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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Dec. 25, 1902. 



sion 10 percent. On a SO-cent basket the cost would be from 

 21 cts. to 21'; cts. per basket, about double what it should 

 have been, leaving- to the growers 28'. to 29 cts. per basket 

 — less than cost of production. 



The larger part of the peaches have been sold for less 

 than 50 cts. per basket — many away below that price. In 

 some instances a bill of costs has been rendered. We have 

 had returns of 8 cts. per basket, net. When peaches have 

 sold at wholesale for 25 and 30 cts. per basket, I have known 

 them to retail at 10 to 15 cts. per quart. One season when 

 we were getting from about 50 to 75 cts. per basket for the 

 best grade of peaches, a friend told me that he had seen 

 good peaches oifered for sale on Staten Island for $3.00 per 

 basket. Another season there was only a moderate crop of 

 peaches here, and the crop was a small one generally 

 throughout the country, yet, when the " run " of the Reeve's 

 favorite variety came, there was a " glut ; " and when the 

 "run " of late Crawfords came on there was a worse "glut." 

 So the manipulators said, but, in reality, there was no glut 

 at all. The manipulators of prices were only fixing things 

 to suit themselves, but to the injury of the growers. 



I then saw what was the trouble, the great trouble, 

 with farming. If there is manipulation of prices with one 

 product, then there must be the same with all products, if it 

 is worth while. It is just the same with honey, without a 

 question. 



\ * The Weekly Budget. * \ 



Mr. Morley PettiT, of Ontario, Canada, was one of 

 the very prominent young men at the recent Chicago- 

 Northwestern convention. His impression of that meeting 

 is expressed as follows in a letter we received from him 

 Dec. 12 : 



Dear Mr. York : — The convention fully repaid me for 

 coming, although it was 400 miles. Not only were the 

 discussions pleasant and profitable, but the meeting with 

 men whom I have known for years through bee-literature 

 added materially to my enjoyment of the convention. It is 

 so much better to know flesh-and-blood men than paper 

 men. While you are shaking hands your little differences 

 of opinion fade away into the vague regions of " locality." 

 Fraternally yours, Morley Pettit. 



To Foreign Subscribers. — Occasionally it seems neces- 

 sary for us to say, for the information of foreign bee-keep- 

 ers, that none of our special offers found anywhere ap- 

 ply to them. They apply only where domestic postage 

 rates are in force, Neither do we export queen-bees. But 

 we mail bee-books at regular rates where the book postage is 

 the same as in the United States. Whenever we get a for- 

 eign remittance on a combination offer of the Bee Journal 

 and something else, we simply apply it all on the subscrip- 

 tion to the Bee Journal, as in that way the subscriber gets 

 full value for his money. 



Please remember, foreign readers, that our special club- 

 bing or combination offers do not apply to you. They could 

 not, as all know that there is extra postage to those coun- 

 tries, so we intend our. special offers for those countries only 

 to which our pound postage rate applies. 



Dr. Miller of All States. — We have received this 

 from Dr. C. C. Miller, of Marengo, McHenry Co., Illinois. 



Mr. Editor : — On page 788, I see my name mentioned 

 among those present from other States at the Chicago con- 

 vention. This is to give you notice that I still reside in 

 McHenry county, and that said county has not yet been 

 moved out of the State of Illinois — indeed, it has not yet 

 been jacked up on wheels for that purpose. 



c. C. Miller. 



When first reading the above, we wondered how we 

 were going to get out of the dilemma we had gotten our- 



selves and also the good Doctor into. An easy exit immedi- 

 ately suggested itself to us. Doesn't Dr. Miller belong to 

 all the States ? Of course he does. He lives (apiculturally 

 and " bee-literaturally "' ) all over the United States as well 

 as in the rest of the world. We know he eats and sleeps in 

 Illinois, but that is a very small part of his real life. 



Now, haven't zve gotten out of the difficulty fairly well ? 

 Of course i9r. Tl/Z/Ztv- didn't have to get out of any scrape. 

 Physically he's still in McHenry County, Illinois. In every 

 other way he's everywhere where bee-keeping and bee-keep- 

 ers exist. And when his new book — " Forty Years Among 

 the Bees" — is out, he will very soon thereafter be more 

 scattered than ever, for every(bee)body will want to read 

 about him and his life work. 



Later. — A day or two after writing the foregoing we 

 received this from Mr. Abbott. 



Dear Mr. York : — I notice your editorial about those 

 present at the Northwestern from other States, among them 

 Dr. Miller is named. What county does he hail from, any- 

 way ? I guess you are correct, he is big enough to belong 

 to the United States, and good enough for any State. 



Fraternally yours, E. T. Abbott. 



It will be noticed this agrees with the explanation we 

 had already written. So it might have been a bigger mis- 

 take. 



Texas Honey. — Louis H. SchoU says in the Progres- 

 sive Bee-Keeper, that southwest Texas alone will use, dur- 

 ing the coming season, not less than 20 car-loads of tin 

 cans to be filled with honey for strictly family use. 



Mr. E. J. Root, 90 West Broadway, New York, N. Y., 

 is a correspondent of the London Grocer and other journals. 

 Well, what of it ? Who cares if he is ? There's this of it : 

 He is a brother to W. P. Root, the " Stenog " of Gleanings 

 in Bee-Culture, has a warm side toward bee-keepers, and is 

 in a position to get before a large class of readers, whom 

 the bee-papers never reach, information about honey that 

 may do us a whole lot of good. Witness the following clip- 

 ping from the London Grocer : 



" Honey is a valuable and wholesome article of food, 

 which is not so much seen on our breakfast tables — and on 

 our readers' counters — as it ought to be; but it will prob- 

 ably be taken up commercially one of these days. A Colo- 

 nial Office report on Malta, mentions that honey is one of 

 the products of that British island. In the northwest por- 

 tion, overlying the upper coralline limestone, are unculti- 

 vated lands suitable for the growth of the wild thyme. A 

 firm at Birchircara cultivate the bee on a rational and com- 

 mercial basis, and the honey produced is of the first quality. 

 The output could be increased were it not for the destruc- 

 tion of the thyme, which is, when dry, collected for fuel." 



Honey as a Health-Food is the name of a 16- 

 page leaflet (3'2x6 inches) which is designed to help in- 

 crease the demand and sale of honey. The first part is 

 devoted to a consideration of " Honey as Food," written 

 by Dr. C. C. Miller. The last part contains " Honey-Cook- 

 ing Recipes" and "Remedies Using Honey." It should be 

 widely circulated by every one who has honey for sale. It 

 is almost certain to make good customers for honey. We 

 know, for we aro using it ourselves. 



Prices, prepaid — Sample for 2 cts.; 10 for 10 cts.; 25 

 for 20 cts.; 50 for 35 cts.; 100 for 65 cts.; 250 for $1.50; 500 

 for $2.75 ; 1000 for $5.00. If you wish your business card 

 printed at the bottom of the front page, add 25 cts. to your 

 order. 



Please send us Names of Bee-Keepers who do not now 



get the American Bee Journal, and we will send them sam- 

 ple copies. Then you can very likely afterward get them 

 subscriptions, for which work we offer valuable premiums 

 in nearly every number of this journal. You can aid much 

 by sending in the names and addresses when writing us on 

 other matters. 



