THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW: 



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as Mt. Mandelbatitn has already told lis; 

 and, also, that he iiiiyht keep the goods 

 comins^ his way, which he did fio/ tell us. 

 A retailer has a right to order direct from 

 the producer if he sees fit, and a producer 

 \\SiS a I'ig/it to t/ic irpiifalioii /lis product 

 Sai'is. 



It is lik?ly there would be but a small 

 proportion of producers get orders direct 

 from the retailer, for the difference be- 

 tween local and car load freights would 

 make a large percent of the ditTerence, 

 so that there would be little or no sav- 

 ing; yet, if I produce a fine and trust- 

 worthy article, and a retailer finds my 

 name and address on my goods, many 

 times I would get orders direct, even 

 though the cost to the retailer w-as greater. 

 Both the retailer and the cotsioner have 

 a right to kiiozc where their goods come 

 from, and the producer has a right to 

 make his product kno.vn. I also refer 

 you to "Armor advertising his articles; 

 Pabst his malt; and Pearline;" and I say to 

 the brethren, my fellow producers, ad- 

 vertise your honey. 



Mr. Mandelbaum takes sides decidedl3' 

 in favor of paying spot cash for honey. 

 Amen. .hue)!. Amen'. Stick to that 

 friend Mandelbaum, and peg away until 

 the rest have to do the same. I have 

 never "consigned" more than one or two 

 little lots of honey; and, more, I never 

 intend to. Money was made as a medium 

 of exchange; and let' s use it. Thousands 

 of commission houses that are worth 

 their thousands are asking poor p'-oducers 

 with hundreds or less to furnish them ad- 

 ditional capital on which to do business 

 — a shame and a disgrace. No wonder 

 some producers disregard moral obliga- 

 tions. I can say this: The house Mr. 

 Mandelbaum represents bought much 

 honey in Colorado last year that could 

 not have been bought except for spot 

 cash. Yes, I am glad so strong a house 

 as the S. T. Fish company has set the 

 pace inaugurating the cash basis. 



Some may say that I am inconsistent, 

 because I am interested in a company 

 that handles honey on commission. I am 



a producer, and, with other producers, 

 have joined ourselves together into a co- 

 operative stock company, and honey sold 

 by our company pays its commission to 

 defray expenses. Surplus over expenses 

 is the property of those paying it in, and 

 it goes back to them. This company is 

 an association operating for mutual bene- 

 fit and the benefit of all producers, but to 

 be a lawful concern is incorporated under 

 the laws of the State. I refer to it because 

 of the fact that in Mr. Mandelbaum's 

 article he speaks of having bought much 

 honey in Colorado, and also of having 

 some trouble with an association which 

 did not live up to its contracts. I am 

 glad to say to the readers of the Review 

 that the association referred to by Mr. 

 Mandelbaum was not the Colorado one. 



I want to call the attention of Mr. 

 Mandelbaum to one part of his article 

 that does a grave injustice to Colorado 

 apiarists. It is this: Just at the close of 

 page 365, beginning of last paragraph, is 

 the following: "This was a year in Colo- 

 rado's favor, for it had a crop, while 

 many localities were without. We found 

 some cases of comb honey that had moths, 

 candied combs, partly filled combs, and 

 interwoven combs," etc. Now, it would 

 not be strange if some candied honey 

 were found in Colorado stock, for some 

 of our honey does candy freelv; but if 

 Mr. Mandelbaum can tell us where the 

 wax moth is found in Colorado I would 

 be thankful. I am pretty familiar with 

 the part of the State from which they 

 bought honey the past fall, and I never 

 heard of the bee moth in it. At our con- 

 ventions many have asked about the 

 moth, and it is a fact that I have never 

 found moths here, nor any apiarist that 

 even knows the moth, unless having 

 made its acquaintance elsewhere. Combs 

 can stand any where here for years and 

 never a wax moth. 



Now my objection to the quotation 

 which I have to make, is that it will be 

 interpieted by 99 out of every 100 

 readers to mean that it was Colorado 

 honey that had the moths in it, when 



