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, man to stamp his name on the package. I would lose a great 

 many sales rather than buy from a man who would stamp his 

 packages. 



Pres. York — ^He might have his name on the box. 



Mr. Muth — I don't want anyone's honey with his name 

 over the sections. I will do that myself. We work hard to get 

 customers, and I am just as jealous of my business as I can 

 be, and if I develop a trade I don't%ant you to come in and 

 take my trade. I have spent a life-time for it. I don't want 

 a producer's name on every section. They can put it on the 

 end of the case if they want to, and if I see fit I can scratch 

 it off. Nine times out of ten it comes off, but when the name 

 is all over the sections I don't want it. A good many times 

 I feel like saying, "The honey is here subject to your order." 



Mr. Horstmann — I don't think it is right for bee-keepers 

 to have their names on the sections. I don't think it is 

 honest. If I sell a case of honey to a' dealer, that honey 

 belongs to that dealer, and I claim that my name has no 

 right on the sections. If I am an honest bee-keeper, and 

 want to be fair, I should leave my name off. I can stick 

 half a dozen, or a dozen cards in the box, and if he wants 

 to advertise me and my business he can do so; but I say. 

 Keep your names off the sections when you sell to the trade. 

 If I am selling honey to people in my own neighborhood, I 

 would put my name on the sections, and also when people 

 come to my house to buy honey. I should advertise my busi- 

 ness as much as I can, but I have no right to advertise my 

 business at the expense of somebody else. 



Mr. Kannenburg — It seems like that is trying to kill off 

 the middleman ! 



Mr. Meredith — I have sold to merchants who required 

 that my name be put on. 



Pres. York — They held you responsible for it then. 



Mr. Abbott — This means a little more, too. I think 

 sometimes the names ought to be cut off of the honey. 

 I hate to buy a thing with the company's name stamped 

 all over it. I have thought sometimes, as a dealer, that I 

 would quit handling those grades of extractors — A. I. Root 

 Company's ^ and others — because the trade belongs to me ; 

 I have to put in my hard licks for it, and I think there is 

 too much advantage taken of us fellows who handle supplies. 

 When I began selling supplies in St. Jo, you couldn't have 

 sold a wheelbarrow or the cheapest hive which was $2.75, 

 and now I can sell four or five carloads, and I have 'done 

 it all myself. I want an extractor, and here comes an ex- 

 tractor with A. I. Root all over it, and the minute the 

 -customer gets it he writes to A. I. Root to find out what I 

 got it for. 



Dr. Miller — This whole thing is simply a matter of 

 contract, and there is no trouble about it at all. If I make 

 a trade with a man, before the trade is completed we must 

 both agree to it. If I want to sell some honey to a man, 

 if he says he wants my name on it, and if he will pay me 

 enough for putting it on, I will do so. If he doesn't want it 



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