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Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan, where the pre- 

 ponderance is white clover and basswood. I know a major- 

 ity will have sweet clover honey. Where they get to like 

 it, it is liked as well as anything else. But this honey ques- 

 tion is purely a matter of taste. They want what they have 

 all their lives been used to, and they will absolutely condemn 

 and call impure anything else. 



Mr. Becker — As far as sweet clover honey is concerned, 

 I have no objection whatever; it is a very fine honey. But 

 when you take out a section of sweet clover honey there is 

 the peculiar smell to it that is not in any other honey, and 

 I think that is the part that people do not like. When you 

 taste the honey it is as fine tasting as any honey, but it has 

 that peculiar smell that you can smell in the growing sweet 

 clover a hundred yards off before you reach it. 



LABELING SECTION HONEY. 



"What might be the disadvantage of a label covering 

 all four sides of a section, printed matter being on all four 

 sides?" 



Mr. Fluegee — I should think it would be daubbed up with 

 honey and get soiled. 



Mr. Wilcox — ^Retail dealers might not like it, and that is 

 a serious objection. They won't want to advertise your 

 honey for you, by distributing it among their customers; 

 they would sooner order direct from the producer. 



Pres. York — I take it that the questioner means printed 

 matter concerning the production of honey, or proof of the 

 purity, and not as an advertising card. 



Mr. Wilcox — 1 see no necessity for any printed matter 

 on comb honey unless your name is on it as a guaranty of 

 purity. 



Pres. York — At the St. Louis convention the question 

 was asked whether it might be well to print something right 

 on the wood of the sections by the manufacturers, calling 

 attention to the fact that there is no such thing as manu- 

 factured comb honey, or something of that kind. But I 

 doubt if people would stop to read it, anyway. Take the 

 cities where most of the comb honey is sold, the servant 

 girls get it, and I don't think they would stop to read any- 

 thing printed on the sections. Still, they might. 



Mr. Moore — It seems to me if any one wants to put 

 printed matter on it, the carton is the very best method, 

 and you 'can print them all over, and as much of it will 

 be read as any other printed matter we send out. 



THANKS TO MR. ROOT. 



" Mr. Moore — I move that we present to Mr. E. R. Root, 

 towards his expenses, the sum of $5. Now, inasmuch as he 

 has absolutely refused to accept anything, and says he will 

 donate this sum to our foul brood fund ; and inasumch as 

 our whole assembly was greatly entertained and interested 

 by his exhibition of last night, I move you a vote of thanks 



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