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What we call extra-thin we have always considered the best 

 for starters or sheets in the supers. I think very little of 

 that will go into the cell-wall. It will nearly all remain in 

 the midrib because it is so very thin. " Therefore, I want 



. to advise people to use the very thinnest for their sections. 

 But when you come to medium and light brood, it is out of 

 the question to furnish that to people for consumption. You 

 will have a heavy midrib in either case. I am afraid too 

 many people use that and create a sentiment against the 

 foundation. But better have a sentiment against the founda- 

 tion, which we must all know and acknowledge to be there, 

 than to let them believe that your honey is manufactured 

 comb honey, and sealed over with a hot iron, as so many 

 ibelieve. The great trouble is they don't look and don't 

 rely on their palate. The car-loads of honey that come in 

 from the West are largely responsible for that. It is very 

 nice and white, and it looks as if it had never been on a 

 hive, to anybody who does not know. But anybody who 

 will look at the honey, and anybody who can be told that no 

 two sections are alike, will readily understand that it cannot 



, be manufactured. Because, if we were to manufacture them 

 we could not make every comb different from every other 

 comb. 



Pres. York — It has been suggested we write for our local 

 papers. I want to say that a few weeks ago my attention 

 was called to a statement about manufactured comb honey 

 in one of the papers that has perhaps several hundred thou- 

 sand readers. I wrote the editor asking him to make the 

 correction, and he replied that he believed comb honey was 

 manufactured, but if he found otherwise he would correct it. 

 A few weeks later I received another letter from him saying 

 he had discovered it was not true, and he would correct it. 

 I wrote him at once and thanked him for his intention to 

 make the correction. I also said if he wished I would write 

 him an article, and got a letter in a few days saying he 

 would be glad to have me write an article of eight hundred 

 or a thousand words, and I have just written the article. It 

 may have been a little presumption on my part to offer that, 

 but I think it was all right, and I think the rest of us 

 can do the same thing. Whenever you see anything about 

 honey that is wrong, ask for the correction of it, and offer 

 to write an article. 



EVENING SESSION. 



At 7 :30 o'clock p. m. Pres. York called the convention 

 to order and stated that before proceeding with the business 

 they would be favored with some music and a couple of 

 readings. 



Master Ferdinand Moore and Miss Esther Wheeler, fa- 

 vored the convention with instrumental solos; Mrs. Dittmer 

 pleased them with a reading entitled, "A Lullaby," while 



