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the United States. T had friends tell 

 me that the best they ever read about 

 bee-keeping was that article, and such 

 articles could be put in the daily news- 

 papers, not as extensive as his, and they 

 would awaken an interest in honey. 



'Sir. Thompson — When it comes to 

 newspapers printing anything that is 

 given to them on the subject of bees, I 

 think they will jtrint anything — some 

 newspapers will. Perhaps there are 

 some here that will rememl)er two or 



country that you have read and did not 

 know it. There is a woman wh.o writes 

 from some place in Kentucky, that signs 

 her name "Kentuckian" mostly. She is 

 employd by the Sapolio people, and the 

 Pearline iieople. and the biirax people, 

 and several oilu-r people, and she writes 

 home articles fur ])ai)ers. Tier articles 

 appear all o\-er the United States in 

 agricultural papers in the home depart- 

 ment, and the only thing that is in them 

 — for instance. >lie will tell how ti.' clean 



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three months ago the Chicag<3 Record- 

 Herald had an article stating that a 

 bee-keeper in Iowa who had keept bees 

 for a number of years died, and his 

 bees commenced to sulk, they would 

 work no longer, and they had trouble 

 keeping them away from his remains — ■ 

 they followed him to the grave, they 

 had such an attachment for him. So if 

 a newspaper will print anything like 

 that, you can get them to print anything, 

 can't you ? 



Mr. Abbott — It seems to me very clear 

 that here is a plan of advertising that 

 is almost unlimited. I have had a good 

 deal of experience. I am a newspaper 

 man myself, and I haven't an ax to 

 grind and I am not scared at advertis- 

 ing. But let me tell yoti about a class 

 of advertising that is done all over this 



carpets, and the only thing thrit smacks 

 of an advertisement i> that she gets in 

 the name Sapolio once in a while. The 

 borax trust ha\-e women emiilo_\"ed in 

 the same way. One write.- from V.m- 

 poria, Kan>.. t" the home depar;nu-nt 

 of agricultural papers. She recommends 

 borax for sore eyes, aud baracic acid for 

 all sorts of things. • They try hard to 

 "work" us. They "worked" ni\ wife 

 for a little while. She is lietter natured 

 than I am. T eliminated the borax. I 

 said, "some giuxl di>infectant." I elimi- 

 nated Pearline and s;iid, "some good 

 washing powder," and of course the arti- 

 cles stopped when 1 edited them, which 

 was a good thing. It could just as well 

 be honey as borax, and if General 

 ■Manager I->ance would arrange with a 

 half" dozen men like Dr. Miller and Mr. 



