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Honey Prices. 



Not alone to justify the standing of the South as a honey 

 producing region, is cooperative marketing advisable. The un- 

 fair prices paid many southern producers by unscrupulous buyers 

 of the North and South, give a more important reason for in- 

 telligent marketing. In one region, many barrels of honey 

 were bought during the war at six cents per pound, and resold 

 in New York City to a foreign government for seventeen and a 

 half cents per pound. Surely this is not fair to the producer, 

 whose honey, in this case, was one of the finest samples ever seen 

 by the writer anywhere. It is quite likely that the average south- 

 ern producer has received less for his honey than the producer of 

 the other parts of this country, and in many cases, considering 

 his product as graded by flavor, color, and body, he deserves 

 a higher market price. 



Honey Exchanges. 



Organization is beginning in parts of the South, mainly through 



Fig. 53. This Georgia beekeeper has a honey route and serves his cus- 

 tomers direct from the tank in the back of his car. 



