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GLEANINGS IN BEE CUIvTURE. 



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this combine, many who now market fruit 

 with profit would be out of the bus'lness, and 

 miany who now have fruit to eat would not 

 have it. 



Now let us apply the ideas to honey-pro- 

 ducers. An apiarian organization must neces- 

 sarily be much more extensive and far reach- 

 ing, because our products are from widely dis- 

 tributed territory, and are sent over great dis- 



ter should be by and with the others. When 

 a few of us in a county or State have, by hard 

 study and work, wrought out a good thing, 

 why not all fall in and use the results of this 

 knowledge and experience, instead of groping 

 along over the same ground '^^^'^!^!^ ip 



We have in Colorado a marketing associa- 

 tion known as "The Colorado Honey-pro- 

 ducers' Association." This is a corporation 



O. O. POPPI,ETON. — SEE EDITORIALS. 



tances. A big crop of honey in the Atlantic 

 and Pacific States means competition to the in- 

 terior, and vice versa. Ivoveland small fruits 

 seldom go out of the State ; but my honej' 

 may go to Boston. A county organization is 

 a good thing ; a State is better ; but a nation- 

 al CO operation is by far better than either. 

 The former can operate separately, but the lat- 



doing business under the laws of our' State. 

 The statutes provide that any organization or 

 association doing business for profit must in- 

 corporate. Of course, we expected to do_busi- 

 ness for profit, so we incorporated. - ;;;:::_ ,^ 

 Right here I want to protest against a com- 

 mon idea that seems to be in the minds of 

 many — that we should not organize for-profit, 



