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pound I think extracted ought to be sold for lo cents. I have 

 produced both comb and extracted and I watched it very 

 closely. I produce more extracted than comb. I get 15 cents 

 for extracted honey and 20 cents a section for the comb 

 honey, and I am satisfied that the extracted h6ney at 15 

 dents a pound pays a good deal better than the comb honey 

 at 20 cents a section. There is no section to buy, no founda- 

 tion to buy, and after we have our frames in shape we can 

 use them over and over again, and there is less labor and it 

 is a great deal less expensive. The first cost is the principal 

 cost, and I believe about 10 cents a pound would make a 

 fair price for extracted, while comb sells for 15. 



Dr. Miller — That's one of the question^ that's perennial. 

 It began shortly after the extractor began, and it will be a 

 question for every beginner when you and I are dead. Mr. 

 Wilcox stated the full case when he said circumstances vary. 

 One man says it ought to be the same price. Every locality 

 is different. In many cases they ought to be just about the 

 same price. In other cases about twice as much. There is a 

 man sitting before me ji^st now whose father years ago made 

 fun of me because I would do anything at producing comb 

 honey at all. I could do much better by producing comb. 

 It wasn't difficult for me. What is true for this year may 

 not be true for me ten years from now, and you will never 

 get that question settled so that you will have one answer 

 that applies all over. 



Mr. Moore — It is so hard to cover the whole case rightly 

 so that somebody won't be under a misapprehension. After 

 selling honey 17 years it is my conviction that when you sell 

 to the consumer you should sell comb and liquid honey at the 

 same price. When selling to the wholesale trade it is a differ- 

 ent case. You must get as much as you can. To us who are 

 catering to the city trade it is an entirely different thing from 

 those who are catering to the country trade. I have been told 

 that I ought not to sell extracted as cheap as the comb. 

 It is worth more to eat. As long as the trade is better satis- 

 fied to' pay comb-honey price I say charge them the comb- 

 honey price every time you sell to the consumer. 



Mr. York — I was in the honey business long enough to 

 know that honey is worth all you can get for it. 



Mr. Niver — I wanted to know in a large apiary what was 

 the relative proportion of comb honey and extracted honey that 

 could be produced on the average, and how many colonies 

 could the apiarist or operator handle well during the same 

 year to make it the most profitable for his time to run for 

 extracted or comb, provided comb was selling at 15 

 cents. What would be the market price for extracted honey 

 to make it equally profitable? Of course, the sections, the 

 foundation, the work, all put in, and the breakage, amounts 

 to three cents per section on the average. 



Dr. Miller— It is a little bit high. 



Mr. Niver — I can take care of about three times as many 

 bees for extraced as for comb honey during the season. 



Dr. Miller — Do you mean taking in the expense? 



Mr, Niver — Yes, sir. 



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