THE BEE-KEEPERS* REVIEW. 



pany, and the papers of incorporation 

 are now pending— term of years fifty, 

 witli a capital stock at $25,000. Each 

 stand of bees is to represent a share 

 of stock having a par value of Ave 

 cents per share. This is so placed 

 that it will not exclude any one from 

 coming in. They are to have a board 

 of five directors, who will elect and 

 employ a general manager, whose 

 duty will be to grade all honey, seal 

 the same with a seal bearing the name 

 of the National Association, which will 

 guarantee to its consumers the pure 

 article. After the honey is graded 

 and sealed, it is never to be opened 

 until opened for consumption. Any 

 one who will buy a case of California 

 honey whose seal has not been affixed, 

 or if it has been broken, will, in the 

 future, take the risk of getting what 

 he orders; but, on the other hand, if 

 the package that he orders bears the 

 seal of the California National Honey 

 Producers' Association, he can depend 

 upon it that he has the genuine ar- 

 ticle. This should be encouraged 

 everywhere; and let every locality so 

 organize, but be sure to recognize tlie 

 National Honey Producers' Associa- 

 tion by leaving a place to "couple on" 

 when the latter organization has been 

 perfected. 



A UNIOUK AND HANDY METHOD OF 

 SAMPLING HONEY. 



Grading rules will be discussed so 

 that they will be uniform as nearly as 

 is possible. When the official grader 

 of the National Honey Producers' As- 

 sociation takes a sample out of a case 

 of honey, this sample is then placed 

 in a sample bottle, and the bottle is 

 then placed in a hole that was prev- 

 ioiisly bored in the center-piece of the 

 shipping case, so that when there is 

 any reason for sampling the honey in 

 any case it will not be necessary to 

 break the seal, simply lift the sample- 

 bottle from the center-board. 



I again suggest that every well-to-do 

 bee-keeper, or any other bee-keeper of 

 good standing in a community where 

 there is no commercial organization, 

 take the responsibility upon himself, 

 and effect such an organization. The 

 plan of the Colorado Honey Produc- 

 ers' Association is a good one; it is 

 very much like ours of California, 

 and, perhaps, the Colorado plan is bet- 

 ter known than some other. Have a 

 central place to transact the business, 

 also a business manager to do the 

 business, whose duty chould be to 

 grade, seal and sell all the products 

 of its members except the honey sold 

 at retail. All honey sold at retail, by 

 any producer, will be free from any 

 charge of the Association. And any 

 member who can tvu'n over to the 

 manager of their local Association an 

 order for a car of honey will receive 

 a specified per cent of the sale of the 

 same, up to the amount of his own 

 product. This the local Association 

 can just as well do as to pay it to 

 some broker, and in this way the pro- 

 ducer who now has a trade, and Is 

 selling by the carload lot, will retain 

 his customers, and it will be made an 

 object for him to do so. The same 

 way with the retail man; he will not 

 be called upon for a commission upon 

 the honey that he sells in this way. 

 By retail, I mean in lots less than car- 

 loads. So you will see that it encour- 

 ages the selling of the honey by the 

 members both in small and car lots, 

 and at the same time it is the strictest 

 kind of co-operation, and not competi- 

 tive as we now have it. 



A GIGANTIC BROKERAGE SYSTEM. 



When the National Honey Produc- 

 ers' Association is fully organized it 

 will be a gigantic brokerage system; 

 one that will be perfectly safe and re- 

 liable; one in which all its goods will 

 be of its own production and offered 

 to the market from these local organ- 



