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deal of chunk honey — comb honey in 

 cans; you might stamp that "Chunk 

 Honey." That means not only it is 

 honey, but that the comh is in it. The 

 word "extracted" means nothing; all 

 you want is pure honey, if you are put- 

 ting honey on the market. 



President York — ^It seems to me that 

 simply "honey" is enough. 



Mr. Holtertnann — ^What will we call 

 the strained honey, taken from the ex- 

 tractor ? 



Dr. iBohrer — Call it pure honey. 



Mr. Holtermann — Some think ex- 

 tracted honey is manufactured honey. 



Mr. Moore — They say to me: "I 

 don't want any extract of honey!" 



Mr. Thompson — ^I would like to know 

 why we should not let our agitation for 

 foul Ibrood protection drop, if people 

 are not familiar with it; this would 

 toe the same as to say we should drop 

 the extracting business at this late 

 •hour. 



Mr. Moore — No, you are mistaken; 

 you must give these people who don't 

 know anything about it, a name they 

 will understand, that will count for 

 something This foul brood agitation 

 has to do with bee-people, but the 

 name "extracted honey" goes before 

 people who do not understand, and it 

 is very material, in putting honey on 

 the market for sale, to give them 

 something that will mean to them the 

 article they want to buy. The word 

 "extract" comes on jars, and a large 

 number of people would think that it 

 is extract of honey. 



Mr. Horstmann — ^I don't think you 

 could get a word that would be better. 

 On my cans, "Pure Extracted Honey" 

 is pressed on the lid, and when people 

 get that, they know what that -means, 

 if they know anything, and if they 

 don't, I will tell them. I have pure 

 comb honey and pure extracted honey. 

 I might have pure candied honey, if 

 they want it, but the words, "Pure 

 Extracted Honey," are all right, 1 

 think. I would like to have a vote on 

 that. 



Mr. Holtermann — I appreciate Mr. 

 Moore's position; we have men in our 

 community who think because it is ex- 

 tracted it is not pure honey; they won- 

 der what "extracted" means. I think 

 the word "separated" would explain 

 it more quickly. I don't like slung 

 honey; I would suggest the word sepa- 

 rator, and dispense with the word ex- 

 tracted; people are full of supersti- 



tion even in this late day; they are 

 distrustful, and are not familiar with 

 the pure food law with regard to 

 honey. 



Mr. Moore — This word "imitation" 

 has been used so much to avoid the 

 operation of the pure food law, and 

 these people in the cities think the ex- 

 tracted honey is an imitation of the 

 real thing. You have to take people 

 as they are, and give them what they 

 want; you have not the time to edu- 

 cate them. 



Mr. Thompson — The proper way to 

 educate them is to give them good 

 goods, and they will not ask you if it 

 is the pure honey; the goods will 

 speak for itself, and they will know. 



Mr. Kennicott — If you say "separate," 

 there are many ways to separate 

 honey. Honey is extracted honey com- 

 ing out of the comb. 



Mr. Moore — The public say "strained 

 honey." 



Mr. Baxter — Simply speaking, is not 

 honey taken out of the comb extract- 

 ed? They are both extracted — extract- 

 ed from the comb. 



President York — If you call it sepa- 

 rated honey, some people might think 

 it ran through a cream separator! 



Mr. Holtermann — Most people call it 

 strained honey; it is all strained, any- 

 way! 



Mr. Winter — They ask me for 

 strained honey, and 1 give them 

 strained honey. 



Dr. Miller — The English language 

 changes from time to time, and some- 

 times it takes a long while to make a 

 change. A word comes into use, and 

 after it becomes a fixed expression, it 

 is a very difficult thing to change it. 

 Now the words "extracted honey" — 

 that is the name that that has gone by 

 for a long series of years; if you 

 called it slung honey, or extracted 

 honey, or separated honey, it would 

 take years to have the public know 

 what is meant; they know extracted 

 honey. It is called extracted honey 

 thousands of miles from here, all over; 

 now, if you talk until midnight, and 

 say it ought not to be called extracted 

 honey, it will be called extracted 

 honey tomorrow, ana the day after, 

 just the same, and you may as well let 

 it go at that, and try to do something 

 that you can do. 



Mr. Lyman — The fact was this year 

 I did not have any pure extracted 

 honey to put into cans; all my cans 



