ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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Now Minnesota produces 400,000 

 pounds of butter and in the last year 

 sold 61,000,000 pounds of butter at 35 

 cents. 



The supply was increased over a 

 thousand per cent. The price went up 

 500 per cent. 



Another reason: 



When this country had only 20,000 

 miles of railroads — the freight rates 

 and those things were low; the men 

 who had railroad stocks got smaller 

 dividends; the rates were very low. 



Now we have a railroad to every 

 village and town and the railroad 

 rates are three times higher; the more 

 railroads they build, the higher are the 

 rates. 



So, also, I might say with honey; as 

 soon as you produce so much honey 

 that we can have it the whole year 

 through, without stopping for nine 

 months, the price of honey will go up. 



Just as long as people can have it 

 only for two weeks and no more, the 

 price will not rise. 



By all means, I say, produce more 

 honey. 



Mr. Wheeler— What is the name of 

 your firm, in Minnesota? 



Professor Yaeger — The Tri- State 

 Honey Exchange. 



Mr. Burnett— Most commendable. I 

 think he can't be in the position of a 

 gentleman I heard of in Minneapolis 

 some j'ears ago, who was a member 

 of the town council there. You notice 

 that he didn't say anything about St. 

 Paul. 



Father Yaeger — Excuse me. When 

 I come to Chicago, I don't talk about 

 South Chicago. 



Mr. Burnett^I don't think, Mr. 

 President, that is quite fair. I am not 

 going to spare him now, I thought I 

 would. 



We were talking about the Bible in 

 public schools. In Minneapolis some 

 of the members of the board were in 

 doubt as to the advisability of intro- 

 ducing literature of that kind into the 

 public schools, and one man said he 

 didn't know much about it, and they 

 furnished him with a Bible, so that 

 he could study It in the interval be- 

 tween that and the next meeting of 

 the council. 



At the next meeting he was to make 

 his report, and, I understand, he did 

 it somewhat after this fashion: He 

 said, "I have readed that book and I 



see a good deal about St. Paul, but 

 nothing about Minneapolis!" 



Mr. Smith — I believe that we need 

 more information, more scientific in- 

 formation on honey. 



I would like to know, if it would be 

 possible, whenever I put a spoonful of 

 honey in my mouth, something about 

 its value. 



I would like to know, when I eat a 

 spoonful of honey, how much corn 

 meal I would have to eat to get the 

 same value, or how much of any other 

 kind of food. 



I have been reading everything I 

 could get hold of on that line for the 

 past five years and cannot get hold of 

 very much that is of any scientific 

 value. 



I know of a person whom I have 

 been trying to get to eat more honey 

 for the past five years, that goes to a 

 doctor once a week or once in two 

 weeks and gives him $2.00 to inject 

 some medicine into his arm. 



This medicine comes from Italy. 

 This is done in order to get a little 

 iron into the system. 



Well, now I have gathered from 

 reading bee journals that there is iron 

 in honey; that it is there in the best 

 form to be assimilated by the human 

 system. 



Some of our best doctors say you 

 can drink all of the iron that it is 

 possible to get in liquid form into the 

 sj'stem and it does not get into the 

 system by going into the stomach, be- 

 cause it goes into the stomach as iron; 

 it has to go into the stomach in a dif- 

 ferent form. 



I believe Doctor Miller has said that 

 honey contains iron in proper form 

 for the human system to assimilate. 

 He also says that it contains other in- 

 gredients for the system to have. He 

 is a pretty good object lesson. He is 

 over eighty j-ears old and has eaten 

 honey every morning, I believe, for 

 fifty or sixty years, I believe, he says. 



If we could get some scientific 

 statements as to the comparative value 

 of honey, in regard to what other foods 

 have, it would help very largely in the 

 sale of honey, because American peo- 

 ple are waking up to the fact that they 

 should know of the value of foods. 



I saw, in the American Bee Journal, 

 a statement giving the comparative 

 value in cents, in a certain town in 

 Iowa, in different foods, showing that 

 honey is much cheaper than many 



