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answer this question: Is sugar as 

 high there as here? 



Mr. Bodenschatz — No, it is cheaper. 

 It is about 9 cents a pound, between 

 eight and nine cents; German pounds 

 are heavier than American. 



Mr. Miller — There is one point that 

 has not been taken into consideration. 

 Mr. Bull sells honey in small pack- 

 ages; it costs money for packages; it 

 costs labor to put them up. The honey 

 has to be melted before it is put in 

 packages. 



Mr. France sells his honey in large 

 quantities, and of course he can sell 

 it at a lower price. It is not worth so 

 much in 60 lb. cans as when it is put 

 in small packages, two, three or five 

 lbs. 



Mr. Wheeler — I would like to ask 

 this man from Germany one question 

 — In regard to the manner of the Ger- 

 man bee-keepers dealing with one an- 

 other. In regard to the purity of their 

 products. 



There is one point that has been 

 missed, that is, the inclination of each 

 individual bee-keeper to injure the sale 

 of his brother bee-keeper's goods by 

 intimating that his is better. You 

 read that in the daily paper, and bee- 

 keepers have sort of harped on this: 

 Our honey is better than so and so's. 



Glucose people take it up and ac- 

 cuse bee-keepers of adulterating hon- 

 ey, . and there is a general feeling of 

 adulteration among the public. I want 

 to ask this man, if in Germany the 

 people there accuse one another of 

 adulterating honey, as they do in the 

 United States? 



Mr. Lang — The question is Is such 

 honey as good as it is here? 



Mr. Wheeler — No, but is the accusa- 

 tion made there as to the adulteration 

 of honey? 



Mr. Lang — No, not there. 



Mr. Wheeler — They believe in one 

 another. 



Mr. Lang — People are not so un- 

 trustworthy as they are here. 



In America, generally speaking, if 

 you want to sell something and if a 

 man does not know you he thinks you 

 are trying to beat him. 



Mr. Wheeler — There are people who 

 try to make others think that their 

 honey is the only pure honey. 



Mr. Lang — I never heard anything 

 of adulteration of honey in the old 

 country. 



Mr. Grabbe — That could not be done 



over there at all; it is a law; they 

 make a law for breaking a law. 



We talk about bee-keepers forming a 

 society, clubbing together. I remem- 

 ber, when I was a little boy over there 

 in Germany, when my uncle went to 

 the first bee-keepers' .convention, when 

 he came home he told my grand- 

 mother: "I never found better people 

 than bee-keepers are." 



Those other men what mix up that 

 honey with sugar (bee-keeperg here in 

 the LTnited States 'are not such mean 

 men to do such a thing) — over there in 

 Germany it cannot be done. 



Mr. Wheeler — I don't accuse anybody 

 of doing it. I don't think they adulter- 

 ate it. 



Mr. Grabbe — In tTie old country al- 

 most the same price was got for honey 

 as for butter. And another thing over 

 there. I have been over there a couple 

 of times from here, and at the hotel 

 over there, for breakfast, always you 

 have honey on the table; they eat very 

 much more honey over "there than we 

 do here. I asked my aunt, "What are 

 those people buying so much honey 

 for?" "They say if you eat honey on 

 the New Year they will be sweet the 

 whole year." Now if we eat honey here 

 we will get much sweeter. 



Mr. Wheeler — The point I want to 

 make is, and I think it is a good one 

 for bee-keepers to think about: In the 

 old country the people believe in each 

 other; they believe eadh other is 

 honest, and they do not try to accuse 

 eath other of being dishonest, and in 

 that waj' they sell more honey. 

 * You have to know people here, and 

 know them, personally, before they be- 

 lieve that what you have is good stuff, 

 because they seem lo think. that bee- 

 keepers as a rule adulterate their 

 honey. I do not have any more trouble 

 than the rest of you but it is in the air. 



I talked to a man the other day who 

 got hold of sweet clover honey. He 

 said — "It doesn't taste right. It hag a 

 kind of muddy color; it is no honey at 

 all. I know good honey.'' And I 

 could not persuade him otherwise. He 

 bought my honey anfl he seemed to 

 think it was pure beca'use the taste 

 suited him. ' vh 



I think if people \^uld use more care 

 in selling their honey product, and not 

 try to knock the other fellow, they 

 would succeed better., 



Mr. Dadant — Mr. President: Since 

 we last met here our^Vice-President, 



