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York and others that I can mention, to 

 write the articles, they can be put into 

 99 out of loo of the newspapers of the 

 United States tomorrow, without any 

 trouble at all. That will boost honey 

 just as high as you want it before the 

 public, and it will double the demand 

 for honey all over this country in a 

 little while. I wish the National As- 

 sociation would just take up that kind 

 of thing and spend two or three thous- 

 and dollars lying in the treasury doing 

 nothing in advertising honey all over 

 the United States. 



Dr. Miller — I want to endorse what 

 Mr. Abbott has said, and then add this: 

 The material that we would want to go 

 before the public, there would be in it 

 no trick. This is no "Sapolio" business. 

 It is all square, honest work. Here is 

 information that the public needs, it is 

 for their benefit. We can get it in. 

 I believe, further, that instead of hav- 

 ing me do a part of it and Mr. France, 

 and so on in that way, if this work 

 has been done for the horticulturists, 

 the experience that has been gained in 

 doing that work will be of immense ad- 

 vantage in our work. But, as I said 

 before, I have not examined carefully 

 the material of which this man is made. 

 If he is put together so that he can 

 get things into papers, I would rather 

 a good deal get some man who is ex- 

 pert at it to do it than to have us bung- 

 lers go at it. It would be worth a great 

 deal more. I don't know him at all, 

 and I don't know what commission he 

 may get on what he can do, but if 

 he or his concern to which he is at- 

 tached can do the work, I believe it 

 would do us a lot of good to pay some- 

 thing for it. 



Pres. York — I kiiow Mr. Burdette a 

 little bit, and anything he would pre- 

 pare would be submitted to Mr. France 

 or a committee designated to revise any- 

 thing he might write. But I am satis- 

 fied that he can get things into papers 

 that we could not at all, because he has 

 been doing it. 



Mr. Kimmey — I was surprised when 

 Mr. Burdette came in today. I have 

 known Mr. Burdette for a long time, but 

 I did not know he had been engaged 

 in the horticultural business. I did not 

 know he knew Mr. York, nor that he 

 was coming here. I also know some- 

 thing about the seed trade. Mr. York 

 has told you that I am Secretary of the 

 National Poultry Association, whose 



business it is to give a poultry show in 

 Chicago. For every meeting I have 

 been in the habit of employing some 

 press agent. Last year I employed Mr. 

 Burdette; and he is head and shoulders 

 above any other men and women I have 

 employed. I have a new contract, 

 signed a few days ago, agreeing to pay 

 him two or three hundred dollars for 

 three weeks' work. You have all got 

 articles in your papers. We worked it 

 up. We have them in nearly all the 

 papers. It is an educational business. 

 You don't need to hide a single thing 

 when we talk about honey. We don't 

 have to misrepresent a single thing. 

 Without knowing that Mr. Burdette was 

 at all to blame for it, or had anything 

 to do with it, I know that the demand 

 for seeds, bulbs and such as he men- 

 tioned last season was phenomenally 

 large in Chicago. Every seed-house was 

 burdened with work, and they did not 

 have to burn a single pound of their 

 seed nor to throw away a single one 

 of their shrubs. It is a matter of no- 

 toriety, known throughout Chicago. I 

 am glad it happened so that I could 

 give this testimony m favor of Mr. 

 York's project, and of Mr. Burdette's 

 idea. As to just what persons shall do 

 this work, I have no doubt — pardon me 

 for saying it — that I could write an 

 article just as well as Mr. Burdette can, 

 but I have other things to attend to. 

 I think Dr. Miller could write better 

 about honey than Mr. Burdette. But I 

 think to entrust the matter to a man 

 like Mr. Burdette, who will bore Dr. 

 Miller for facts, and go to Mr. Hutchin- 

 son and Mr. York, and then sit down 

 and trim it all over, will do more ef- 

 fectual work than you can if you scatter 

 your energies. 



Mr. Whitney — I feel great interest 

 in this matter of the education of the 

 public with regard to the value of honey, 

 and it is my opinion that there is noth- 

 ing that we can say in a public way as 

 to the use of honey that will not do the 

 bee-keeper good. I have had a little 

 experience up at our place. Our local 

 editor there wanted to know if I would 

 not write something for the local paper, 

 and I wrote a few articles, and they ap- 

 peared every week for 5 or 6 weeks, 

 and people became very much interested 

 in bees and honey, and since then I 

 have not asked a single person to buy 

 any honey; I could sell more of it than 

 I can possibly produce or get. I know 



