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TENTH ANNUAL. REPORT OF THE 



Producer's Name on Honey. 



"Should the producer's name be put 

 on packages?' 



Pres. York — How many think it 

 should? ('Eight.) How many think it 

 should not? (One.) 



Mr. Smith — It would depend upon the 

 kind of honey. 



Mr. Arnd — And who was selling it. 



Mr. Wilcox — I might state my reason 

 for preferring to put my name on the 

 package — that the railroad company 

 will know from whom it is shipped. I 

 have had several shipments laid up in 

 transit and they were lost and could 

 not be traced', except the name was on 

 the package, when they come right" 

 back and get a new bill. 



I had some honey shipped to South 

 Dakota, and it went to North Dakota, 

 to another man by the same name, but 

 my name and address being on the 

 package prevented the loss of this 

 honey. The man that it was sent to, 

 or rather that got the honey, wrote to 

 me and asked me w^hy I was shipping 

 him honey. 



Mr. Arnd — The name could be put on 

 in such cases as that; we could put 

 on a tag, and the tag could be taken 

 off. I think for a man to send any 

 honey to another who re-sells, that he 

 ought not to have his name on the 

 package, or, at least, only in such a 

 way that it could be taken off easily. 



Pres. York — It is right to put the 

 shipper's name on each large crate or 

 package, but on each individual case, 

 is what Mr. Burnett means. 



Mrs. Holbrook — I was brought up in 

 a peach-belt, and I know that the 

 Michigan peach has a reputation, and I 

 know that there were some men who 

 could not sell their fruit, and there 

 were other men who always kept their 

 name on the boxes, and their name sold 

 their fruit. 



Tampering with Shipped Honey. 



Mr. Ahlers — I want to say that it 

 makes a difference whether or not you 

 put your name on the packages. I 

 have had my shipping boxes, with my 

 name and address on the outside for 

 the past few years. Apparently the 

 railroad employees have learned to 

 taste my honey; I have lost at least a 

 half dozen pails from a dozen this fall. 

 Some railroads are worse than others. 

 Some one said to me that they had 



probably found out the high quality of 

 honey I sold. 



Mr. Burnett — I think what I said 

 previously covers that question quite 

 largely, too. It is a good thing not to 

 put the name on, because of the pre- 

 judice of the people against buying- 

 honey from localities where they sup- 

 posed they got honey from before that 

 was not good. 



Now it is a very natural thing for 

 people in 'Chicago to ask the dealer 

 where this honey was produced. He 

 may have been told by the seller that 

 it was produced in Wisconsin or Cali- 

 fornia, and if the honey suits the buyer, 

 he wants that honey again. He gets 

 something that he is told is the same 

 kind. It tastes differently, and for that 

 reason it may be from the same party 

 and the same locality, yet the honey 

 tastes differently. 



I know that last year, from Wisconsin, 

 we had a ^ipment of honey, and the 

 purchaser was in here this week (the 

 man that purchased this honey last 

 year) ; he said, "That was a fine lot of 

 honey I got last year, but it was very 

 different from this;" the man's name 

 was on the package and that is why, 

 in my judgment, it is a disadvantage 

 for people to put their names on pack- 

 ages of honey. 



Thire is oftentimes a prejudice exist- 

 ing because parties have been falsely 

 informed. Take certain alfalfas, they 

 run year after year very much 

 alike; from the same place 

 they are very much the same,, 

 but the alfalfa honey of Arizona 

 is entirely different from the alfalfa 

 honey of Kansas, or the alfalfa honey 

 of Colorado; just why these things are 

 so is another matter, but from my ex- 

 perience you will see that it is a dis- 

 advantage for a man to have his name 

 on the package, beyond the necessary 

 directions to get it to its destination, 

 if it is to be sold through a dealer. 



Mr. Wheeler — I had quite a bit of 

 trouble last year in honey being 

 tampered with on the road. It s'eems 

 to get worse every year. Nearly every 

 shipment I have received this year ha<J 

 been opened and comb honey taken out. 

 I had maybe a half dozen sections 

 taken out of the box. Of course they 

 knew who it came from. You never 

 seem to get any satisfaction out of the 

 railroad at all; it is just a little. matter,, 

 and it takes years, sometime=, to get 



