. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. V Entered at the Post-OflBce at Chicago as Second-Class Mail-Matter. aBOROB W. YORK, Editor. OilCAGO, ILL, NOV, 17,1904, Vol, XLIV—No, Cost of Selling Honey on Commission. Oa page 739, reference was made to a statement in the Bee-Keepers' Review that when honey was sold on commis- sion at 14 cents, the consignor could count on receiving only 10 cents a pound, the commission, etc., amounting to 4 cents a pound. With a view to some definite information, commission honey-dealers were invited to help out. One of the oldest and largest honey-selling c
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. V Entered at the Post-OflBce at Chicago as Second-Class Mail-Matter. aBOROB W. YORK, Editor. OilCAGO, ILL, NOV, 17,1904, Vol, XLIV—No, Cost of Selling Honey on Commission. Oa page 739, reference was made to a statement in the Bee-Keepers' Review that when honey was sold on commis- sion at 14 cents, the consignor could count on receiving only 10 cents a pound, the commission, etc., amounting to 4 cents a pound. With a view to some definite information, commission honey-dealers were invited to help out. One of the oldest and largest honey-selling commission houses in the country, R. A. Burnett & Co., has placed at our disposal account sales of a number of actual transactions, the honey having been received from points at different distances. In the charges there are three different items, freight or express, cartage, and commission. The charge for cart- age is the same whatever the distance from which the con- signment has been sent, or the price at which the honey is sold. As will be readily understood, however, cartage on a very small lot will be more per pound than that on large lots. On a 500-pound lot it will be about one-tenth of a cent a pound ; and it may be less than half that on a car-lot. Freight is the item on which, of course, there is the greatest variation. It may be nearly 2'2 cents a pound on a shipment from California to Chicago, or it may be only a fraction of a cent when shipped a short distance. As to commission, the commission house says : " We charge 10 percent commission on all honey in less than car-load lots; when it comes in car-load lots, and of an even grade, it pays us quite as well at S percent as the stnaller lots at 10 percent, for it is very seldom that the product of two apiaries runs alike when managed by dif- ferent owners. It is quite as easy for us (aside from the actual labor) to sell a car-load of honey as it is 100 cases, and sometimes easier than it is to sell 10 case
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