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THIRD ANNUAL REPORT 



Mr. Wheeler — Mr. Meredith has one way of making 

 vinegar white. He puts horse-radish in it! 



Mr. Meredilh — The distilled vinegar is white vinegar, 

 but in the process of manufacture it is all a wine color, and 

 it is reduced to its whiteness by some process, and there 

 might be somebody here who has had experience in making 

 honey-vinegar. If so, I would like to know it. 



Dr. Miller — Follow up what is in the British Bee Journal. 

 They make dark honey white by means of electrical machines 

 and using ozone? I should think that would be expensive, 

 but they say it isn't. First, to make the dark honey light 

 you put the lightning through your vinegar and make it white. 

 I don't know anything about it in practice, but they say it is 

 really an inexpensive process, but I very much doubt its be- 

 ing a success. 



Mr. Muth — In the large pork-packing establishments they 

 clarify lard. They use all kinds of refuse to make lard, and 

 they have fullers' earth that they clarify with. They put it 

 in the lard, and the darkness will all settle to the bottom. In 

 all the big establishments they clarify their products, and 

 make them white as snow. 



Mr. Meredith — At Aurora a process is used to a large 

 extent in packing-houses, where they use the refuse and the 

 putting on of this earth, and putting it through a press, brings 

 it back to the whiteness which it was before it became dirty. 

 It is done by means of a hydraulic press — pressed through 

 cotton with pressure of 250 to 500 pounds. It is simply a 

 matter of cleaning out the refuse and bringing it back to its 

 original color. 



Mr. Chapman — The packing-houses don't care to get the 

 fuller's earth out of the lard ! I presume in this case we 

 would like to get rid of the fuller's earth. 



producer's name and address on honey. 



"Is it advisable for producers of comb honey to put their 

 name and address on each section when shipping to a city 

 dealer?" 



Mr. Meredith — Yes, and no. As a producer I sell honey 

 and somewhat object to anybody — I would object to shipping 

 my honey to anybody that refused to have my name on it. I 

 ran short and my neighbor Jones had some. The people who 

 are buying my honey want Meredith's honey, and I had to 

 clean off Jones' name ; where I hadn't done so, they wanted 

 my name on the honey. 



Mr. Wilcox — The reason for putting it on there is to 

 advertise it. That is the only reason, and we all wish to ad- 

 vertise our honey. The buyer who gets it may wish it to sell, 

 and may want his name on instead of yours, and he will have 

 to cut yours off. I am selling extracted honey and I some- 

 times run out and have to buy. I buy the best I can. I don't 

 like to buy the poorest. If the man I buy from, and I order 

 him to ship to you, and he has his name on there, you will 

 write right back to him for some more of just such honey, 

 and I would lose a customer. I would rather do without the 

 profit on that honey. I have lost a customer by allowing that 



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