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find a market for all of your honey? I 

 guess there are not any; they all dis- 

 pose of it. 



Mr. Pyles^ — I have something' like 

 five hundred pounds of extracted hon- 

 ey, produced last year; I did not vote 

 on the question asked. A man can 

 find a market for all that he can sell 

 and some more, but it depends on the 

 price you want. You can sell it for 

 some kind of a price. This matter is 

 something that you have got to take 

 the locality into consideration. In the 

 Southern part of Illinois, they sell all 

 their honey at one price, twenty cents 

 a pound, extracted and comb honey, 

 and they cannot produce as much as 

 they can consume 



Now it would be profitable, perhaps, 

 for those people to go into the selling 

 of honey, some of them at least, not 

 for everybody, because they would be 

 all sellers and no consumers. Each one 

 would be buying from the wholesaler. 



At that price, twenty cents, there is 

 something in the selling of honey, buy- 

 ing it at wholesale and retailing it. 

 It does not make any difference what 

 kind of honey it is. I have seen pure 

 honey-dew sold in sections in the 

 southern part of the state of Ilinois at 

 twenty cents. You must take into con- 

 sideration at all times the locality. 



What might be beneficial for peo- 

 ple in the selling of honey in Chicago 

 or Peoria, might not be practical forty 

 or fifty miles from Peoria. 



We produce a good deal of honey at 

 our place; we wholesale all of our hon- 

 ey. We cannot afford to go to Pe- 

 oria to retail it. There are men work- 

 ing on the streets of Peoria all the 

 time, selling honey. We sell our honey 

 to a commission man and he finds a 

 market himself; that is the practical 

 way for us to dispose of our honey; I 

 work with Mr. Kildow. 



Pres. Huffman — Has any one else 

 anything to say on this subject? I 

 think Mr. Pyles' statement is correct; 

 it all depends on the locality, as to 

 what 50U can get for it and what you 

 have to pay for it in regard to the re- 

 tailing of honey. We have a question 

 in the Question Box: 



Melting Honey. 



Would it be best to melt honey be- 

 fore selling honey at wholesale? 



Pres. Huffman — Do you think it is 

 best for the retailer to melt his honey? 

 I sell all of mine, granulated. 



A Member — I do not wish to handle 

 honey that has 'been melted by any one 

 else. I would rather melt it and sell it; 

 nothing but the melted for me. 



Mr. Pyles — 'Another question that 

 comes right along there: If you buy 

 hone J', granulated, that would be evi- 

 dence it is pure — is that the fact of 

 the case ? That is a statement that has 

 been made. 



Pres. Huffman — It is so considered. 



Pres. Huffman — Any one else any- 

 thing to say along this line? We have 

 Mr. Baldridge, of St. Charles, Illinois, 

 name before us for a paper on "Our 

 Most Consistent Honey Producing 

 Plants." 



Mr. Baldridge — I was requested to 

 prepare something on the subject but I 

 have not done so. 



Pres. Huffman — Perhaps you can give 

 us a talk along the line of the subject — 

 "Our Most Consistent Honey Producing 

 Plants." 



Mr. Baldridge — There are two or 

 three plants. I should place at the 

 head of them alsika clover because 

 everybody — that is nearly every farmer 

 — is willing to grow alsike clover. Sweet 

 clover will produce more honey to the 

 acre, but the trouble is to get the 

 farmer to grow it; especially in the 

 north. In some parts of Mississippi^ 

 and Alabama sweet clover is grown 

 as a farm crop. Some grow it with 

 oats for hay. The second crop the 

 second year is harvested for seed. 

 C>ats and sweet clover cured as hay 

 brings as high a price in the south as 

 alfalfa hay. 



I heard a man say a few days ago — 

 Mr. Joseph W^ing, of Mechanicsburg, 

 Ohio, who is well known as an expert 

 in growing alfalfa, that he considered 

 sweet clover hay equal to alfalfa hay. 

 No one called upon him to speak further 

 on that subject, but I heard him make 

 that statement as a Farmers' Institute. 

 If it is cut at the right stage and cured 

 as it should be, it is worth as much. 

 Alfalfa is w^orth nothing if you let it 

 get dead ripe; that is, not worth much 

 for hay. I was once on a farm in Mis- 

 sissippi, near Prairie Station, where I 

 saw nearly one hundred acres of sweet 

 clover and it was being cut for hay 

 while I was there. They simply let it 

 wilt, and did not try to cure it. The 

 next day or so after being cut they 

 drew it to the barn and put it in the 

 same as people would put clover on 



