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change's business to collect and forward 

 promptly to the central office all informa- 

 tion as to supply, or possible demand. 



The financial basis of the organization 

 should be such as to inspire confidence 

 and allow of a reasonable advance on all 

 consignments, so as to help those bee 

 keepers who are now forced to sell for 

 zvhat they can get, and thus bridge over 

 their pressing need, and not dctnoralize 

 the market. How this fund is to be crea- 

 ted is an open question; perhaps a capital 

 stock drawing a low rate of interest would 



do it. Or, may be, some caitalist would 

 loan the neces.sary fund on the honey as 

 collateral. 



Expert salesmen should be employed 

 to look after the wholesale houses, and 

 they, in their turn, would look after the 

 retailer. Of course, it is understood each 

 producer would sell all he could at home, 

 allowing the price fixed by the central 

 office to govern lijs prices; or at least nev- 

 er allowing his prices to go below theirs. 



RiCHL.\ND Center, Wis., Oct. 4, 1902. 





COMMERCIAL ORCANIZATION. 



BY F. E. BROWN. 



Some of the Advantages that Might be Enjoyed from 

 National Supervision of the Marketing. 



W. 



R. W. Z. Hutchinson, Flint, Mich., 

 ar Sir: — I arrived home after a 

 very pleasant trip over the mountains and 

 deserts of the distant lands, and finding 

 that I am much wauled in business I have 

 so far given little attention to other things. 

 But today I will give more time to duties 

 not so close to home. Reg'^rding the 

 matter of which yourself and others are 

 a committee to draft plans by which the 

 National Association will control and 

 market the product of its members, I 

 beg to say that I have mentioned it to 

 everyVjody that I have met, who is inter- 

 ested in bees, and everyone .says it is the 

 right road to travel. 



It is sure to succeed if the plans can be 

 so arranged as to be simple and easy to 

 understand, and enough inducements 

 held out so that every one will go 

 in; but if a large pa-t will say "I 

 will stay out and gel the same benefit, by 

 the fact that there will be enough to go in 

 to control prices," then the outside bu}'- 

 ers will offer inducements to break down 

 the organization and we will have trouble. 

 But I think I can see where we can so ar- 

 range our plans that it will be necessary 



for every producer of honey, who depends 

 upon the the general market, to dispose 

 of his product through the National As- 

 sociation. 



One great point of inducement, will be 

 the matter of the ^j^vm/'a///^^' that we will 

 be able to place up )n our honey. As it 

 now stamls, a large amount of the extract- 

 ed product is tampered with before it 

 reaches the consumer, thus spoiling the 

 flavor by adding foreign material, and in- 

 creasing the the output, and greatly les- 

 sening the consumption. If our honey is 

 all packed, after being graded, ^wiK sealed 

 with a zuax seal hearing our brand, put 

 up in packages that will suit the consum- 

 er, then all the honey that does not 

 have our brand with the wax seal will be 

 left for the man with the gluco.se, and, 

 naturally, will be sold at a smaller price, 

 that will compel all to come into the pool; 

 it will do away with all adulteration of 

 honey, because there will be no honey 

 that they can buy to thus adulterate. 



I am now awaiting the action of some 

 whom I have asked for plans regarding 

 their organizations, and when they are re- 

 ceived I will be ready to begin to put t ° 



