338 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



Secretary S. ^\'. Snyder. Center Pu'nt, Iowa, writes that plans 

 are already under way for a rousinj; state meet'ng of the Iowa As- 

 s(3ciation next winter at Des Moines. Tht>se lov/a bee-keepers are 

 a hustling- lot and will no doubt put out a good prr.gram. which will 

 lie published in the Rf.\ii:w as soon as prepared. 



Why have }-ou not hired your neighlior's Ix.y to clean your 

 empty comi) honey supers, section holders, and separators? A good 

 lively boy can clean forty to fifty a day and the work will be easy 

 and pleasant for h'm. Offer him two or two and a half cents a ^U])er 

 and let him work evenings after school. ;ind Saturdays. If von liave 

 boys of your own gi\"e them the jol) and pa}- theni for it. 



The Fixed Retail Price. 



The Associated Ad^-ertising• Clubs of America ;ulopted unani- 

 mously a resolution to faA-or legislation to allow the producer of an 

 article the right to fix the reta-1 price at which it must be sold. The 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association should be interested, in some such 

 plan to get rid of the discrepancy between t!ic price the producer 

 gets and the price the consumer paAS. If the honev producer could 

 fix the jobbing, wholesale and retail prices as is diMic ])y manufac- 

 turers of many other products, we would at least know who and 

 how much the middlemen were getting. A little more light on the 

 profits made and the losses sustained would not hurt us an}-. This 

 is the age of publicity and we have a right to knrtw where the profits 

 and probable losses go. 



One of the stock phrases of some dealers is that their margin 

 of profit is largely necessary on account of the great risks they run. 

 which gives us no light on the question we are interested in. yiz. : 

 "What does distribution cost?" This is a question we are slowly 

 working- out. It wdll take time but it can be determined. 



An Uncapping Machine. 



Mr. Eugene Baker of Los Angeles, Cal.. is the in\ entor of an 

 uncapping device upon which he has been working for several 

 years. In describing its operation he says: The construction is 

 simplicity itself and the machine is remarkably quick in action and 

 easy to operate. ^letal spacers. Hofifman projectors, or wide top 

 bars do not interfere in the least with its operation. It takes all 

 styles equally, as well as plain frames. The knives are heated by 



