November, 1916. 



American Hae Journal k 



Honey Boosted Again — The Chicago 

 News, in its issue of Oct. 2, was asked 

 the following question by a subscriber : 

 "Is not the appetite a safe guide to fol- 

 ow in selection of food ?" 

 A portion of the reply given follows : 



Fond parents indulge the " sweet 

 tooth" instinct of their loved ones by 

 means of candy, jams, jellies, syrup, and 

 the never ending list of denatured 

 sweets upon which the happiness of 

 the child is thought to depend so 

 largely. 



In these delicacies such denatured 

 products as refined sugar, glucose and 

 sulphured molasses figure to a consid- 

 erable extent. 



The more natural maple sugarand the 

 unrefined natural brown sugar and 

 honey are usually neglected in the 

 preparation of the child's food. As a 

 result the appetite for sweets that is 

 undoubtedly an expression of the re- 

 quirement of the body for the sugary 

 principles of fruits is converted into 

 one which only appreciates the more 

 concentrated products of the cane re- 

 finery, the sulphur plant and the glu- 

 cose factory. 



The jaded appetite of the middle 

 aged man or woman has its beginning 

 in the debased appetite of the sugar fed 

 child. Sugar intoxication is as unnat- 

 ural as whiskey intoxication. 



Northwestern Meeting at Chicago. — 



The Chicago-Northwestern Beekeepers' 

 Association will meet in Chicago on 

 Dec. 4 and 5, 1916. For information 

 address the secretary, Mr. John C. Bull, 

 Route 8, Valparaiso, Ind. 



Quebec Meeting. — The Beekeepers' 

 Association of the Province of Quebec 

 will hold its annual meeting at Mon- 

 treal Nov. 15 and 16. For particulars, 

 address Oscar Comire, Secretary, 

 Abenakis Springs, Quebec. 



New York State Meeting The an- 

 nual meeting of the New York State 

 Association of Beekeepers' Societies 

 will be held in Canandaigua, N.Y., Dec. 

 5 and 6. F. Greiner, Secretary, Naples, 



N. Y. 



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Iowa Meeting. — The Iowa State Bee- 

 keepers' Association will meet in Des 

 Moines Dec. 5 and 6. Everybody in- 

 vited. 



For program, address Hamlin B. 

 Miller, Marshalltown, Iowa. 



Illinois Meeting. — The 26th annual 

 meeting of the Illinois State Beekeep- 

 ers' Association will be held in Spring- 

 field onWednesday and Thursday, Nov. 

 15 and 16, 1916. Further notice will be 

 given in the dailies, and individual 

 notices with program sent to all the 

 members of the association. Jas. A. 

 Stone, Secretary, Rt. 4, Springfield, 111. 



Minnesota Convention.— The Minne- 

 sota State Beekeepers' Association will 

 meet at West Hotel, Minneapolis, 

 Minn., Dec. 5 and 6, 1916. 



For information concerning this 

 meeting address L. V. France, Secre- 

 tary, University Farm, St. Paul, Minn. 



Western New York Producers Meet. 



— The annual meeting of the Western 

 New York Honey Producers' Associa- 

 tion will be held Nov. 14 to 16, at the 

 American Hotel Hall at Akron, N. Y. 

 As this has been a good season for 

 beekeepers a good attendance is ex- 

 pected. Every one interested in bees 

 is welcome. Wm. F. Vollmer, Sec. 



Chicago Bank Uses Bees to Teach 

 Thrift. — A well known Chicago bank, 

 the Greenebaum Sons Bank & Trust 

 Company, recently attracted consider- 

 able new business by means of a win- 

 dow display in which bees were exhib- 

 ited. The idea was originated by W. 

 J. Greenebaum, cashier of the bank, 



honey, they would be starving now 

 Are you saving any money for future 

 use ?" 



"If you want some honey in later 

 days when honey may be hard to get, 

 start storing a little every day." 



An accident when the hives were 

 being brought to the bank turned out 

 to be " silver lined." The man carry- 

 ing the glass hives collided with a 

 pedestrian just before entering the 

 bank, and dropped a hive containg sev- 

 eral thousand bees. The result was a 

 near-riot which, however, was rather 

 more amusing than serious, and the 

 newspapers found in it material for 

 first-page articles, all of which men- 

 tioned the unique window display. Mr. 

 Greenebaum was quoted as saying: "I 

 am sorry this accident happened. I 

 wanted to give Chicagoans a lesson in 

 economy, but did not intend it should 

 be driven in that hard. 



" The display drew large crowds of 

 interested spectators." 



A County Exhibit — Langlade County, 

 Wis., beemen put on an excellent dis- 



A CHICAGO BANK USES HONEY BEES TO TEACH THRIFT 



who decided that live bees could be 

 made to serve as an object lesson in 

 thrift. 



The window was arranged to repre- 

 sent a rural scene, with a clover field, 

 farm house, and grazing cattle. The 

 base of the window was covered with 

 grass matting, earth, and bark, and two 

 regulation beehives were installed. 

 Savings banks were strewn along a 

 path leading from the hives to the 

 clover field, and sign posts drove home 

 the lesson of thrift by means of the 

 following legends: 



" If men were as wise as these little 

 bees, there would never be any pau- 

 pers." 



" If these bees had not saved their 



play at the Free County Fair at Antigo. 

 Sept. 19 to 22. The fair management 

 placed a large booth in the main fair 

 building at the disposal of the beekeep- 

 ers. The booth was attractively deco- 

 rated with bunting, and honey, both 

 comb and extracted, and other bee- 

 products were tastefully arranged about 

 the booth. Bee-supplies also formed 

 part of the exhibit. 



Interested house-wives were given 

 an attractive booklet with recipes on 

 the use of honey in cooking. Proof of 

 the esteem in which the booklets are 

 held was shown in the way neighbors 

 a nd friends of women who got them 

 came back the next day for copies. 



