FIFTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART VIII. 533 



The bee-keepers in and around Minneapolis, realizing the difficulty of 

 marketing their product to the best advantage, decided to find a remedy, 

 so on May 20, 1914, a meeting was held at which the Tri-State Honey 

 Exchange was established. Among the members are many prominent 

 bee-keepers, some having one hundred colonies or more, who have success- 

 fully marketed their honey at very good prices in Minneapolis for years, 

 but they realized that it takes considerable time to handle their product 

 and decided they would rather hire somebody to do it for them, so they all 

 joined together and, in this way, were able to hire a good salesman and 

 keep him in a permanent position where he can do business with all the 

 bee-keepers who wish to market their honey in this way. 



The Tri-State Honey Exchange is a co-operative stock company, to 

 which over thirty members have subscribed for one share, each costing 

 $10.00. No member is allowed to have more than one vote. We want to 

 get as many bee-keepers as possible to join as stock-holders, but we are 

 doing business with anybody who is producing honey in Minnesota, Iowa 

 or Wisconsin, on exactly the same terms and everybody will receive the 

 same treatment. This is not a money-making institution and we must 

 buy our honey at a very low price to eliminate all chances of loss. 



Our manager, of course, will try to realize as much for his goods as 

 possible, but at the end of the year we return eighty per cent of all the 

 profit to the people who have furnished the honey. The stock-holders who 

 have helped establish this business will receive only ten per cent of the 

 profit and the balance is to be retained as a surplus and will be used to 

 buy equipment. 



This association, if managed right, will eventually become a big institu- 

 tion and have a good influence in maintaining fair and uniform prices for 

 honey. We, at the present time, find many localities where honey is 

 sold at $1.00 per gallon, or S% cents per pound, at retail. I know several 

 men who claim that all their extract honey sells at 25 cents per pound. 

 Why should there be so much difference, sometimes in one county, for 

 honey of the same quality? 



Let us all help make this Exchange a success so we may all reap the 

 benefit and work together for the good of the community. 



We want to help and encourage every large commercial center organize 

 a honey exchange. These exchanges can then organize and work together, 

 so when there is a failure of a crop in one section they can procure from 

 a section where there is a surplus. It will be to the best interest of the 

 bee-keepers to have an established trade always supplied. 



EXPERIENCE WITH EUROPEAN FOUL BROOD. 



J. I. WILTSIE, ARLINGTON, IOWA. 



My first experience with the disease was the summer of 1913. One of 

 my neighbor beekeepers who lives about one-half mile west of me, came 

 to my yard and wanted to look over some of my weak colonies, which we 

 did, and found nothing wrong. He informed me that there was some- 

 thing wrong with the brood in some of his colonies. We then visited 



