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60 First Annual Report 



B.Taylor — I want to put mjjself in opposition to any attempt at "corner- 

 ing" honey. There is never any corner on any product until it has passed 

 out of the hands of the producers . I sell my own honey. Not near home, 

 however. I load a car and push out west. In Minnesota the quotations are 

 not above the prices paid . 



E. T. Abbott — Suppose we ask dealers how much they will pay for 

 honey? 



A. N. Draper — Honey is often quoted too !ow. The market reports 

 are made up of quotations upon different articles. I think the honey quota- 

 tions are taken from the price-current sheets. 



President Miller — They do not do this. 



G. K. Hubbard — Why not ask dealers to say for how much they have 

 actually sold honey? 



Thomas G. Newman — They will not do this. Theysay: "We quote 

 honey so and so," but they do not give reports of sales. 



President Miller — I do not say it to boast, but I suppose I once raised 

 the price of honey 2 cents a pound in Chicago. I went around to the papers 

 and showed them I had made actual ?ales at 2 cents above the quoted prices, 

 and the papers put up their quotations . 



M. H. Mandelbaum (with S. T. Fish & Co.) — I will fill out any blanks 

 that the bee-periodicals will furnish . 



A. B. Mason — I see no objections to dealers saying for how much their 

 honey is sold . 



E. T. Abbott — I do not care to tell at what figures I sell honey. I am 

 willing to tell what I pay, but it is nobody's business what I sell it for. 



President Miller — We are mixing things. I think Brother Abbott is 

 willing to tell what he pays for his honey. • 



E. T. Abbott— Certainly. 

 President Miller — If a man is selling on commission, it is also proper that 

 he should tell at what price he sells. If he buys and sells, it is, as Brother 

 Abbott says, nobody's business at what price he sells In connection with 

 this matter, there is the question of grading honey. How should the differ- 

 ent grades be distinquished? 



Thomas G. Newman — Many of the troubles we have been discussing 

 arise from the lack of a standard in grading honey. 



A.I. Root— We have no end to troubles and losses because the honey 

 sent us as first-grade honey is not what we call first-grade. 



On motion of A. B. Mason, a committee of seven was appointed to 

 draft a standard of grading for honey. The committee appointed was as fol- 

 lows: A. B. Mason, M. H. Mandelbaum, George E. Hilton, Byron Walker, 

 M. M. Baldridge, Mrs. L. Harrison and W. Z. Hutchinson. 



