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American Hee Journal 



July, 1915. 



Some concern wishes to introduce 

 into your own town a new baking 

 powder or brand of coffee, or a new 

 kind of easily prepared pudding or 

 breakfast food. What is done? Why, 

 this concern simply rents a small space 

 in your leading grocery store, attrac- 

 tively covers a table, puts a few dishes 

 on it, has an interesting young woman 

 nicely dressed behind it, and then pro- 

 ceeds to deal out samples. Now, you 

 can do the same thing with your 

 honey. It would be a very easy matter 

 for you to obtan space in one of the 

 leading groceries; in fact, you could 

 do it better than an outside concern. 

 Probably it wouldn't cost you a cent, 

 if you arranged with the grocery store 

 to sell your honey after you had intro- 

 duced it and e.xploited it. 



In a nutshell, what I am trying to get 

 at is the factthat thedemandfor honey 

 is at your own door if you will only 

 hear it knocking. You know there is 

 such a thing as getting so close to a 

 thing that you can't see it. If the aver- 

 age honey producer will combine with 

 his honey business a little energy, 

 throw a little of his personality into 

 his work, apply busness principles, 

 not be afraid to risk a dollar if he 

 can get two back, he will be successful 

 and all the honey he can raise will be 

 sold. 



Watertown, Wis. 



Cleaning Up Foulbrood 



BY A. L. KILDOW. 

 Ullinois State Inspector) 



■ AM sending two pictures, showing 

 a comb of American foulbrood and 

 the burning of an apiary in Will 

 county. 



On May 13, I answered a call from 

 Plainlield complaining that a beekeeper 

 let his bees die of American foulbrood 

 and allowed them to be robbed out by 

 the neighborhood bees. On arriving 

 at the apiary I found three colonies 

 that had bees, two very weak the other 

 of fair strength, but all badly affected 

 with American foulbrood. The owner 

 had done nothing to stop robbing ; the 

 entrance was left wide open except 



A GROUP OF VISITORS IN THE APIARY OF A. E. CRANDALL & SON 



where the dead beeshad dropped down 

 and clogged it. 



I went to the field where the owner 

 was planting corn, and had a talk with 

 him. He told me the story that I so 

 often hear, he had "too much work to 

 do, and as the bees were a side issue, 

 they had to be neglected;" and, by the 

 way, this man is a wood farmer and a 

 good man, and does not mean to do 

 his neighbor beekeepers any injury, 

 but something had to be neglected, 

 and it was the bees. 



I explained as best I could what 

 would happen by letting his bees rot 

 down with foulbrood and be robbed 

 out. I advised him under the condi- 

 tions to burn them. He agreed, and 

 gave me permission to do it. 



So after dinner a neighbor and ly- 

 self, equipped with spade and camera, 

 went to the apiary. I dug a large hole 

 about two feet deep, gathered a quan- 

 tity of wood and made a good fire ; 

 we then took a wheelbarrow and 

 wheeled the hives to the fire, took out 

 the frames of brood and honey a id 

 piled them on. When all was burning 

 well we took the two pictures. The 

 fire does not show very plainly, as 

 there was very little smoke. 



I dislike to resort to fire, but some- 

 timesit has to be done, and I hope 

 that all who see these pictures and 

 read this will be vigilant, and not 

 allow their bees to get in this condi- 

 ti(in. 



Putnam, 111. 



ILLINOIS STATE INSPECTOR KILDOW HfRNlNC. A FARMI'.R BEEKEICPEK S 

 COLONIES WHERE AMERICAN KOULBKOOU WAS RAMPANT 



The Value of Fairs to the 

 Beekeeper 



BY A. E. CRANDALL. 



I WONDER how many of the bee- 

 keepers who live near cities or 

 towns where fairs are held take ad- 

 vantage of the opportunity to show 

 their product, and in this way get in 

 touch with the thousands of people 

 who annually gather at these places, 

 and who go there to see what new 

 things are being brought out, to talk 

 with old friends, make new ones, and 

 to have a good time in general. 



The Connecticut Beekeepers' Asso- 

 ciation is doing excellent work along 

 this line, and many words of praise are 

 heard for their large "Bee and Honey 

 Exhibit " which is annually placed at 

 the Connecticut Fair in the city of 

 Hartford. The Fair opens on Labor 

 Day, and so gives the laboring classes 

 an opportunity to see what is going on 

 in the agricultural line as well as in 

 the industrial 



I understand there are something 

 like 70, null people who pass through the 

 gate on that day. Doesn't that seem 

 like a tine chance to put bees and honey 

 before the public ? Another thing, the 

 fairs are educating people to realize 

 the value of honey in making cakes, 

 cookies, muffins, and in canning fruit. 

 The culinary department at the Hart- 

 ford Fair provides for an exhibit of 

 this kind, and the following classes 

 and prizes given will give some idea of 

 what can be done along this line, and 

 this encourages the use of honey : 



PREMIUMS 



Class 1st 2d 3d 



18.— Honey muffins $j oo $2.00 Ji.oo 



ig.— Cookies and Einfier snaps. 4.00 200 i.oo 



20,— Cake 4.00 2,00 1,00 



21. — Canned pickles 4.00 200 i.oo 



22,— ■' Iniii ..1.00 200 1,00 



Honey to be used in preparation of 

 above and receipt attadu-^l. A good many 

 times one can find a storekeeper who 



