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the street with me and I will give you $500 in clean cash 

 if you show me that man." He stopped and looked at me. 

 He said, "I am awfully busy." I said, "Can you make $500 

 in a day, or an hour? Come on with me. I want you either 

 to stop this story or else go and show the goods." He said, 

 I didn't see it, but I saw a fellow that said he saw it." 

 [Laughter.] That is all there was to it; but they keep send- 

 ing it around. 



Mr. Becker — The general public confuse foundation with 

 honey-comb. They are all well aware that there are fac- 

 tories that manufacture comb foundation, but they call it 

 "honey-comb." In that way the general public get the wrong 

 idea, and they think it is the genuine honey-comb. Instead 

 of that the word "foundation" should be used, and, as has 

 been suggested, they should be shown a sample so that they 

 understand just what it is. But it is commonly known as 

 honey-comb, and that is the reasoin I believe the general 

 public has that impression. 



Mr. Pease— A few months ago I placed some cases of 

 honey with a firm here in Chicago. At the time I did this 

 one of the gentlemen said, "I want you to tell me something 

 that I can tell the enquiring public about this artificial honey- 

 comb story." I said, "I will not take time to do it now, 

 but I will come in tomorrow and explain that to you." The 

 next day I went down and took with me a section with a 

 full sheet of foundation that was partially drawn out — drawn 

 out more at the top than at the bottom; I used the extra- 

 thin foundation and the bottom had not been drawn out at 

 all. I went on to explain to him the process by which this 

 foundation was used, and how it was made, and that that 

 was the extent of this artificial honey-comb. I left a sec- 

 tion containing this partly-drawn foundation with him. Sev- 

 eral weeks after that I went into the store and asked him 

 about his honey, and spoke of this sheet of foundation that 

 I had left with him ; and he said he had experienced more 

 satisfaction in using that to explain to the public exactly 

 what comb foundation was, and what artificial honey-comb 

 was, than anything else he had ever seen. I simply offer this 

 as a suggestion. I believe whenever you place a consign- 

 ment of honey with a firm, especially a retail firm, if you 

 will take the pains to place with them a sample of foundation 

 or a section containing the foundation, or partly drawn foun- 

 dation, you will take a long step in educating the public as 

 to what this artificial honey-comb is. 



Mr. Wheeler — I always seem to have to differ from the 

 public. I differ a little on this question of foundation, and 

 I have had considerable experience in selling honey. I have 

 explained foundation to the public, and I have had them 

 go to their friends the next day and tell them, "Why, Wheeler 

 had some manufactured honey there ;" and they confused the 

 foundation with the comb, time and again. I have had that 

 happen. They say, "He buys comb and puts it into the 

 hives." One or two years I went to the County Fair and 

 explained foundation to the folks. I had tliat thrown back 



