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obtained. They can't understand how we can report prices in Chicago 

 for all the cities of the United States for that particular day. 



The honey industry, as I said, has not been thoroughly developed, 

 that is, the price phase of it, because in the Bureau of Markets, as 

 it is called. I believe that we have not had the facilities for carrying 

 that out in its entirety like we have the fruit and vegetable business. 

 We have done the best we could with the facilities we have had at 

 our command, and we believe from the letters we have received and 

 from the trade, and the producers we have talked to, that we have given 

 the people something worth while. These honey bulletins are published 

 only semi-monthlj^, the first and the fifteenth of each month a honey 

 bulletin is pubHshed, and these bulletins are not published in all the 

 market bureau stations that are maintained. " At the present time 

 I believe bulletins are issued only at Washington, Detroit, Denver and 

 San Francisco. I don't know how many of you may be receiving these 

 bulletins. They are put out daily in this form (the speaker held a 

 bulletin in his hand), sho-wang the source of the information in the 

 country, the total receipts on each of the various markets, together 

 with the condition of the market and the range of prices covering the 

 various grades of honey on the particular market. If you are not 

 already receiving those bulletins, from my description of them I know 

 you are in a position to judge whether that is something you want. 



We have many letters coming in to us, month after month, highly 

 praising the work we are doing, and that leads us to believe that the 

 work is well worth while. If you are not receiving these bulletins 

 and you desire to receive them, all that is necessary to do is to write 

 to the Bureau of Markets at any of these cities in which the bulletins 

 are issued, and they will be sent to you semi-monthly, absolutely 

 free of charge. 



I would also like to say in this connection, and I believe I am not 

 betraying any confidence when I say this, that the appropriation made 

 for the next fiscal year is more than likely to be seriously curtailed. 

 The house committee cut the appropriation right and left. I think 

 that is true not only with the appropriation to the Bureau of Markets 

 but also true of the appropriations of a great many other departments. 

 The work next year will depend largely upon the final disposition 

 made of the appropriation by the Senate Committee. I think probably 

 that has already been settled, but I do not know how much is available 

 for market news work the coming year. At any rate as the matter 

 now stands there is a chance that the appropriation will be seriously 

 curtailed, and the work cut down. I am not attempting to say why 

 the appropriation was cut, nor why any appropriations were cut. I 

 do know that there was certain pressure brought to bear to try to do 

 away with market news work. I do know that is the case not only 

 with the market service work, but with the dairy project, with the 

 inspection project, and in fact with all projects. I can easily see where 

 some people might want it done away with, but the people who need 

 the information and who want the information, if they really do need 

 it and want it, I take it will make their wants known. 



Please do not misunderstand me. I am not here lobbying for any 

 appropriation; that matter, I presume, has been settled. I merely 



