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according to Mr. Colburn's own statement there is no dis- 

 crepancy. He said the market report gave 12 to 14 cents. 

 Twelve meant the lower grade, 14 meant the highest grade. 

 Understand that those quotations mean some considerable 

 sale. You go along and ask a man what is the price and he 

 says 15 cents. He thinks, to look at you at first, you are a 

 suburbanite, come to carry honey home under your arm. If 

 you say, "Here, I want five or ten cases," he gives it at 14 

 cents, according to the quotation that you say was quoted. 

 There are dififerent circumstances. Quantity and quality of 

 purchase make a difference as to quotations, as you state it, 

 and are fair. 



Mr. Burnett — As to difference, I would like to have him 

 change the word invariable to variable. It seems to me it is 

 hardly fair that it should be invariably higher than the quota- 

 tions. As a matter of fact we all know that is not the fact. 

 That buying honey, as he buys it — perhaps he met a man who 

 buys from the receivers. The majority of the houses on 

 South Water Street that sell honey in a small way or keep a 

 few cases, buy it from some of the receivers, and they need 

 to get a cent a pound as a margin over and above what they 

 pay. The purpose, as I have understood for many years, of 

 market reports, is to give as nearly as may be the actual value 

 of honey sold as received. A lot of honey sold consisting of 

 25 or 100 or 1,000 cases is the price that the purchaser must 

 be guided by. Allow him to send the honey here and get a 

 cent a pound less than the quotations are for that grade of 

 honey, he feels that he has not had the market value for it. 

 So that it is not fair to any one to say that it is invariably so, 

 but that it does vary is a fact. 



Mr. Fluegge — I find the market quotations in Chicago 

 given out as nearly correct as they possibly can be. I visited 

 a number of grocersTnen and they informed me that the prices 

 they paid for first-class honey were 14 cents a pound, and that 

 is comb honey. That is what the quotations are now. I have 

 been watching it for several years and there is very little 

 difference between what the grocerymen say and what the 

 quotations are, so I think they are as nearly correct as we can 

 get tiiem from that standpoint. 



HORIZONTAL WIRING OF COMB-FOUNDATION. 



"Can brood-frames filled with full sheets of foundation 

 be wired horizontally in a manner that will prevent buckling?" 



Mr. Dadant — If we wire foundation at all, I believe as a 

 general thing those who do wire put their first wire too low. 

 The weight is at the top — ^the pull is on the top story; the 

 cells are nearest to the top of the frame and the first wire 

 should be put very close to the top, within an inch. When 

 you come to the bottom of the frame, those who have handled 

 fotmdation for years, know that those cells are hardly ever 

 stretched, and there is no need of wiring below the middle of 

 the frame. If you put one wire at the middle and the other 



