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TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



I could get it in; and when a com- 

 modity is not a necessity — and hioney 

 will never be other than a luxury ex- 

 cept to the few — people sometimes 

 will use honey one 2 3, 4 and 5 years, 

 and then cut it out for as many more; 

 and that I know to be the fact that 

 people use it for a time and g-et so 

 they will have some in the house, and 

 it stays there, gets out of the con- 

 dition they want it, dust on it or 

 candied, or something other than is 

 inviting. People who eat honey, as a 

 rule, are not people who must econo- 

 mize to the penny. They buy honey 

 because they think it is something 

 that will make a relish, something 

 that will vary the table and be an in- 

 ducement to eat a little more than 

 they otherwise would. The man or 

 the family who buys honey to avoid 

 buying butter, "buys it in the cheapest 

 kind of package that it can be got in. 

 These things are all met by Mr. 

 "Wheeler, Mr. Moore and others who 

 peddle honey to the consumers or to 

 the retail merchant, and then when 

 they come into the market to get their 

 supplies, they 'buy it in the package 

 that is most convenient for them. The 

 60-pound package has come to be 

 almost a universal package. It is 

 something that an ordinary person 

 can lift without a great deal of diffi- 

 culty, and it is a;bout as cheap a pack- 

 age' as honey can bft put up in. The 

 fact is that the producer of honey has 

 asked that the price of these tin 60- 

 pound cans, so-called, be furnished 

 him at a low price. T!he manufac- 

 turers have tried to do that. The re- 

 sult is that they have given them a 

 much lighter tin, poorer soldering and 

 poorer joints, and when they are 

 filled with honey and jolted over a 

 hundred or more miles of railway, or 

 in wagons, they sometimes hurst, and 

 the honey is lost, probably the entire 

 can, if it is in a liquid state. But it 

 smears up everything it comes in con- 

 tact with and does more damage than 

 its own loss, and that is something 

 that may not have been mentioned 

 here, that the producer ought to see 

 that the package he fills is a stout 

 package, as stout as it can be of its 

 kind; that is, that it is perfectly 

 mechglnized, that the solder is good, 

 and that the joints are properly made. 



Mt. Wilcox — In separate tin cans, 

 don't you find that the wood itself is 



to liglit or too frail to carry the weight 

 that is put in them? 



Mr. Burnett — ^Not generally, but oc- : 

 casionally we do. There have been 

 some of those cases coming this last 

 year or two — it has been more gen- 

 eral lately. We hardly ever have 

 California cans burst. The cases are 

 good, and they use better cans. 



Mr. Pritchard — Right here I want to 

 give you a good point. It is more in 

 the nailing than in the package. We 

 have found packages nailed with 

 small nails that were a lot of w-aste. 

 But you take an 8-penny or a 6-penny 

 nail for packages, and they will hardly 

 ever break. 



Wr. Whitney — Mr. Burnett speaks 

 of honey as a luxury. That undoubt- 

 edly is considered to be true by the 

 majority of people. Doesn't that 

 argue that we ought to advertise 

 honey in some way and get it before 

 the masses of the people that it is a 

 necessity, as well as butter and milk. 

 Are there not some countries where the 

 common people use honey freely, more 

 so than they do butter? 



Mrs. Holbrook — In Germany. 



Mr. Whitney — If we believe that 

 honey is a good thing for bread for 

 children, instead of butter, I think 

 that a pound of honey at 15 cents 

 would ^go further than a pound of 

 butter at 30, and would be a great 

 deal better for children and ordinary 

 families than butter, and after a while 

 would be considered a necessity. I 

 cannot understand why the people 

 cannot be educated up to the feeling 

 that honey is just as much a necessity 

 as any other food. 



Mr. Schlader — What about the idea 

 of substituting honey for butter? That 

 doesn't occur at home at all. My boys 

 want butter if they have honey. They 

 want something to keep it from sog- 

 ging' into the bread. I must confess I 

 like butter with the honey myself; it 

 adds flavor to it. 



Mr. WTiitney — That is very true 

 among those who produce ihoney and 

 butter too. But there are a lot of 

 people who would use it in place of 

 butter if it were properly placed be- 

 fore them, and especially if it was 

 soft granulated, it would spread just 

 like butter or ice cream. 



Mr. Moore — ^I would like to hear from 

 you. Tou have had very large ex- 

 perience in this honey question in all 



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