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ILLINOIS STATE BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION 



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me it is the finest thing they ever ate. 

 Mr. Kluck — ^What will they say when 

 winter time comes, and it candies? 



Mr. Diebold — ^I heat up my honey to 

 3 60 degrees Fahrenheit, and after it 

 gets somewhat cool, about 80, I pour 

 It on the comb honey and seal it up 

 and label it "Comb Chunk Honey." I 

 think in a cool room it would candy 

 again. 



,Mr. Moore — Tv.^o years ago (1908) I 

 purchased and sold lots of chunk 

 honey. There are lots of sections that 

 are imperfect, and I suppose I had 

 probably 600 or 800 pounds of that 

 kind of honey. I had no diflBculty 

 whatever in disposing of this chunk 

 honey at Galesburg; I sold lots of it 

 in 25 and 50 pound lots; I put it up in 

 cans and run extracted honey on it. 



Mr. Kluck — At how high a price? 



Mr. Moore — 12% cents a pound, 50 

 pound lots. I put it up in 10-pound 

 pails, also in larger sizes, some 25 and 

 some 50. The same persons I sold to 

 in 1908 asked me last season and this 

 for some of the same kind of honey, so 

 that I know it gives good satisfaction; 

 and I could sell, if I had that honey, 

 thousands of pounds right there. You 

 take section honey and often it will 

 sell, in a big crop year, readily in 

 larger cities at 18 to 20 cents a pound 

 or section, and generally they sell 

 them by the section; that makes it 

 rather expensive when you take off 

 the weight of the wood, where, if 

 people can buy bulk comb honey at 

 12% cents a pound in 25 or 50 pound 

 cans, families will use it up, and when 

 that is used, they will call for more. 

 I think that the working class of 

 people will buy it in that way in large 

 quantities. Of course, there will al- 

 ways be a demand for fancy comb 

 honey, because some people will not 

 have anything else, and it is a pleas- 

 ure to produce that kind of honey for 

 that market. I think it is a paying 

 proposition for bee-keepers to produce 

 I'Ulk comb honey. 



Pres. Bo wen— While I do not make 

 a specialty .of bulk honey, where I have 

 defective sections, or by accident, or 

 otherwise, I have any trouble in dis- 

 posing of them, I have done something 

 in this line of bulk honey, but I never 

 get less than 15 cents a pound for i^t 

 I am not surprised that Mr. Moore 

 always sells his— at 12% cents retail; 



there is no reason why you could not 

 get 15 cents for good bulk honey. 



Mr. Moore — Two years ago we had a 

 big honey crop; section honey retailed 

 at 15 cents. You could buy fancy sec- 

 tion honey for 15 cents. 



Pres. Bowen — ^The reason was that 

 men who had honey did not ask more 

 for it; a few men have 6 or 8 or 10 

 hives; some of them get 10 cents for 

 their honey, and are satisfied, but 

 those men are soon out of the way. 

 Some people say to me, "Why, we got 

 ours for 12% cents." I reply to that, 

 "You had better get some more there." 

 And they tell me, "They have no 

 more"; then they pay me what I ask 

 for it, if they find they cannot get it 

 for less. 



Mr. Diebold — Two years ago I pro- 

 duced a good honey crop; I bought a 

 whole lot of cans and canned a lot of 

 this chunk comb honey; I labeled It 

 nicely, but when I took it to the stores, 

 they would say, "We can't see it. If 

 we could see it our customers would 

 like it very much better, and we could 

 sell it much more readily." So I am 

 putting it up in Mason jars, and it 

 looks pretty; I can sell it for a half 

 dollar, 3 pounds; two pounds of comb 

 honey in it, and one of extracted; to 

 merchants I sell it for 45 cents, and 

 take it out in trade. 



Pres. Bowen — The main thing is to 

 ask a good price for it. 



Mr. Diebold — I have a brother bee- 

 keeper who has a couple of daughters 

 and sons to help, and he has a lot of 

 bees and got a lot of honey. I got 15 

 cents a section for my honey, and this 

 man offered his for 12% cents a sec- 

 tion. Farmers come in with four or 

 five gallons of honey and get 10 or 11 

 cents for it, and consequently they get 

 the market, and I had to hold mine. 1 

 hunted around and found a marlcet in 

 Springfield for it at my price. It often 

 happens that the man who hasn't a 

 whole lot of honey offers it from 10 to 

 12% cents a pound, and in fact at any 

 old price he can get. We should edu- 

 cate them to ask more; I have to wait 

 until that man gets all out of honey 

 before I can find a market for mine. 



Mr. York — ^It seems to me it would 

 be a good thing for Mr. Diebold to buy 

 out that other honey at 12 cents and 

 hold it and then sell it for 15 or 16 

 cents. 



