THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



will be best governed by each dealer. 



There is no trouble to get good, nice 

 prices for good, nice goods. Make the 

 same price to every body. We also find 

 it a good investment to advertise in the 

 local papers. 



What I have written is more in the line 

 of handling extracted honey than comb 

 honey, yet I see no reason j comb 

 honey cannot be profitably handled under 

 these same methods. 



Kingston, N. Y., Aug. 2, 1910. 



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EDITORIAL 



5tone is the poorest of all materials 

 used in building cellars, so far as resist- 

 ing frost is concerned. When used in 

 building a bee cellar, the earth ought to 

 be banked up against it on the outside. 

 Cement blocks are better than stone, 

 because of the hollow spaces in them. 



71.000 Pounds of honey from 900 

 colonies, spring count, increased to over 

 1,150 colonies, besides selling a car load 

 of bees to Mr. M. A. Gill, last spring— 

 that's the way a letter ends from E. F. 

 Atwater, of Meridian, Idaho. I tell you 

 such reports as that make me feel good — 

 looks as though "something was doing" 

 in our line of business. 



Editor of the Review in the Hospital. 



The last issue of the Review and this 

 one have been gotten out with the editor 

 100 miles away, on a cot in the Uni- 

 versity Hospital, at Ann Arbor, Michigan, 

 suffering from heart and stomach 

 troubles. At present he is able to sit up 

 and walk about a little, and expects to 

 be home before another issue of the 

 Review is printed. Full particulars will 

 be given next month; in the meantime, 

 subscribers will please be charitable re- 

 garding all short comings. 



A Chapter at a Time is how we Learn 

 our Business. 



Soon after 1 wrote my editorial last 

 May on the marketing of honey, I re- 

 ceived a letter from Mr. N. E. France on 



the subject. As usual, Bro. France 

 manages to say a great deal in a few 

 words. What he says is worthy a place 

 in the Review, so, here it is: 

 Dear Friend: 



I am pleased you have sounded 

 an important note to bee keeping, in your 

 editorial on marketing honey. I have 

 said many times we as bee keepers have 

 studied our business like reading a book. 

 One chapter at a time; and, so far, the 

 majority have only taken up the chap- 

 ters of production and handling bees for 

 profit, with profitable marketing yet to 

 study and master. We each have our 

 personal locality and circumstances. 

 We each must solve our marketing chap- 

 ter. One once large honey procucer, 

 who has devoted much time to the mar- 

 keting of honey, has of late devoted all 

 his time to selling tons of purchased 

 honey to consumers, with profit and fast 

 growing trade, now says one thing he 

 wants is to have producers put extracted 

 honey in friction top cans like syrup is 

 sold in, and save cost and repacking. 

 He then acts as middle man between 

 producer and consumer. Certainly one 

 good plan. Local and State Associations 

 of bee keepers can do as Michigan 

 Association, Colorado and several others 

 are doing, and members not worry about 

 marketing. National Association In- 

 formation Bureau also is another way to 

 help many. This much however is neces- 

 sary—every producer must sell good 

 quality honey. Color and flavor second. 

 Unripe honey, either in comb or ex- 

 tracted, spoils markets. 



Bro. France is correct: A chapter at 

 a time is the way we are learning our 

 business. The chapter on production is 

 not finished, by any means, but there is 

 more to learn, with profit, in the chapter 

 on marketing. 



