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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



numbers than colonies packed in saw- 

 dust, they built up well, and, by the 

 opening- of the honey harvest, were the 

 equal of any in the yard. The winter 

 before she had 14 colonies protected by 

 paper, and they came out the best in 

 the apiary. This year she is going to 

 winter 100 colonies with only the paper 

 packing- for protection. 



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The Manufactured Comb Honey 

 Canard received due attention at the 

 hands of the St. Louis convention. A 

 resolution was passed authorizing the 

 Association to forfeit $1,000 for speci- 

 mens of artificial comb that would de- 

 ceive an ordinary honey expert. I 

 doubt if the convention had the power 

 to offer to forfeit such a sum, as the 

 paying out of money in such matters in 

 the hands of the Directors, but the 

 publication of such a resolution may 

 do no harm. 



A committee was also appointed to 

 keep watch of the publication in news- 

 papers of the said story and report it 

 to the General Manager, that he may 

 look after it. 



To illustrate the difficulty of dealing 

 with the subject in the general press, 

 let me give one little instance: At the 

 end of the first day's session the press 

 committee prepared a short item g-iving- 

 the principal doings of the day, and 

 telephoned it to the daily papers. 

 "Wishing to do all possible to counter- 

 act the manufactured comb honey 

 story, it was mentioned that the stories 

 about artificial comb honey were 

 severely condemned, as untrue and 

 working an injury to the industry. 

 The next morning- we were horrified to 

 find in the report, the following-: "The 

 delegates were about equally divided 

 as to possibility of manufacturing- 

 comb honey. ' ' Perhaps I have not 

 worded it exactly, but that is the sense 

 of it. The mistake probably came 

 about from the difficulty of hearing 

 correctly over the 'phone; coupled with 

 the knowledg-e of the old story. The 



next day the committee wrote ont a 

 most emphatical denial and explana- 

 tion, and, not trusting- to the 'phone, 

 sent one of their number to the office 

 of the paper. The article appeared 

 together with the head that had 

 been written b}' the press commit- 

 tee, but the editor could not resist 

 the temptation to put in a sub-head 

 which said that "The bees cannot be 

 deceived by the machine made pro- 

 duct." This took the sense all out of 

 the explanation, and still left the im- 

 pression that there is a "machine- 

 made article, '" 



Still another explanation was sent 

 to the editor regarding- the misleading 

 sub-head. What will bethefinal result 

 I don't know, but it will be seen that 

 the difficulties in the wa}' of correcting 

 this falsehood are something requiring 

 endless patience and persistence. 



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NOMINATIONS FOR OFFICERS. 



The postal card votes for nomina- 

 tions have been counted and the two 

 men receiving the most votes for each 

 office are as follows: 



To succeed Jas. U. Harris, as Presi- 

 dent, Jas. U. Harris and C. P. Da- 

 dant. 



To succeed C. P. Dadant as Vice- 

 President, C. P. Dadant and J. F. 

 Mclntyre. 



To succeed Geo. W. Brodbeck as 

 Secretary, Geo. W. Brodbeck and W. 

 Z. Hutchinson. 



To succeed N. E. France as General 

 Manager, N. E. France and Louis 

 Scholl. 



To succeed Director Whitcomb, E. 

 Whitcomb and H. H. Hyde. 



To succeed Director Hutchinson, R. 

 L. Taylor and J. Q. Smith. 



To succeed Director Toepperwein, 

 U. Toepperwein and E. S. Lovesy 



Let all remember that the foregoing 

 is, in effect, simply an informal ballot, 

 and carries with it noobligation. Each 

 member is still as free as ever to vote 

 for just whomsoever he pleases. 



