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any more fellows in Cincinnati like you?" I told him, "Yes." 

 I travel to sell that honey. You folks have more prestige. 

 I would talk about the National Bee-Keepers' Association. 

 Inspire everybody. If you did this you wouldn't be selling 

 your comb honey for lo and 12 cents, and your extracted for 

 5 cents. The demand would be greater than the product. It 

 would be true, and the National Bee-Keepers' Association 

 membership — you wouldn't have to advertise it the way you 

 do to get your dollars. They would run for you. That would 

 be the best thing. [Applause.] 



Mr. France — I hate to take any time here as it might lookj 

 as I am in a position with the National Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation, that it would be better to keep still. There are two 

 sides to all these things, and I admit that I have thought 

 very many times of the discussions you had here years ago, 

 and one that rang in my ears a year ago at the National con- 

 vention, which means united efforts. There was a talk given 

 here a year ago, that the best thing for the National Asso- 

 ciation to do v/as to use printers' ink. But a little while ago 

 there was a paper in Sioux City, that published that comb 

 honey was being produced and manufactured without bees. 

 The writer said he knew for he had been in the business for 

 years. He made statements that did thousands of dol- 

 lars' worth of damage to the United States honey market. 

 The editor refused to put in my reply. Within five days I 

 had, through the Minneapolis Daily Journal, made my reply 

 to it. It was the only one. I think that as soon as the mem- 

 bers of the National get together more harmoniously, there 

 is a great opening right along that line of advertising. We 

 have the subject of adulteration to face, but with the vast 

 amount of literature, and those of you who get my report 

 may think I am exaggerating the amount of postage — I have 

 circulated "Bee-keepers' Legal Rights," 4,000 of those have 

 gone out. I also sent out copies of "Bees and Horticulture."" 

 We have been saved many conflicting lawsuits by the litera- 

 ture that has gone out, and I have air-castled that we would 

 have another leaflet before 1904 was gone on, "Honey and 

 Its Uses, and Conveniences." 



FIRST DAY— Evening Session. 



The evening session was called to order by Pres. York, 

 who introduced General Manager France. His subject was: 



THE national BEE-KEEPERS'' ASSOCIATION. 



I hardly know how to take up this subject, there is so 

 much to it; it is so broad that my hands have been at the 

 pen trying to answer correspondence and keep the machinery 

 in order as best I could. There are so many sides to it; as 

 I said, I hardly know how to take up the subject, and there 

 are so many parts to it that I have not taken up this year 

 for the lack of means and time. It takes a great deal of 

 time; and, as I said this afternoon, you will find that my 

 Annual Report will seemingly have consumed postage un- 

 necessarily, but it has been in the distribution of literature, pay- 



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