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Mr. Wheeler— It would be objection- 

 able on the Chicag-o market. You have 

 to meet keen competition here. 



Mr. Wilcox — ^Is there any other ob- 

 jection on account of so many pieces 

 to handle? 



Mr. Wheeler — Just about as much 

 work. 



Pres. York — It would be double the 

 folding, would it not? 



Mr. Wheeler — Yes; and it costs more 

 to get the sections made. It is sur- 

 prising, where you fill out to the cor- 

 ners like that, how much more foun- 

 dation it takes. You have to let it 

 stick up above ; if you let it come down 

 even it would sag, and as soon as the 

 bees get a chance to stick their heads 

 up over the top of the foundation they 

 begin gnawing it. 



Pres. York — I don't suppose the comb 

 foundation makers would object to your 

 using so much foundation! 



Mr. Wheeler — You will have to ask 

 them about that. We have one here, 

 and he says, "Hurrah! for the split 

 section!" 



Mr. Taylor — That paper says that he . 

 got 500 sections with no pop-holes; if 

 that is all he got, what were the rest? 



Pres. York — He refers to the exhibit 

 he had at the State Fair, he probably 

 had more than 50'0 from his whole crop. 



Mr. Wilcox — About 1% sections — 

 how many think it advisable to have 

 them as narrow as that? I would like 

 to ask this question. Is it, or is it 

 not, advisable to have them as narrow 

 as that? 



Pres. York — How many think it is? 

 (One.) 



Mr. Taylor — What is the difference 

 in the width of a plain section and one 

 that is not plain? Now that is evident- 

 ly the thickness of the upper and lower 

 part of an ordinary section; the other 

 part would be % wider, which would 

 make 1% section. 



Mr. Hatch — You have % to % on 

 each side. 



Mr. Taylor — It would be •% inch 

 larger for a whole section than that, 

 which would made % and 2-8 of %, 

 1 % section. 



Mr. Hatch — That is 7-to-the-foot. 



Mr. Taylor — That is a little more 

 than 7-to-the-foot; a scant 1% is 7- 

 to-the-foot; it takes just scant 1% to 

 make 7-to-the-foot. 



Mr. Hatch — In theory it does, but in 

 practice you can't have it. 



Mr. Taylor — I do. You will find 

 mine are 1 inch and just scant %. 



Mr. Hatch— rl find in rainy and damp 

 weather the sections swell. 



Mr. Smith — I am not an expert 

 enough to know all of the intricacies 

 about the different sections but I vis- 

 ited tahe State Fair at Springfield and 

 examined the honey exhibit by Mr. 

 Coppin, and it was marvelous to seethe 

 work that he had produced. He had 

 hundreds of sections without a single 

 defect, such as you see here — almost as 

 smooth as a board that had been 

 planed. It showed that he took an im- 

 mense amount of pains with his work. 

 I don't believe it would be at all ex- 

 aggerating to say that if a dealer in 

 Chicago could be sure that he could get 

 5,000 such sections of honey as Mr. 

 Coppin produced he could afford to pay 

 30 cents a piece for them. 



Mr. Taylor — But would he? 



Mr. Smith — He would' — ^yes. 



Mr. Taylor — I never found them. 



Mr. Smith — To justify such a price 

 as that you must be able to deliver the 

 goods when they are called for. There 

 are homes in this city where they 

 would pay 50 cents for a perfect sec- 

 tion of honey to put on the table. A 

 man will pay $500' a month for a place 

 to live in because it is just what he de- 

 sires anH that same man will certainly 

 pay a little extra for honey that he 

 wants to use on his table if he can find 

 it in perfect condition, and there are 

 many men just like this one. They will 

 go to the market and pay five and six 

 prices for apples because of their ap- 

 pearance; they pay more for nearly 

 everything, there is a large class of 

 people who will do that. 



I would not hesitate, myself, to con- 

 tract today for 5,000 sections of honey 

 such as Mr. Coppin showed at the Fair, 

 if I eould get them, at 25 cents a sec- 

 tion; but I would want to be assured 

 that I will have those sections, and that 

 they will be just as good'. That section 

 (one on table) would not come up to 

 the average that he showed at the Fair 

 grounds. 



Now, whether it is because of its be- 

 ing a split section or not, I don't know, 

 but I do know that the quality is there, 

 and it has the appearance that will 

 bring the price. 



Mr. Taylor — I think I know why it 

 is well filled. It is not the skill of the 

 man, nor is it the skill of the bees, but 





