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son that it is made as an imitation of butter, 

 being given the color of butter and also the 

 flavor of the same as near as may be ; the 

 manufacturer well knowing that their i)ro- 

 duct is likely to be palmed off by designing 

 persons on the unsuspecting as real butter. 

 If it is a good thing why is it made an im- 

 tation of something else ? Why is it not 

 given a color and taste of its own!* If it 

 were its manufacture would do doubt soon 

 cease. 



It would be just the same with the so 

 called sugar honey. It would posess the 

 advantage over oleomargarine of there be- 

 ing no question as to its healthfulness and 

 value as food. Then why make it an im 

 itatiou of honey by feeding tlie syrup to bees? 

 Why not give it a flavor of its own by add- 

 ing lemon, vanilla or some other flavor and 

 sell it as a syrup and not as a kind of honey 

 which it would not be. To my mind there 

 is a big question of integrity involved in its 

 production and men in the advocacy of the 

 tlieory on which it is based. Only harm 

 would come from its production. 



White House Sta., N. J. Sept. 2S. IS'JG. 



Mr. McKnight's Reply to Mr. Holterman. 



E. m'kNIGHT. 



mHERE are two 

 T things in Mr. 

 Holterman's reply 

 that he says I 

 know, which I do 

 not know. He 

 says I know he 

 "had just two votes 

 to his opponents 

 one" — I do not 

 know that such is 

 the fact. Recent- 

 ly it is somewhat 

 difficult to tell whether the man declared 

 elected has a majority at all. For instance 

 at the election of officers on a recent occa- ■ 

 sion the Scrutineers declared certain officers 

 elected without announcing the vote, and no 

 one but themselves knew the state of the 

 poll or whether the declaration was just or 

 unjust. It was the first occassion in my 

 exi>erience I had known a scrutineer to de- 

 clare anyone elected. My idea of a scruti- 

 neer's duty is to count the ballot and declare 

 the result. No I do not know that Mr. Hol- 



terman had two votes to his opponent's one. 

 Nor did I know that he had an " opponent " 

 in the contest. If there was opposition 

 Mr. Holterman himself was the opponent. 

 It has been the custom hitherto to elect the 

 Vice-President to the President's chair 

 when the President retires— Mr. Darling had 

 a right therefore to expect to be elected, but 

 an opponent turned up, and the time hon- 

 ored custom was broken in upoi^ 



Secondly, Mr. Holterman says I know his 

 " mother has been a more successful bee- 

 keeper and obtained more honey per colony 

 than I, " I am not aware that such is ^he 

 case. I know nothing of the lady's bee- 

 keeping history — nor do I know her person- 

 ally. 



The gentleman pathetic allusion to men 

 and mothers is rather amusing, coming 

 from the source it does. 



All lady bee keepers who enroll their 

 names become honorary members of the 

 ( )ntario Bee-Keepers' Association but never 

 until the last annual meeting did any such 

 vote for the election of officers, when Mr. 

 Holterman " bustled around " to have this 

 effected — this I know of my own personal 

 knowledge, as do others. His soft im- 

 peachment that I am neither a "gentleman" 

 nor a " man " sits upon me lightly ; because 

 I am persuaded he is but an indifferent 

 authority on the characteristics of either. 



In the last number of the Review Mr. 

 Clarke announces the fact that he has pass- 

 ed the " allotted span, " I too am getting old 

 and have neither the time nor the inclina- 

 tion to take fuKther notice of what this 

 "disturber of peace " may say of me. He 

 has been instrumental in creating more 

 discord in our rauk than all others combin- 

 ed—mainly from selfish ambitious motives 

 on his part. In the prosecution of these 

 he quarrelled with most of the active mem- 

 bers of the Association. He quarrelled with 

 Mr. Jones. Cornell, Pringle, Hall, Clarke 

 and Darling and he made sundry efforts not 

 to quarrel with me, and yet he poses as ths 

 most disinterested well-wisher of society. 



Owen Sound, Canada, Sept. 28, 1696. 



Notes From Foreign Bee Journals. 



F. L. TnoMPSON, 



T EIPZIGER Bienenzeitung.— No doubt 

 rt the knowing ones have observed, as 

 Pastor Fleischmann has done, in the second 



