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or so, there is no way in the world I know 

 of, outside of that. 



A Member — Mr. President, I tried Mr. 

 Bull's plan of looking in front of the hives 

 for the young bees that can't fly yet. If 

 you are too late to find out that way, you 

 can depend on other circumstances. If 

 there is a flow of honey and the bees are 

 working in the supers, sometimes you can 

 tell by looking in the super and finding 

 that the bees have all gone out of the 

 super, then if you \vill take out the supers 

 and look below, you will find the queen 

 cells there. That is the only way I would 

 know. 



Mr. Russow — Mr. President, I find out — 

 I don't speak very good English; you must 

 excuse me — I found out last year. I have 

 been in the bee business for about eigh- 

 teen j'^ears, and I never feed them.. 



Mr. President — We have another ques- 

 tion: What is the average price of comb 

 honey and extracted honey, retail? It 

 would take some investigation to find out, 

 I suppose. 



The Secretary — I sxippose we could take 

 a roll-call of those that are here, and find 

 out. That is the way to do that. 



The President — Mr. Bull has suggested 

 that I call the names of some of the parties 

 here, and have them name the average 

 retail price of extracted and comb honey in 

 his locality. Mr. Smith, what are they 

 selling for with you? 



Mr. Smith — Twenty-five cents a pound, 

 for extracted. 



The President — And the comb? 



Mr. Smith — I don't know. 



Mr. Haan — The same. 



Mr. Hassinger — It will probably be six- 

 teen cents. 



The President — What do you get? 



Mr. Hassinger — Not much more, two or 

 three cents more on an average. 



Mr. Wheeler — The retail price is about 

 twenty-five to thirty cents, in a small way. 



Mr. Sivert — I have none to sell. 



Mr. Kanneberg — Eighteen cents, ex- 

 tracted. 



Mr. Wheeler — I believe I am too high 

 on the comb honey, as a rule. I sell it 

 from twenty-five to twenty-eight cents. 



Mr. Russow — Twenty-five cents — I get, 

 in quantities, and then people come to my 

 house. I get seventy-five cents now, that 

 is for three pounds, extracted. 



Mr. Coppin — In my section the comb 

 honey is retailing at twehty-five cents and 

 the extracted honey at twenty cents. J 



Mr. Baldiidge — In my locality the "price 

 is twenty-five cents the year around, for 

 either, give them their choice, but I sell 



my honey at net weight, my comb honey 

 at net weight, no wood. 



Mr. Fischer — I think about the average 

 is twenty-five cents for the extracted, for 

 the comb I don't know. 



Mr. Simmons — I sell three pounds for 

 seventy-five cents, extracted. Comb honey 

 I hardly know it when I see it, it is so long 

 since I have seen it. 



Mr. Blume — Seventy-five cents for three 

 pounds. 



Mr. MacNeill — The same. 



The President — I think this is sufficient, 

 so that we can get a general idea of the 

 average retail price. 



The Secretary — Y(ju didn't ask me yet 

 (laughter). 



The President— Mr. Bull. 



The Secretary — Thirty to thirty-two 

 and a half . 



Mr. MacNeill — The champion price- 

 getter! 



The Secretary — I get it. 



Mr. MacNeill— I know it. 



Mr. Hassinger^Mr. President, for the 

 benefit of those that do not know that I 

 am two hundred miles north of here, that 

 we had a large crop of honey, I want to 

 say in regard to a number of bee-keepers 

 in our locality, that they sold honey at 

 ten cents a pound, bat they didn't know 

 what it was worth. When those letters 

 came from the price committee, they 

 thought it was outrageout>, and that they 

 were overdoing it. I .'>acrificed 50 per cent 

 of my local trade to raise the price. I 

 staid from two to three cents above them, 

 and they gradually followed me, till now- 

 some of those who sold at ten cents are 

 selling at fourteen. That accounts for the 

 difference. 



A Member— Why don't they wholesale 

 it? 



Mr. Hassinger — They wouldn't sell it 

 unless they could get more than they get 

 at retail. 



The Secretary — The average of that 

 price is twentj'-three and seven-tenths 

 cents a pound. 



The Prebident — In my town the comb 

 honey retails for thirty-five cents, extracted 

 honey for twenty-five cents. 



A Member — I paid seventy-five cents 

 for two pounds and four ounces in ,Chi- 

 cago. 



The Secretary — I get sixty-five cents for 

 two pounds. 



A Member — ^Airline huney? 



Mr. Kanneberg — Airline honey has been 

 selling for forty-eight cents a pound in 

 my town, comb honey. 



Mr. Smith — What does it cost to sell 

 honey at retail? 



