128 FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT 



Mr. Whitney— On that question I have something in- 

 teresting — to me, at least. I heard of a merchant in this 

 city who sold a lady a case of honey, and the next day 

 she sent it back and came in in a day or two after to tell 

 him she had seat that honey back. She said, "That is manu- 

 factured honey. It came from " South Water street ; it was 

 made by machinery, and I never bought any such honey as 

 that." He told her that she was mistaken, and convinced 

 her it was not manufactured; that it was put in by the bees. 

 She finally consented to let him send the honey back to her 

 house. But there are plenty of people who really think that 

 there is plenty of manufactured comb honey on the market. 

 I meet them at home; intelligent people on ever3^hing else 

 but bees and honey; they don't know anything about it. 



Mr. Moore — Some of your may think we are threshing 

 this thing out at unnecessary length. My specialty has 

 always been honey for private families. Some of us visit 

 the people who eat our honey on their tables, and you will 

 all admit that they are not quite the biggest chumps on 

 earth that are running the city of Chicago, large and small, 

 rich and poor; and I want to tell you, from all those people, 

 of all conditions in life, comes this question, "Is comb honey 

 really manufactured?" And they ask me as an expert to 

 answer it. "Is most of the honey on the market manu- 

 factured?" This comes to me in one hundred and . one 

 different ways. I have one answer. Of course I say that 

 all comb honey is pure honey. Some of you perhaps do not 

 come in touch with these folks in the way I do, and you 

 think it is a question that we are putting too much stress 

 upon, but every one of you ought to carry the idea through 

 your lives, that whenever you can you want to strike a blow 

 in favor of the right. Dr. Emma Walker, in the Ladies' 

 Home Journal, put forth a statement in which she said that 

 one of the largest uses of paraffin was to make manufactured 

 comb honey. Then and tiiereupon I wrote to her contra- 

 dicting it, and I wrote to the editor saying that it was abso- 

 lutely false, and it was wrong for any one in her position 

 to put forth a statement that would injure a large number 

 of people. Mr. York also wrote to the editor a personal 

 letter. We both got answ«rs. I suppose that that depart- 

 ment was flooded with letters from all over the country. 

 We looked with a great deal of interest to see what would 

 be done. Perhaps two months afterwards came the answer, 

 an article in which she summed the thing up and said this 

 and that authority said it was so; and that the Encyclopaedia 

 Britannica said that there was manufactured comb honey, 

 and gave four or five different authorities stating that comb 

 honey was manufactured and paraffin was largely used. But 

 she summed it up at the bottom by saying that "after talk- 

 ing with practical bee-keepers and considering the matter in 

 all its points we have decided that there is no such thing, 

 and never has been, as manufactured comb honey." It was 

 the result of our influence. Now, all of you go through life 

 and remember to use your influence wherever you see the 



