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when all the other articles have gone 

 up owing to the high cost of living? 



Mr. Bull — I have only found one ans- 

 wer: Most of the bee-keepers have 

 not got nerve enough to ask the price 

 honey is worth. 



A lady today had 10 pounds of honey 

 at a cost of $1.40. I was delivering 

 5 pounds at $1.25. She asked me the 

 reason why. I simply told her the bee- 

 keeper she got honey from did not 

 know what it was worth. 



Question — At what price does honey 

 become a luxury? 



Mr. Bull — Twenty- Ave cents a 

 pound; above that it is a luxury. 



Mr. Davis — In re^^ard to that ques- 

 tion I saw this sjiftement: A com- 

 parison was given of the food value 

 of honey comparatively with other 

 articles, and I saw in that that the 

 food value of a pound of honey was 

 , about the same as a pound and a half 

 of beef. If other articles run the 

 same, I suppose the answer would be — 

 the way we had to pay for our beef, 

 a pound and a half cost thirty cents. 

 Then, according to that, honey would 

 become a luxury after it was above 

 the price of beef or other articles of 

 equal value. 



President — Miller — Butter is not con- 

 sidered a luxury and butter brings fifty 

 cents. 



A member — I take the position, 

 honey can never be high enough to 

 become a luxury. 



We might ask, at what price pota- 

 ^ toes become a luxury; see the price 

 at which potatoes are sold and yet we 

 eat them every day. 



The real meaning of that is — honey 

 is not a necessity, sugar will take its 

 place. For my ow^n part I prefer to 

 eat honey on all raw fruits in place 

 of sugar, and have done it for the last- 

 two or three years. If everybody did 

 that it would increase the demand. 



Mr. Roehrs — If the nutritive value of 

 honey is double that of a pound of 

 butter, and a pound of butter costs 

 fifty cents, honey ought to cost one 

 dollar a pound because I get more 

 value out of that pound of honey. 

 That may be overdrawn, but at the 

 same time we must not forget that 

 honey is not only valuable as a food, 

 but it is just as valuable as a medicine. 



Last year we had one of our best 

 known bee-keepers here; he told us 

 he w^as eating plenty of honey and that 



it made him well; he said: "The more 

 honey I eat the healthier and better 

 my health is." 



Therefore honey is not a luxury, even 

 if it would cost fifty cents a pound in 

 comparison with other food stuffs we 

 are buying at very high prices at pres- 

 ent. 



We may say we need not eat butter, 

 but we can take a substitute. That 

 is not the question. I think we need 

 honey as a rule for our daily food and 

 medicine, and that it is cheap in com- 

 parison with butter. 



Mr. Williams — If there is any place 

 on earth that it was supposed people 

 were posted on the food value of 

 honey, it would be a bee-keepers' con- 

 vention. 



The government has bulletins — has 

 some charts giving all these values. 

 You can get them for one dollar — large 

 ones. 



Now they give the actual values in 

 calories of honey; a whole list of 

 articles, but that does not tell it. Get 

 a copy of these bulletins giving the 

 food value of honey and it will give 

 you some information. I will give you 

 two or three here: 



Honey has 1,475 calories per pound. 



Beefsteak has 1,091 calories per 

 pound. 



That does not take into consideration 

 protein in the beefsteak which the 

 honey has not. 



It is hard to compare one food with 

 another because there are so many 

 factors to consider. 



Then oysters are compared with 

 honey : 



1,475 calories, honey; 230 calories, 

 oysters. So, if oysters are worth thirty 

 cents, honey would be worth something 

 like $.60 — so you see the difference that 

 is in calories. 



If bee-keepers do not know these 

 things, how are our children going to 

 know them? and that is the object of 

 getting out this comparative food value 

 of honey. 



People will eat things and pay good 

 high prices that do not have the food 

 value of honey, and they think they 

 are nourishing and good for their 

 health; but, if people knew what food 

 value there was in honey, there would 

 be twenty times more honey eaten if 

 you could get it. But you cannot get it. 



Those things are valuable and you 

 can get this information by sending 



