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QBORQE W. YORK, Editor. 



CHICAGO, ILL, OCT, 27, 1904. 



VoLXLIV-No,4 3, 



Educating the Public on Honey. 



The fact is that only a small part of the population 

 ever eats any honey from one year to another. We think 

 the reason is, because they don't know its value as a food. 

 Perhaps another reason is, on account of their having read 

 that it is machine-made, and so they conclude that they 

 don't want any. 



But no matter why more people don't eat honey, the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association will soon begin a cam- 

 paign of education, and try to do something toward famil- 

 iarizing more of the consuming public with honey. Several 

 honey circulars are to be issued for general distribution. 

 The prospect is that the Department of Agriculture at 

 Washington will issue a bulletin on the subject for free 

 circulation. 



It looks as if the time were near at hand when the 

 demand for honey is to be increased to something near what 

 it should be. When that time is come, there won't be 

 enough honey produced to supply the calls for it. Then 

 the price obtained by the producers will be higher, and bee- 

 keeping will be more profitable. 



In the honey-educating business, even bee-keepers can 

 take an important part. Eat honey — and talk honey. 



Appropriate Topics for Bee°Papers. 



Editor Hutchinson, of the Bee-Keepers' Review, gives 

 the following in his last number : 



At St. Louis I sat down near two bee-keepers who were 

 having an earnest discussion. The first sentence that 

 caught my ear was as follows : 



" I tell you, we don't care what his views are on the 

 temperance question, and he has no right using space in 

 his paper to air his views on the subject. We buy his paper 

 for what it can tell us about bees, and not to learn its edi- 

 tor's views on temperance." 



The other man replied : " I don't agree with you. 

 When a man owns and publishes a paper, he has a right to 

 put into it what he pleases, and if we don't like it we 

 needn't take his paper." 



" He has and he hasn't. As owner he has a right to 

 run his paper as he pleases, but the subscriber has some 

 rights, and when he sends his dollar for a bee-journal he 

 doesn't want pages and pages used in discussing temper- 

 ance, religion, gardening and automobiling," etc. 



I expected that he would include photography in the list, 

 but he didn't, but, then, he hadn't seen this issue of the 

 Review. 



Perhaps a little comparison would help. We paj' two 

 cents for a Chicago daily newspaper. Over half of it 



doesn't interest us any, so we don't read that part at all. 

 But what we do read is well worth the two cents we pay for 

 the whole paper. 



Another thing : Nearly every one these days sees a 

 sample copy of the bee-paper before subscribing. So he 

 knows just what to expect in future issues. Hardly seems 

 the reasonable thing to kick afterward, does it? 



We often think it's a good thing all people do not see 

 everything just alike. If they did, and they thought as do 

 sotne of our readers, all the other bee-papers would have to 

 quit the field. Then, again, if all thought as do sotne of 

 the readers of the other bee-papers we would have to shut 

 up shop. 



We believe we know all the bee-papers published in 

 America, and think that every one is well worth many 

 times the small price of the yearly subscription. 



Stopping Comb°noney Lies. 



Even a disinterested listener must have noticed at the 

 St. Louis convention of the National, that the uppermost 

 topic in the minds of those present was how to combat the 

 spread of the misrepresentations about comb honey in the 

 newspaper and magazine press of the country. At nearly 

 every session this subject would break out in some form or 

 other. 



The fact is, bee-keepers are getting exceedingly weary 

 of seeing their fair product maligned by those who know 

 nothing about it. And the prospect is that something effec- 

 tive will result from the action taken at the convention con- 

 cerning this matter. We trust the National will continue 

 to follow it up, and whenever a misstatement appears the 

 General Manager will be notified, then he Can get after it 

 at once, and request a correction. If that is not forthcom- 

 •ing, then demand it. Finally, if nothing satisfactory can 

 be had bj' either requesting or demanding, then threaten a 

 suit in the courts. It is long past time for the published 

 lies about comb honey to be ended. Bee-keepers need only 

 to stand together, and it will be accomplished, we believe. 



Attraction of Colors and Odors. 



Just how far bees, in their search for sweets, are guided 

 by colors and how far by odors, is an interesting if not a 

 profitable question. It is easy to know that they are guided 

 both by sight and scent. If they are working on a certain 

 flower, and an artificial flower of the same appearance be 



