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rate compared with the amount sold. This price would be 80c each 

 for five pound pails and $1.25 for ten pound pails. Where expenses 

 are high, as away from home, or perhaps in the city where delivery 

 comes high, this extra expense must be taken care of. 



^'Boosters Cluh'^-Honey Candy 



EDWARD HASSINGER JR., Greenville, Wisconsin. 



It is generally conceded that only ten per cent of the people eat 

 honey. I believe it safe to say that at least fifty per cent of the 

 people eat candy. Good candy sells for from 30 cents to 50 cents 

 per pound. The average candy consumer will pay that price, and 

 not think anything of the price. There is no doubt, but that this 

 same candy consumer would not pay fifteen cents per pound, for 

 the finest kind of honey, without kicking about the price. The 

 reasons are many, and much has been said and printed with ref- 

 erence to, "educating the public to the real food value of honey." 

 It is not necessary to educate the public to eat candy, therefore 

 there must be other reasons. I have some neighbors that don't 

 want the "STICKY STUFF" (honey) around, because everything 

 gets sticky, on the place especially where there are little children. 

 I presume such cases are exceptional. But there must be some 

 way to get to these people to eat honey, as well as the thousands 

 that perhaps have never tasted good honey. 



I want to go on record for stating, that when honey can be 

 eaten without a spoon or knife, it will sell itself, and the demand 

 will take care of the supply, and the supply will come to take care 

 of the demand, and make beekeeping as much a business propo- 

 sition as any other rural pursuit, and last but not least there will 

 be a market for honey all the year round, with a price attached 

 to it. As it is now the producer can get little or no more for his 

 honey when he has a small crop, as when he has a large crop, and 

 a large crop often results in no market; and this is true in a re- 

 tail way as well as in a wholesale way. 



The honey candy should be put up in some form small enough 

 to put into your mouth, same as an ordinary piece of candy, so 



