Last week while encouraging the USDA by phone to give the names of the voters in the referendum to Joe Rowland something very interesting was pointed out to me. The ACT that creates the National Honey Board is very unusual and different from other assessment collecting acts for other US commodities. The ACT for the NHB states that the purpose of the NHB is to increase World honey production. The little bird talking to me said they had been involved with many assessment collecting marketing groups in the United States before and all the others commodity group ACTS, state clearly that they are being created to increase the domestic production of a commodity. Hearing this was very interesting because with language like this any help that might be given to the AMERICAN beekeeper is also being given to the Chinese, Argentininan and Mexican beekeepers. I my opinion the ACT that creates the National Honey Board is defective and flawed and the National Honey Board should be abolished and recreated if wanted by the AMERICAN beekeepers to promote AMERICAN beekeepers. The packers created and haved contro;ed the NHB since it's inception.PLEASE VOTE NO ON THE NHB REFERENDUM. Walter Patton