Excerpt from The American Apiculturist, Vol. 5: A Journal Devoted to Practical Beekeeping
During the past several years we have heard farmers complaining of the exorbitant charges of railroad corporations and of the profits of middle men. We should naturally suppose that, under these circum stances, they would use the railroads as little as possible and find custo mers for their products without the intervention of the middle man. We should scarcely expect that farmers would sell their hogs for instance, as many are now doing, for three cents per pound, pay freight on them to some distant city, pay a profit to the dealer, to the packer, to the whole saler, and then buy hams and lard back again when they might as well kill their own hogs, cure their own pork, render their own lard, and sell them to their neighbors direct.
If one will look around him he cannot fail to see that it is simply custom running wild. It may be wondered what this has to do with bees or honey. It has not had much to do heretofore, but the time is drawing near when itis likely to have considerable to do with the profits of the apiary.
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