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go about among them and buy thoir 

 honey at a shilling a pound. 



B. Taylor — I want to put myself in 

 opposition to any attempt at "corner- 

 ing " honey. There is never any 

 "corner "on any product until it has 

 passed out of the hands of the producers. 

 1 sell my own honey. Not near home, 

 however. I load a car and push out 

 West. In Minnesota the quotations are 

 not above the prices paid. 



E. T. Abbott — Suppose we ask dealers 

 to say how much they will pay for 

 honey ? 



A. N. Draper — Honey is often quoted 

 too low. The market reports are made 

 up of quotations upon different articles. 



1 think the honey quotations are taken 

 from the price-current sheets. 



President Miller — They do not do this. 



G. K, Hubbard— Why not ask dealers 

 to say for how much they have actually 

 sold honey ? 



Thomas G. Newman — They will not 

 do this. They say: "We quote honey 

 so and so," but they do not give reports 

 of sales. 



President Miller — I do not say it to 

 boast, but I suppose I once raised the 

 price of honey 2 cents a pound in Chi- 

 cago. 1 went around to the papers and 

 showed them I had made actual sales at 



2 cents above the quoted prices, and the 

 papers put up their quotations. 



M. H. Mandelbaum (with S. T. Fish 

 & Co.) — I will fill out any blanks that 

 the bee-periodicals will furnish. 



A. B. Mason — I see no objections to 

 dealers saying for how much their honey 

 is sold. 



E. T. Abbott — I do not care to tell at 

 what figures I seiJ honey. lam willing 

 to tell what I pay, but it is nobody's 

 business what I sell it for. 



President Miller — We are mixing 

 things. I think Brother Abbott is will- 

 ing to tell what he pays for his honey. 



E. T. Abbott— Certainly. 



President Miller — If a man is selling 

 on commission, it is also proper that he 

 should tell at what price he sells. If he 

 buys and sells, it is, as Brother Abbott 

 says, nobody's business at what price he 

 sells. In connection with this matter, 

 there is the question of grading honey. 

 How should the different grades be dis- 

 tinguished? 



Thomas G. Newman — Many of the 

 troubles we have been discussing arise 

 from the lack of a standard in grading 

 honey. 



A. I. Root — We have no end to 

 troubles and losses because the honey 

 sent us as first-grade honey is not what 

 we call first grade. 



On motion of A. B. Mason a committee 

 of seven was appointed to draft a stand- 

 ard of grading for honey. The com- 

 mittee appointed was as follows : A. B, 

 Mason, M. H. Mandelbaum, George E. 

 Hilton, Byron Walker, M. M. Baldridge, 

 Mrs. L. Harrison and W. Z. Hutchinson. 



Paying Dues. 



A recess was now taken, when the 

 following members paid their dues : 



Thomas G. Newman, Chicago, Ills. 

 C. C. Miller, Marengo, Ills. 

 J. S. Seeley, Oswego, Ills. 

 M. M. Baldridge, St. Charles, Ills. 

 E. T. Abbott, St. Joseph, Mo. 

 E. Whittlesy, Pecatonica, Ills. 

 J. M. Hambaugh, Spring, Ills. 

 Geo. E. Hilton, Fremont, Mich. 

 A. I. Root, Medina, Ohio. 

 I. Schirer, Petona, Ills. 



A. N. Draper, Upper Alton, Ills. 

 M. H. Mandelbaum, Chicago, Ills. 



B. Taylor, Forestville, Minn. 

 Frank Seeley, Yorkville, Ills. 



W. C. Lyman, Downer's Grove, Ills. 



Byron Walker, Capac, Mich. 



W. A. Vance, Glencoe, Ills. 



O. O. Poppleton, Hawk's Park, Fla. 



G. K. Hubbard, Ft. Wayne, Ind. 



J. C. Wheeler, Piano, Ills. 



W. Z. Hutchinson, Flint, Mich. 



Jno. Rehorst, New Hampton, Iowa. 



W. P. Fulmer, Wheaton, Ills. 



N. Staininger, Tipton, Iowa. 



A. B. Mason, Auburndale, Ohio. 



J. H. Larrabee, Agricultural College, 



Mich. 

 Frank Blecka, Elgin, Ills. 

 E. S. Hubbard, Oil City, Iowa. 

 A. Y. Baldwin, DeKalb, Ills. 



C. P. Dadant, Hamilton, Ills. 



N. L. Stow, South Evanston, Ills. 



G. W. Redmond, Paris, Ills. 



R. R. Murphy, Garden Plains, Ills. 



J. A. Green, Dayton, Ills. 



R. A. Burnett, Chicago, Ills. 



E. W. Farrar, Downer's Grove, Ills. 



J. Forncrook, Watertown, Wis. 



LADY MEMBERS. 



Mrs. L. Harrison, Peoria, Ills. 

 Mrs. G. K. Hubbard, Ft. Wayne, Ind. 

 Mrs. N. L. Stow, South Evanston, Ills. 

 Miss Emma Wilson, Marengo, Ills. 

 Miss Zetta Strong, Ottawa, Ills. 



Apiarian Experiments at Lansing. 



When the meeting was again called to 

 order. President Miller said that the 

 Secretary had informed him of the pres- 

 ence of Mr. J. H. Larrabee, who has 

 charge of the apiarian experiments at 

 the Agricultural College of Michigan, 



