 

 thing that comes to me, in this line, is 

 the publication of short articles in the 

 p:itent "insitles" of papers— in what 

 has been termed "boiler plate" mat- 

 ter. Most people are aware that in a 

 large number of newspapers, only one 

 half of the paper is printed at home- 

 In Chicago, and some of the other large 

 cities, are publishing houses the sole 

 business of which is the preparing and 

 printing of these "patent insides, " for 

 newspapers. 1 he general news, and 

 miscellaneous matter is printed upon 

 one side of thousands and thousands 

 of sheets, and these sheets are sold to 

 newspapers all over the country, and 

 the home news is then printed upon 

 the other side There are, of course, 

 different sized sheets made up, and the 

 matter is not the same on all of them, 

 and two papers in the same town, or 

 near each other, are not furnished the 

 same "inside. " 



