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A Wartime 

 Appeal 



To American 

 Beekeepers 



THE PRESENT CRISIS INTO WHICH OUR COUNTRY HAS BEEN FORCED IS A SUPREME 

 TEST OF THE USEFULNESS OF YOUR INDUSTRY AND IS THE GREATEST OPPORTU- 

 NITY BEEKEEPING HAS EVER HAD TO SHOW ITS VALUE TO THE NATION. THE ANNUAL 

 PRODUCTION OF THREE HUNDRED MILLION POUNDS OF HONEY MUST BE INCREASED 

 AT ONCE BY AT LEAST ONE HUNDRED MILLION POUNDS TO FILL THE DEMAND AND TO 

 FIVE TIMES AS MUCH AS SOON AS FACILITIES ARE AVAILABLE. 



Every pound of honey produced will release 

 its equivalent of butter or sugar for other pur- 

 poses of food. 



On account of the prospective shortage of 

 sugar a large production of honey is imperative. 



Push your production to the utmost, giving 

 preference in times such as this to extracted 

 honey, because in that way the total honey sup- 

 ply may be more greatly increased. Remember 

 that two comb honey supers may easily be con- 

 verted into a deep extracting super or a hive 

 body. 



Affiliate with your state beekeepers' associa- 

 tion and with your local beekeepers' association 

 if you have one. Field meetings should be en- 

 couraged early in summer to give practical infor- 

 mation on manipulation, etc. 



Order your bee supplies early and order 

 standard goods in order to save lime and enable 

 manufacturing plants to accomplish the most in 

 the shortest possible time. 



Be sure that you are provided with a liberal 



quantity of containers at the outset in order that 

 the present seeming shortage in tin and glass- 

 ware may not prevent the sale of your honey 

 when it is ready for market. 



Sell all or as much of your honey as possible 

 on your home market. It will bring greater 

 profit to yourself commensurate with the cost of 

 production and retail handling. It will help re- 

 lieve freight congestion and will offer oppor- 

 tunity for the beekeeper who cannot sell at home 

 to get a living price for his product. At present 

 over ninety per cent of the honey crop is sold on 

 the home market. 



If you sell honey at wholesale, do not sell un- 

 til you have full information concerning the needs 

 of wholesale markets. Such information is fur- 

 nished by the Office of Markets of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture at Washington, D. C, to the 

 bee journals and to individual beekeepers. The 

 beekeeper will readily see the folly of dumping 

 his honey without knowledge of the markets, as 

 this demoralizes the market, with profit only to 

 the speculator. 



REMEMBER, IN HARMONY WITH THE GENERAL CALL MADE BY THE PRESIDENT, ALL 

 BEEKEEPERS NOW OWE IT TO THE NATION, IN ORDER THAT BEEKEEPING MAY 

 FULFILL ITS HIGHEST OBLIGATION, TO REDOUBLE THEIR EFFORTS TO INCREASE THE 

 IMPORTANCE OF BEEKEEPING AS AN AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY WHICH CONSERVES A 

 VALUABLE NATIONAL RESOURCE AND WHICH PRODUCES A NON-PERISHABLE, CONCEN- 

 TRATED, WHOLESOME FOOD WHICH PLAYS A VERY IMPORTANT PART IN THE ENDUR- 

 ANCE OF ANY NATION. 



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