. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. I'uhlisht Weelily at JIS A/ie/i/^rtii Street. $1J)0 a Year—SamjiiG Copy^ P'rGe, 37th Year. CHICAGO, ILL., OCTOBER 21, 1897. No. Is It Worth While to Have a Tariff or Duty on Hooey ? BY CHA8. F. MUTH. Questions.—"I notice that the new tariff law doubles the old duty of 10 cents per gallon on extracted honey. Does enough Cuban honey come into our markets to make it worth while to us to have any duty at all? I suggest that C. F. Mulh could give some information on this. Perhaps Weyler, the Spanish butcher, has entirely stopt honey-production in
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. I'uhlisht Weelily at JIS A/ie/i/^rtii Street. $1J)0 a Year—SamjiiG Copy^ P'rGe, 37th Year. CHICAGO, ILL., OCTOBER 21, 1897. No. Is It Worth While to Have a Tariff or Duty on Hooey ? BY CHA8. F. MUTH. Questions.—"I notice that the new tariff law doubles the old duty of 10 cents per gallon on extracted honey. Does enough Cuban honey come into our markets to make it worth while to us to have any duty at all? I suggest that C. F. Mulh could give some information on this. Perhaps Weyler, the Spanish butcher, has entirely stopt honey-production in Cuba. —; think it of the greatest importance to bee- keepers to have a fair protective tariff on importations of honey, because I know from experience that our present low prices would still be lower, even with a tariff of 20 cents on a gallon, even if Butcher Weyler had not destroyed all chances for a honey crop for several years to come. I was never able to compete with Eastern prices until we tried our hands at importations from Cuba. We received at one shipment 87,000 pounds, and had bought it cheap—about 2 cents a pound below the price we paid to our neighbors for the same qualities. We had it shipt via New Orleans and Ohio and Mississippi steamer, advanced 20 cents a gallon duty, charges to New Orleans and freight to Cincinnati. We had bought for cash, and the shipper had received a more satisfactory price than he ever had before, and offered me his next crop at the same figura. That season we could, and did, compete with our Eastern competitors, and—last but not least—we offered to our neigh- bors the same prices we had paid for the Cuban honey, and received all we could handle. My Cuban shipment caused a decline of 2 cents a pound in the price of extracted honey, and if no duty had been on honey, the decline would have been 4 cents a pound, without any doubt about it. The tariff on honey had been lowered to 12 cents on a gallon du
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