. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Clftcrtl^ougl^ts J The " Old Reliable " seen through New and Unreliable Glasses. By E. E. Hasty, Sta. B Rural, Toledo, Ohio. LIGET-WEIGHT SECTIONS OP HONET. So a grocer of 10 years' experience thinks the swindle of light- weight sections is responsible for much of the falling off in consump- tion. Hit the mark that time. Not necessary to suppose that grocers generally lie about the weight, or that purchasers generally believe sections weigh a pound when they do not. But when a man buys a so-called pound section, and pays for 12 ounces the pr
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Clftcrtl^ougl^ts J The " Old Reliable " seen through New and Unreliable Glasses. By E. E. Hasty, Sta. B Rural, Toledo, Ohio. LIGET-WEIGHT SECTIONS OP HONET. So a grocer of 10 years' experience thinks the swindle of light- weight sections is responsible for much of the falling off in consump- tion. Hit the mark that time. Not necessary to suppose that grocers generally lie about the weight, or that purchasers generally believe sections weigh a pound when they do not. But when a man buys a so-called pound section, and pays for 12 ounces the price that should have sufficed for a pound, he will ruefully kick himself about it after- ward. Among other things he will tell himself then that it didn't weigh more than W ounces. And it will be quite a while before he buys any more. Page 329. SPRING AND FALL PRICES OP BEES. On the price of a colony of bees, fall and spring, 6 of the 29 ex- perts do not try to answer the question as it is given. Among the remaining 23 there are obvious causes of decided scatteration. Some live where farm sales of neglected bees are common, with resulting depression of prices. Some live where the winter problem is nothing, with the result that the two prices are the same, or nearly so. We'll take ^.00 in spring and in fall as the comparison figures. Three name these sums exactly and nothing else. Five more give answers that agree thereto, but with more or less of "frills" attached. So these prices have the assent of over one-third of the respondents. Three more name the same price in the spring but cheaper in the fall. Nine name them cheaper both fall and spring— lowest in Kentucky and Texas, where they are sometimes * or lower. Two name them higher both fall and spring. If you glance over and compare these ballots you will most likely conclude that (by popular suffrage) the comparison figures are at least a shaving too high. Page 245. EXTRACTED-HONET EXHIBITS—BEESWAX. S
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