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NINTH ANNUAL, REPORT OF THE 



comb is good, has that sweetness of 

 aroma to it that pleases the people 

 who use it. They get their extracted 

 honey, yes, out of comb honey, but, 

 on the other hand, if they do that with 

 Western honey, they don't get it. They 

 say, "That honey — why, I guess that 

 is that sugar-honey the bee-men are 

 using now, that ain't got no taste to 

 it.!" 



Mr. Baxter — One reason there was 

 such a large sale of honey last year 

 was the dearth of fruit, and high price 

 of fruit. There were no apples here 

 last year, and Mr. Burnett knows ap- 

 ples sold here right on this market last 

 year at five dollars a bushel; and, an- 

 other thing, the use of honey is very 

 much a matter of custom. I had Mr. 

 Dadant the other day ship a consign- 

 ment of honey to southern Kansas. He 

 said he would not use that honey at 

 all. He is an Illinois man. He wanted 

 Spanish-needle honey, and we didn't 

 have it. He got heartsease. I got a 

 letter from him the other day and he 

 said that was all right; he was pleased 

 with it. Take a man that comes from 

 a buckwheat region, he won't use any- 

 thing but buckwheat honey. But when 

 you come to those fine distinctions, 

 the difference between a fine aroma of 

 extracted honey compared with comb 

 honey, nobody but a connoisseur would 

 know the difference. 



Mr. Burnett — ^In regard to that apple 

 question, I want this to support what 

 I have said. I deal in apple, and, of 

 course, as Mr. Baxter says, I do know 

 a little about it. The government sta- 

 tistics this year show the crop is about 

 one per cent less of apples than it was 

 last year. So there is the difference 

 in the statistics he has got and those 

 that are given where I found them. 

 The apples last year were good. We 

 have not had as good apples as we had 

 last year in the Western States for 

 years. The crop in those same sections 

 this year are not so good, and the ap- 

 ples are not so good, and they start in 

 at a high price this year — poor apples 

 at a high price. People have quit using 

 them already, and apples are about a 

 dollar a barrel less than they were 

 sixty days ago. We are beginning 

 to realize we are stuck on poor stuff 

 again. The crop of 1908 apples started 

 in at low prices. People found they 

 were good, and they continued to use 

 them, and they did go up to those high 



prices. Simply because the stuff was- 

 good, and good stuff I have found, gen- 

 tlemen, will tell. Live as long as Dr. 

 Miller has, and grow as good as he has 

 during these years, and you will find 

 that to be a fact. 



Mr. Baxter — Right there I would say, 

 how about the Apple Shippers' Asso- 

 ciation? What do they say about sta- 

 tistics'? They say there is twenty per 

 cent larger crop, according to them, 

 than there was last year. Why, Car- 

 lisle alone shipped fifteen thousand; 

 how about Oregon, and how about Ida- 

 ho? Wliy, the quality of apples this 

 year is far superior to what they were- 

 last year. And how about Vermont? 

 How about York State? When you 

 come to quality, the quality is better 

 this year. 



Mr. Burnett — I don't wish to enter 

 into a discussion of the merits of ap- 

 ples this year. The apples are on the 

 market and can be tested for them- 

 selves. The Colorado crop of 1908 was 

 cut off by a frost. This year, they 

 have a very abundant crop and they 

 are probably the best apples that are 

 coming to this market this year, or 

 any other market. The crop from the 

 West — the apples are smaller and not 

 as good as they were last year. 



President York — We are getting off 

 on the apple question instead of honey. 



r>r. Bohrer — I was going to ask what 

 infiuence this has on the extracted, or 

 the other haney? That, I understand, 

 was the question. I don't see how the 

 use of the extractor could exert any 

 influence on the taste of the honey, I 

 could never detect any difference. 

 There is some in the wax even after 

 it is melted, and there is a taste that 

 goes with it, but I say when it wa» 

 manufactured and molded into the 

 comb, it stays with it, and that if it 

 forms with the honey, it will go with it 

 to the extractor, and has nothing ta 

 do with that matter at all, except to 

 take the wax away from it, or to put 

 it away from the wax. As for the 

 looks of it, I think there is more in the 

 looks of comb honey that makes peo- 

 ple want to eat it than anything else» 

 It is a little like Limburger cheese; it 

 looks better than it tastes. I can prove 

 that by Mr. Huffman 



Mr. Burnett — I object to turning 

 this into an experience meeting.. 

 (Laughter.) i 



