Tfe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
What the small packers say 
about meat competition 
hare fallen heir to a fortune. When the 
gifts were distributed J-iftle Rose came 
to us and handed each a small package. 
I had noticed her through the afternoon 
working hard to wrap and .seal these little 
tokens. Mine proved to be a small box 
and inside it, wrapped in several thick¬ 
nesses of paper, was a bright penny. 
Mother’s box had two pennies, and in 
order to show that this did not mean any 
partiality in the distribution of her for¬ 
tune, Little Rose also gave me a framed 
picture of herself. 
Well, where does the hip gift come in? 
Right in those three pennies. The 
child gave all she had. Try to remem¬ 
ber what three cents would have meant 
at the candy store when you were five! 
Little Rose gave everything she had— 
confident that she would be cared for. 
She gave all she had—three cents-—as the 
great measure of her love. You may now 
be 50, and perhaps in place of the three 
cents you may have three or 10 or 50 or 
500 thousand dollars. But you would 
hesitate to give even 10 per cent of it 
(saying nothing of all) as a token of 
love or of confidence in the power of tin- 
great Giver of all good to provide for 
you. Come now—am I right? Did 
Rockefeller or any other king of finance 
give more than this little girl? What 
would you give for the faith which this 
little^ Rosebud still holds? 
"For all ihese have of their abundance 
east in unto the offerings of God: hut she 
of her penury hath cast in all the living 
that she had.” IT. W. C. 
Gas Heater for Greenhouse 
Can a small greenhouse used for prop¬ 
agating tomato and pepper plants, etc., 
he heated by a gas stove with the coil of 
nipe inside to heat water? The water 
is supplied from a tank. This whole de¬ 
vice is situated inside the house. Or is 
it. possible to use a gas heater to gener¬ 
ate the heat? Does the gas give off a 
smell or gaseous smoke that is injurious 
to the plants? C. F. R. 
Bayonne, N. .T. 
There should be no trouble in heating 
a small greenhouse with a gas-burning 
water heater. I do not think it would 
be feasible to use a gas stove as sug¬ 
gested by C. F. R. for the purpose, but 
a regular water heater using gas for fuel, 
with several coils of copper pipes, usually 
operated in dwelling houses for heating 
water, should work out all right. I would 
not be able to state definitely just what 
size heater would be required to heat a 
given area of glass, this being a question 
for your plumber, or gas company officers 
or engineers to determine. 
In Lancaster, Pa., the gas company 
will install a water heater, connecting 
the same to the waterback piping of the 
range boiler, for $20. This heater will 
heat 50 gallons of water to the boiling 
point in one hour at a cost for gas con¬ 
sumption of 4c. If the installation cost 
would not be prohibitive, or the operation 
expense too great, several of these heaters 
could be used, and connected in such 
manner that in mild weather only one 
could be operated and two or more in 
severe weather, depending upon the size 
of the house. There are larger heaters 
on the market, several containing enough 
coils of pipe and of sufficient gas con¬ 
sumption so that soon as the faucet is 
opened water near the boiling point is 
delivered. Any of these gas heaters 
would have to be piped to the outside 
in the same manner as a stove, though 
tin- pipe would not need be as large. 
A fire of any nature in a greenhouse with¬ 
out the products of the combustion being 
carried outside the house would be fatal 
to any plants growing therein. The gas 
heater could be connected to circulating 
pipes, in the same manner as a small coal- 
burning heater would be used to heat a 
greenhouse or dwelling. E. .J. w. 
During a recent hearing, a num¬ 
ber of the smaller packers were 
asked for their opinions of com¬ 
petition in the meat industry. 
The following quotations, we 
believe, are typical of the feeling 
throughout the entire meat 
packing industry: 
Michael Ryan, President of the 
Cincinnati Abattoir Company, 
said: “I have been a competitor 
of the large packers for the last 
40 years, and I have never found 
a disposition on their part to crush 
competition. . . . They have 
concealed nothing nor attempted 
any unfair practices.” 
T. Davis Hill, Vice-President 
Corkran, Hill & Company, In¬ 
corporated, Baltimore, asserted 
that: “The big packers cannot 
control the market for the reason 
that there are too many outside 
packers. . . . Some days the 
small packers make the market 
for the big packers. We have no 
fear of the big packers* competi¬ 
tion. . . . The large packers 
have never tried to undersell us 
or drive us out of business.” 
G. H. Nuckolls, President of the 
Nuckolls Packing Company, 
Pueblo, Colorado, said: “So far 
as profits go, my company has 
made a larger percentage on its 
turnover than any of the so-called 
Big Five.” 
J. C. Dold, President of the Jacob 
Dold Packing Company, Buffalo, 
New York, testified: “I recall no 
instances where we were ever 
hampered by any packer in the 
control of any stock or in the 
purchase of our supplies at com¬ 
petitive market prices.” 
John J. Felin, President John J. 
Felin Company, Packers, Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa.: “I have known all 
the packers for years and have 
never seen any unfair dealings on 
their part. I know of no methods 
that have been adopted by any 
of them that were unjust, unfair 
and monopolistic.” 
There is probably no business 
in America more keenly com¬ 
petitive than the packing in¬ 
dustry, and none that serves 
the public on a smaller margin 
of profit. 
Swift & Company’s profits dur¬ 
ing the first eight months of our 
present fiscal year have averaged 
two-fifths of a cent on each 
pound of meat and all other 
products sold. 
Swift & Company, U. S. A. 
Founded 1868 
A nation-wide organization owned by more than 30,000 shareholders 
Bees in Box Hives 
T have 15 swarms of bees in rough box 
hives. Would it be better to invest in 
patent hives, or build a beehouse to set 
tin- old hives in? Are beeliouses a suc¬ 
cess? Will they work in the house after 
filling the hive? J. K. 
Mill field, O. 
Keeping bees in box hives, without 
frames, is a crude sort of way that will 
answer the purpose of obtaining a little 
honey for home use, but has many objec¬ 
tion-; front the viewpoint of a good bee¬ 
keeper. The brood combs in such hives are 
not accessible for inspection, and bees in 
them frequently become diseased, to the 
detriment of all neighboring apiaries, and 
real, intelligent management of the col¬ 
ony is impossible. If you wish to make 
anything of your bees, you should transfer 
them to modern, movable frame hives, 
either factory or homemade, and learn 
the essentials of good management in 
such hives. 
A beehouse is simply a shelter for the 
bees in their hives, not a house in which 
bees work in the open. The management 
of the hives in such a house is practically 
the same as of those out of doors, and 
there are disadvantages as well as advan¬ 
tages in such shelters. It would not pay 
you to build a house for 15 colonies, as 
you can obtain fully as good results, or 
better, with open stands, though, if in an 
especially exposed situation, you might 
find an open-front shed sufficient protec¬ 
tion to the hives to make it worth con¬ 
structing. m. r. n. 
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