108 EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



I see only one member of that committee here, that is the Chairman, 

 Mr. Bull. We will hear from him. 



Mr. Bcll. — Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen: There is not 

 so very much to report, except that we mailed out two price letters 

 this last year. The first one was mailed out in August, I think about 

 the 20th of August. I suppose some of you think it should have been 

 mailed out sooner, but you are taking a long chance on guessing when 

 you go to guessing on the honey crop and what the prices might be, so 

 I just held back until I knew where I was at, waited until the crop 

 reports were in so I could see what the crop was going to be, to get 

 some idea of what the prices would be, because we don't want these 

 reports to go out unless we can depend on them, it is better to be sure 

 and safe and take your time about it. It is no use sending out a recom- 

 mendation imless it is somewhere near right, because if we do we 

 we would get in bad, that is all there would be to it. And the other 

 price letter we just sent out about two weeks ago, the 6th of February 

 I think it was. I presume the most of you have received some of those 

 letters through the mail. We have some of them here too. We did 

 not send out any letter between these two because the prices were 

 nearly the same, except comb honey went up a little bit, but the prices 

 were almost the same thing right straight through. Right lately in 

 some of the markets, especially in Chicago, it has dropped off a little 

 bit, but the other markets seem to be holding up, about holding their 

 own right straight through. So that these prices are the same thing, 

 you will notice, as the first ones, except the comb honey is five cents 

 a pound more. With that exception it is about the same as the report 

 we sent out in August. Those are the prices that mostly all bee-keepers 

 have been receiving, and what the government reports read, about the 

 same as these prices right alolig. 



The President. — You have heard the report of the Chairman. 

 Are there any questions or any suggestions, any discussion of this? 

 I would be glad to hear from any one interested. 



Now, I believe we will have a little extra time this forenoon, and 

 we would be very glad to hear from Professor Francis Jager, who has 

 undoubtedly some interesting facts to tell us. You all know him, he 

 needs no introduction. Mr. Jager. (Applause.) 



ADDRESS BY PROFESSOR FRANCIS JAGER. 



(St. Paid, Minn.) 



Ladies and Gentelmen: This is so sudden. I just arrived from 

 Minneapolis, and I never knew I was on the program here at all. I 

 just came here to listen and to learn what you people have been doing 

 during the last two years. And I must confess that on some side lines 

 I am a little off the track in the bee business, becuase I have not been 

 keeping in touch with you. And over in Europe — I have spent two 

 summers over in Europe during this last war — it was impossible to 

 get any mail from this country. And, by the way, Dr. PhilUps wrote 

 to me last July a nice letter, and I just received it last week. (Laughter.) 

 And so you must excuse me if I am not straight up to the mark in 

 matters of bee business. I am just beginning to get in touch with the 

 leading men here, and the honey markets, and other things Uke that. 



