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Mb. Wheeler. — I think, Dr. Miller, that the bees will consume 

 all the uncapped honey in the fall the first thing, and none will be 

 left in the spring. 



Mr. Leonard. — I think, Dr. Miller, that Dr. Phillips is down on 

 you also because you jacked him up for smoking. 



Dr. Miller. — Well, that is a thing in the future. We have done 

 with booze. (Applause.) That reminds me of a picture in the paper 

 I saw the other day. A pipe and a cigar and a cigarette were bundled 

 up together, and some reformers were out there, and they were saying 

 "They are looking at us," they were looking at the tobacco question. 

 Now in two or three years they will be turning to that. 



But now to come back to foul brood, a more pleasant subject, 

 (laughter and applause.) I do want to have you give that thing the 

 consideration I believe it deserves. I believe that that sort of treat- 

 m3nt will be a saving of thousands of dollars over the plan of taking 

 away all the brood when the brood is in full play. Now that is all I 

 want to take your time for. (Applause.) 



MARKET INFORMATION ON HONEY FURNISHED BY THE 



BUREAU OF MARKETS. 

 (By W. H. Hall.) 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: When Mr. Markham some 

 months ago wrote to the Bureau of Markets asking that someone from 

 this Bureau address the meeting on our methods of gathering and 

 marketing, or rather gathering market news and information, I was 

 just a little at a loss to know how to answer him, first because our work 

 consists mainly of the gathering and disseminating of price infor- 

 mation on fruits and vegetables. We have never done very much with 

 the honey price information, that is, we had not done much on that 

 subject up to about a year ago. 



I think we all perhaps realize fully the benefits that are derived 

 from the gathering of all possible information on the market before 

 we market our crop. I happen to have been raised on a farm myself, 

 and I can well remember- the time when it would have meant dollars 

 and cents to my people, had we possessed more information relative 

 to the various markets to which we had access. 



I would like first to tell you a little something of the history of 

 the market news work as conducted by the Bureau of Markets. This 

 idea was conceived and put into operation by two or three men at 

 Washington, all of whom still work in the Bureau, and at the beginning 

 the work of course was necessarily a little crude, and was very small 

 in comparison with the work as it is being carried on to-day. It con- 

 sisted first of the establishment of what is known as market stations, 

 that is, stations in the large consuming cities, of a very few large cities, 

 such as Chicago, New York, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, San Francisco. 

 A market reporter was stationed in each of those cities, who covered 

 the market products each morning and gathered the price information 

 on the various products, fruits and vegetables, and from the railroads 

 obtained a statement of the total carlot receipts for that particular 

 day, and wired this information to Washington very early that morn- 



