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supplies are offered, and if you find what 

 you want, send for it. They are all 

 offered at great bargains. 



This case should appeal to us all. 

 Kindly remember it. 



Address Miss M. E. Enas, 119 Hill 

 St., San Francisco, Calif., for any infor- 

 mation desired. 



Slatisllcs on Honey, Etc. 



JOHN HANDEL. 



I was much pleased at the way you, 

 Mr. Editor, expressed yourself in regard 

 to the proposed bounty on sugar, on 

 page 439. Here is an article which I 

 wrote for the Savanna Journal, and 

 was published on March 10, 1892, on 

 the unfairness in reporting the honey 

 industry : 



" How the annual agricultural statis- 

 tics are gathered, by whom, and for 

 what purpose, are questions which the 

 producer should consider. That a cer- 

 tain class is benefited by the act, I do 

 not doubt ; that it is not the producer is 

 a fact which no one can deny. Why 

 our agricultural and home papers pub- 

 lish the reports free of charge, is what 

 puzzles me. That some of these reports 

 do not come anywhere near the truth I 

 can prove. That most of them were not 

 intended to be true I have reason to 

 believe. 



" To show why I complain, I will take 

 for example the oflScial report of the 

 amount and value of honey produced in 

 Carroll county in 1891. Although I 

 acknowledge that that year was a poor 

 season for honey, yet if you will excuse 

 me this time for ' blowing hard,' I will 

 say, and I am able to prove that my crop 

 alone will amount to more than that re- 

 port (as published in the papers) gives 

 the whole county credit for. If the 

 same misrepresentation is practiced 

 throughout Jhe Union, as Carroll county 

 has done in reporting her honey crop, 

 then we need not wonder why Uncle 

 Sam was persuaded to disregard our 

 industry, and combine with the manu- 

 facturer of sugar to crowd this insignifi- 

 cant competitor to the wall. It Is only 

 by misrepresenting our industry that 

 Uncle Sam agreed to put his hand in ray 

 pocket and take out a part of the profit 

 and give it to my competitor, the sugar 

 manufacturer. 



" Now, I am not lobbying for a bounty 

 on honey. The bee-keepers are, as a 

 general thing, as honest and industrious 

 as the bees they keep, and are able to 



stand their ground even against cut- 

 throat competition. What we demand 

 is an honest count of the value of our 

 product, and if that shows that the 

 industry is not worth protecting against 

 robbers, then we will step out and take 

 our chances with other small fry. In 

 the meantime the people of this country 

 should haul in that shingle which reads, 

 ' Equal rights for all, and special privi- 

 leges to none.' " 

 Savanna, Ills. 



TraJe-Mark for Bee-Keeners. 



THOS. JOHNSON. 



I have read some of the correspondence 

 to the Bee Journal in regard to estab- 

 lishing a uniform trade-mark for mark- 

 ing honey in different forms, and some 

 urged that the Bee-Keepers' Union 

 should take some action in regard to the 

 matter. I should bitterly oppose such 

 action, for the reason that such mark 

 would be very quickly used by every 

 counterfeiter of honey, if there are 

 such. 



I use three rubber stamps in my busi- 

 ness. The first I stamp on all corres- 

 pondence, which prints my name and 

 address, and business. 



I purchase the best No. 1 sections, 

 made of the whitest lumber, and stamp 

 all sections with " Pure Comb Honey, 

 from," etc. In putting up extracted- 

 honey in different forms, I use a stamp 

 reading " Pure Extracted-Honey, from," 

 etc. 



The three stamps, one ink-pad, and 

 one bottle of ink, cost $3.25, delivered 

 at my express office. 



The foregoing stamps I use for my 

 own private trade-mark, and I ask no 

 other. 



Right here I want to call attention to 

 the following facts : 



You all have more or less good ladies 

 in your immediate neighborhood, that 

 have the reputation of making the best 

 butter (clean and neat). When they 

 take their butter to market, you all 

 know that it commands the best price, 

 and sells at a premium. Furthermore, 

 I have seen some merchants buy the 

 article of a few pounds, and sell a few 

 hundred pounds, and not 10 per cent, of 

 the butter he sold was as represented, 

 for the reason the good ladies had no 

 way to distinguish their butter from any 

 other. Just so with the honey trade. 



You have all ample time to prepare 

 for the honey fiow and trade for the year 



