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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



adjoining states. Mi-. SchoU says that the 

 beekeepers of Texas feel that there ought to 

 be some kind of medium thru which tliere 

 may be an interc4iange of beekeepers' news 

 matter and other information. Mr. Sehol) 

 further says that this need has become so 

 vehement, and so urgent have been the per- 

 suasions on the part of many beekeejjers, 

 that he has finally decided to get out a bee- 

 keepers' " newspaper." It is Mr. Scholl's 

 idea to emphasize the news feature of his 

 journal, making it a " newspaper " in very- 

 fact. Along with the zealous reporting of 

 beekeepers' " news " in his field, the editor 

 will aim to make the educational influence 

 of his journal as great as possible. 



The new publication is to be a monthly, 

 and we understand it will make its fiist ap- 

 pearance very shortly. Price, 50c a year. 



Mr. Scholl will have the well-wishes of all 

 forward-looking beekeepers in his efforts to 

 advance the apicultural interests of Texas 

 and the Southwest. Gleanings wishes him 

 all the success possible in his new venture. 



The Starch-glucose Trust Ordered Dis- 

 solved 



According to the news dispatches of 

 Nov. 13 the starch trust, with a capital of 

 eighty million dollars, has been adjudged 

 guilty of " unfair methods of compeid- 

 tion " in violation of the Sherman anti- 

 trust law. The defendants, including The 

 Corn Products Refining Co., according to 

 the decree, " shall be divided in such man- 

 ner and into such parts of se^Darate and 

 distinct ownership as shall be necessary 

 fcr that purpose." The dissolution of the 

 " trust " is to be effected within 120 days, 

 and failing so to do the court shall take 

 steps by receivership or othei-Avise to dis- 

 .solve the unlawful combination. 



The Corn Products Co., it will be re- 

 "membered, are the manufacturers of the 

 glucose product called " karo." TMs does 

 not mean that karo and the other products 

 of the allied companies will be taken off 

 the market, but that each of tlie concerns, 

 according to the decree, shall be operated 

 in harmony with the law. Doubtless the 

 case will be carried to the Supreme 

 Court of the United States. 



Our readers will remember that karo was 

 originally advertised as " better than honey 

 and for less money." We have never re- 

 garded it as a competitor of honey, be- 

 cause it is in an inferior class by itself. 

 Possibly there are some who v/ould buy 

 honey if they could not get karo. More 

 probably those who buy karo cannot af- 

 ford to buy honey or the more expensive 



syrups. To that extent karo may be sup- 

 23lying a demand all its own, and perhaps 

 enable some poor people to have a sweet 

 that they could not otherwise i^rocure, but 

 a dark honey of a higher price would 

 go further. 



Honey-market Conditions and Prices 



While the extracted-honey market is be- 

 coming more and more firm, with prices 

 above those of last year, the comb-honey 

 market is going the other way, with quota- 

 tions easier than those of last year. Pos- 

 sibly the firmness of the liquid-honey 

 market will tend to stiffen the market on 

 comb, but it is doubtful. Those who are hold- 

 ing extracted honey for better prices would 

 do well to I'emember that the prices on 

 comb honey and extracted ease up usually 

 during and after the holiday period. See 

 what Foster says in Rocky Mountain De- 

 partment this issue, also Honey Column. 



It is api^arent that the heavy campaign of 

 advertising honey by the publishers of 

 this journal thru our popular magazines 

 is creating an enormous demand for table 

 extracted. It is impossible to advertise any 

 one brand without advertising all brands 

 of honey. We are reliably informed that 

 the various bottlers, have sold in the ag- 

 gregate over one hundred cars of honey in 

 bottles and tumblers already this season. 

 Such a call for liquid honey would have a 

 tendency to stiffen the market. Before our 

 campaign of advertising honey in the pop- 

 ular magazines such a demand would have 

 been imi^ossible. Honey in glass is eheajDer 

 than honey in comb; and if beekepers had 

 heeded our call last spring, see Gleanings 

 May 1, and produced more extracted than 

 comb, the market would now be good on 

 both. 



The Hearing on Comb Honey Freight 

 Rates 



On page 617 of issue for August 1 we 

 called attention to the proposed discrimina- 

 tion against shipment of comb honey in less 

 than car-load lots applying to territory 

 west of Chicago. At the time we urged 

 producers to write at once, protesting to R. 

 C. Fyfe, Chairman of the Western Classifi- 

 cation Committee, Transportation Building, 

 Chicago. Apparently beekeejDers got busy, 

 with the result that-comb honey in less than 

 car lots may soon be sent at reasonable rates 

 Xjrovided it is sent in carriere. Before this 

 Avas allowed, a special committee of repi'e- 

 sentative m.en appeared befoi e the Commit- 

 tee on Railroads. 



