THE BEEKEEPERS' REVIEW 409 



pected to bring along another beekeeper to join with us in making 

 the fiftieth annual meeting of the Michigan Beekeepers' Associa- 

 tion bigger'n ever. 



F. ERIC MILLEN, 



Sec-Treasurer. 

 East Lansing. 



Observations on the Comb Honey Market 



WESLEY FOSTER, Boulder, Colorado 



When Fancy comb-honey costs the retailer $3.75 a case 

 of twenty-four sections, he must retail it at 20 cents each. This 

 gives the retailer close to thirty per cent profit which most grocers 

 in the west at least feel they must have. At 20 cents comb-honey 

 does not move very fast even though every comb is perfect and 

 heavy weight. During August and September new comb-honey 

 does move with quite satisfactory results at $3.75 to $4.00 a case. 

 There is no doubt that new comb-honey has a lusciousness that 

 wears off in two months' time. 



Grocers in the west have been slow to split up prices in pennies, 

 but they are coming to it. Comb-honey as yet is not offered at 17, 

 18 or 19 cents but you do see it offered at two for 35 cents or two 

 for 25 cents. When comb-honey wholesales at $3.50 it retails at 

 two for 35 cents. When wholesaled at $3.00 it goes to the consumer 

 at 15 cents. Cull comb-honey retails at 10 cents to two for 25 cents 

 and such honey wholesales at $2.00 to $2.50 a case according to 

 weight principally. 



Retail grocers in the west now offer such articles as butter 

 and eggs at penny denominations and when they adopt the practice 

 with comb-honey it will be quite a stimulus to the sales. 



The low price at which cull comb-honey has been sold has ex- 

 tended the use of comb-honey very much. Last year thousands 

 of sections of light weight comb-honey were retailed at 10 cents 

 and that low price has been a profitable advertising campaign for 

 the honey trade. 



Comb-honey is a staple in the v/est and many grocers buy 

 comb-honey in fifty case lots and extracted honey by the ton. This 

 is as it should be in face of the low prices on extracted honey and 

 the rapidly increasing comb-honey production of the Rocky Moun- 

 tain Region. 



Oct. 15, 1915. 



