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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



excludes the building of drone comb. I 

 hold that at the present time this uni- 

 formity is not at all desirable. The use 

 of comb foundation may not in a small 

 degree be to blame for the old honey can- 

 ard bobbing up again and again. If we 

 would leave out the artificial rib our comb 

 honey will show an irregular, unsystem- 

 atic mixture of worker and drone comb. 

 This irregularity ought to convince every 

 intelligent person, no matter how little he 



may know about bees and honey, that 

 such honey cannot possibly be made by 

 machinery. 



Summing up, I might saj^ that this 

 practice of using full sheets of foundation 

 is most objectionable and cannot be con- 

 demned in too strong terms. The aim 

 should be to use as little foundation as 

 possible; not any if we could get along 

 without it. What saj' j'ou Mr. Editor ? 

 Napi^ES, N. Y., Aug. 14, 1902. 



WHOLESALING EXTRACTED HONEY 



BY J. F. M'INTYRE. 



Capital and Organization will Enable Producers to 

 Hold their Crops for Good Prices. 



Read at the Denver Convention. 



TO HE statement that "to him that hath 

 J^ shall be given," etc., still holds good, 

 only it should be made plainer. To him 

 that hath i/ioney, shall be given a high 

 price for his produce; and from him that 

 hath not money, his produce shall be 

 taken at a very low price, is the saying, 

 up-to-date. 



I believe that this law is just as inexor- 

 able as fate, when the words "at whole- 

 sale" govern what is said. A poor bee- 

 keeper could peddle his honey, selling 

 directly to consumers, who do not know 

 his weakness, at a good price, but the 

 large producer cannot do this, his honey 

 must pass through several hands before 

 reaching the consumer, and the price is 

 governed by the market. 



"aIvL things come to him who waits." 



It is said "all things come to him who 

 can wait." Ah ! There is the rub. How 

 can a man wait who has hungry mouths 

 to fill, and interest gnawing at his vitals ? 



I have before me San Francisco's Prices 

 Current, of July 4, 1902. Under honey, 

 it says, "buyers and sellers are too far 

 apart in their ideas of value for much 

 trading." Do you know what that means ? 



It means that those having honey to sell 

 now in California can waiL If there was 

 one man who could Jtol wait, the buyers 

 would get his honey at the present low 

 price. 



I don't know a single neighbor bee- 

 keeper that has his last year's honey crop 

 now on hand; the}' have all sold at a low 

 price to speculators. Only a small por- 

 tion of their honey has reached the con- 

 sumer; the balance is in the hands of 

 strong men who bought it at a low price 

 and are holding for a high price. 



DIFFICULTIES IN organizing PRODUC- 

 ERS WHO ARE POOR. 



At our conventions the question is often 

 asked, "what are we going to do with the 

 small producer who is too weak to hold 

 his honey, and breaks the market ? I al- 

 ways look at the questioner to see if he 

 wants to kill the the small producer, let 

 the speculator eat him up, or organize 

 him. The question has never been ans- 

 wered to the satisfaction of every one 

 present, but nearly all seem to feel as it 

 the man had done wrong by selling so 

 cheap. 



The big hearted man, with the love of 

 humanity thrilling his breast, gets up and 



