'■-.Vrfefrf-- pl'Ti!^- 



158 



TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



less thin honey. I would like to know 

 how Mr. Byer managej* ii. such caaes. 



Mr. Byer — If that loose honey was 

 mostly unripe I certainly would first 

 uncap it and extract it after. 



Mr. Smith — That is exactly what I 

 did, but I wanted to see what Mr. 

 Byer would say. 



Mr. Davidson (Kansas) — I have seen 

 a great deal of unsealed honey that 

 was ripe, perfectly ripe. After the 

 flow is over the bees will ripen that 

 honey, whether they seal it or not. 

 When the flow stops they quit sealing 

 their honey, and they ripen it; so you 

 can extract this honey after the .flow 

 is over. 



Mr. McEvoy — Wasn't that sealed all 

 the same, although it wasn't capped? 



Mr. Hilton — I wish to state one or 

 two facts in regard to that question 

 of the tin or sealed package. This fall 

 I inserted an advertisement in cer- 

 tain papers in Schenectady, "extracted 

 honey for sale; 12 cents per pound de- 

 livered." I only put it up in five 

 pound pails. The result M-as, I got 

 quite a few postals. I took my flve 

 pound pails and answered those 

 orders. The objection was raised, "I 

 can't use that much In a year." I 

 said, "You can take the five pound 

 pails and use what you like out of 

 them, and I will call next week and 

 take the remaining quantity back." 

 Wlien I called the next Saturday for 

 the remainder of the honey the la'dy 

 said, "I want another pail of that 

 honey. I was letting some friends of 

 mine try it, and one of them gave me 

 orders for two pails to be delivered 

 elsewhere." If you put a higher 

 priced package on the market, say 

 half a pound for 20 or 25 cents, that 

 honey is going to be too good for the 

 children and visitors to eat; they are 

 going to make that last a year or so. 

 In almost every instance I sold five 

 times the quantity of honey that I 

 would if I sold the small orders at 

 fifteen or twenty cents a pound. 



President York called for the paper 

 by Mr. L/ouis H. Scholl, of New Braun- 

 fels, Texas, on "Bulk-Comb Honey 

 and Its Future." The paper is as 

 follows : 



^'BTJLK COMB HONEY AND ITS 

 FUTURE. 



You may talk about your section- 

 honey, and you may talk about your 



extracted, — but Oh! your bulk comb 

 honey! 



Yes, that is the way we, who have 

 given the matter • the most careful 

 study, look at it. We have had ex- 

 perience with all three kinds of honey 

 production and sale to fill the de- 

 ■we began our bee-keeping career, 

 there was no other honey to produce 

 than section honej* and extracted. 

 Since the question of extracteid honey 

 was altogether out of the question 

 and the expense of an extra, laborious 

 and vexing method of producing 

 a first-class article of section 

 honey was some experience that will 

 never be forgotten. And had it not 

 been for the raging bee-fever within 

 us at that time, we might have gotten 

 tired of bee-keeping. It was quite, a 

 proposition to produce a large crop of 

 comb honey in this way, especially if 

 we had not learned the tricks of the 

 trade, that those w'ho continue to harp 

 on the production of section-honey 

 appear to possess. 



Extracted honey was produced by 

 the great majority of our bee-keepers - 

 and it was the general product of the 

 box-hive bee-keepers all over the 

 country, with whom competition had 

 to be met to some extent. Thus it 

 was that very low prices, and a slow 

 sale for it, prevailed. It was only 

 the mo:^e extensive producer who 

 could ship his honey to the northern 

 markets, who could evade these con- 

 ditions, and here again' the freight 

 rates cut the profl'ts down to a low 

 margin. Under these conditions, 

 Texas wOuld not have become famous 

 as a ^honey-producer. Had it not been 

 for the introduction of bulk comb 

 honey as the leading honey in the 

 great Lone Star State, she would per- 

 haps be lagging behind today. Sec- 

 tion-honey was too high in price of 

 production and sale to fill the de- 

 mands of the general public; extract- 

 ed honey was in abundance, but it 

 dragged on the market. 



With the advent of bulk comb 

 honey, Texas made strides forward 

 as no other state has done, in bee- 

 keeping, and has for several years, 

 and today stands at the head of the 

 list. Bulk comb honey has made bee- 

 keeping profitable; and bulk comb 

 honey has helped us to reap a golden 

 harvest, year after year. Bulk comb 

 honey has put section-honey out of 



-■■£ 



