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aeOROB W. YORK, Editor. 



CHICAGO, IL, AUG, 18, 1904. 



Vol, XLIV— No, 33, 





Editorial Comments 



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Honey Market Quotations. 



We have received the following letter dated Aug-. 6, 

 which shows the side of those who furnish the honey and 

 beeswax market quotations for this journal : 



Friend York : — Lately we have received numerous 

 letters from shippers of honey who expect as much for their 

 crop as the quotations in the market reports of the various 

 bee-papers. They are evidently not aware that these quo- 

 tations are our selling prices, and not the prices dealers are 

 paying for their shipments. In consequence thereof, we 

 would beg to suggest that you, through the columns of your 

 journal, impress upon the minds of these shippers this dif- 

 ference, and enlighten them on the subject, as the market 

 reports, apparently, are a delusion to the bee-keeping fra- 

 ternity. 



We are no commission firm, but buy for cash at a close 

 margin of profit. 



Just returned from a ten days' trip through the North, 

 and, in looking over the mail, find a number of letters of 

 the strain above mentioned. Yours very truly. 



The Frkd W. Muth jCo. 



We supposed that those who read the market quotations 

 in the bee-papers understood that the prices given are the 

 ones the dealers secure for the honey after they receive 

 the shipment ; and that the honey-producer or shipper will 

 get those prices less the commission charged for hand- 

 ling, and also less the freight and cartage charges. 



Of course, when a honey-dealing firm buys for cash, 

 they^must not be expected to pay the full marketquotations, 

 else where would they get their pay for doing the business ? 



We are very certain that shippers of honey will under- 

 stand this matter all right if they will only give it a little 

 thought. The honorable honey-dealers should be encour- 

 aged, for they are doing a good work for both the producer 

 and the consumer. But in so doing they should not be be- 

 grudged the necessary commission or profit on the honey 

 they handle. 



Nominating National Candidates. 



We have received the following notice from General 

 Manager France in reference to the nomination of candi- 

 dates in advance of the annual election of the National Bee- 

 Keepers' Association to be held in November this year : 



OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION TO 

 BE NOMINATED IN ADVANCE OF ELECTION. 



One of the latest amendments to the constitution of the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association provides that the Board 

 of Directors may " prescribe equitable rules and regulations 



governing the nominations for the several officers," and 

 the Board has just decided that the General Manager shall, 

 in August, publish in the bee-journals a call for a postal- 

 card vote of the members of the Association for the nomi- 

 nation of candidates for the several offices (stating the 

 offices) to be filled at the next election. On Oct. 1, the Gen- 

 eral Manager and one other disinterested member chosen 

 annually by the Board of Directors, shall count the votes, 

 and the two men receiving the greatest number of votes for 

 each respective office are to be candidates for said office ; 

 the names of the nominees and the offices for which they 

 are nominated to be published at once in the bee-journals. 



In accordance with the foregoing, I hereby ask all 

 members of the National Bee-Keepers' Association to write 

 me their choice of men as candidates for the following 

 offices : 



To succeed Jas. U. Harris, of Grand Junction, Colo., as 

 President. 



To succeed C. P. Dadant, of Hamilton, 111 , as Vice- 

 President. 



To succeed Geo. W. Brodbeck, of Los Angeles, Calif., 

 as Secretary. 



To succeed N. E. France, of Plattevllle, Wis., as Gen- 

 eral Manager. 



To succeed E. Whitcomb, of Friend, Nebr., as Director. 



To succeed W. Z. Hutchinson, of Flint, Mich., as 

 Director. 



To succeed Udo Toepperwein, of San Antonio, Tex., as 

 Director. 



October 1 the votes will be counted, and the names of 

 the two men receiving the most votes for each respective 

 office will be published in the bee-journals, then, in Novem- 

 ber, a postal-card ballot will be taken which will decide 

 which of the nominees shall hold the office. 



Send all votes to N. E. France, Platteville, Wis. 



This is in effect what is known as an " informal ballot," 

 in order to discover who are the leading candidates for each 

 office to be filled. Of course, it will not prevent any mem- 

 ber from voting for whomsoever he pleases in the final bal- 

 lot in November, no matter who may lead in the informal 

 ballet. 



More Manufactured Comb-Money Lies. 



This time it is the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Gazette (dated July 

 24,) that has joined the ranks of the enemies of honey-pro- 

 ducers, and published the following batch of misrepresen- 

 tations : 



HONEY-COMBS ARE MADE FROM OIL — ARTIFICIAL PROCESS IS 



GUARDED SEDULOUSLY FROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC 



— CURIOUS USES OF PETROLEUM. 



Among the peculiar uses to which low-grade petroleum 

 and the refuse of the better grades is now being put, is that 

 of the manufacture of artificial honey-combs. There are 

 four factories devoted to this product in different parts of 

 Pennsylvania and Ohio, one of them being in the immediate 

 neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The process for making the 

 combs is said to have been evolved by a petroleum expert 

 only after years of experiment, and it is so much of a secret 

 that not only are visitors excluded from the factories in 

 which the combs are made, but the locations of the latter 



