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American Hee Journal 



August, 1915. 



case and lots of honey producers don't 

 know, evon at this late date what they 

 will do with their honey. It took but 

 little to supply their old customers 

 and to look up good and reliable new 

 ones is rather a hard task, for many 

 merchants and tirms are going out of 

 business, and are crying hard times, 

 and will not settle their accounts with 

 anything like promptness or satisfac- 

 tion. These conditions seem to prevail 

 in Dixie with no hope for better con- 

 ditions. 



Where the output is not too great, 

 it might be best to resort to a more 

 general development of the home or 

 nearby market. In Dixie the average 

 beekeeper has hitherto shamefully ne- 

 glected his home market, depending 

 solely on a far away market which is 

 not always the best and the most 

 satisfactory. This might be a good 

 time to surprise yourself as to how 

 much better satisfaction you can get 

 by placing your honey near home. Of 

 course the larger producer cannot do 

 this for the greater part of his crop 

 must go into the hands of dealers 

 who are in position to sell large quan- 

 tities. 



When you find out that the whole- 

 salers are Reliable and prompt in 

 settling, get together on a price and 

 if they cannot take your entire crop 

 ship them what they say they can 

 handle on thirty and sixty days time. 

 But in order to get their trade, you 

 have to have the honey packed at- 

 tractively tor the retail trade and well 

 repacked in cases and crates for the 

 jobbers and wholesalers. They will 

 not take it poorly put up, but if well 

 prepared for the trade nearly every 

 firm will take it and there will be no 

 trouble in making sales and general 

 satisfaction will be the result. 



When Does Beekeeping Pay? 



A clear insight and determination 

 generally result in success in any line 

 of business. But to make it a shining 

 success it must be made a hobby and 

 ridden, with the emphasis placed on 

 the ride. 



Beekeeping is a hobby in nearly 

 everyone's hands but the great trouble 

 is that it is not "ridden." There are 

 not many apiaries that have the at- 

 tention and consideration they sho\ild 

 have. It is not astonishing that so few 

 people are making money in our line 

 of business. I believe the time is at 

 hand when beekeepers ought to awak- 

 en to the fact that they are not doing 

 their best and that on account of this 

 there are not more money makers in 

 our ranks. 



I visited a beekeeper once, who had 

 only one apiary of about 90 colonies, 

 but around each hive was a well 

 trodden path, and he was there at work 

 just as if he was rushed. As it was at 

 a slack time in the general apiary 

 work I asked. "What do you do here 

 so much?" and his rejily was sim))1y 

 "Riding my hobby daily." 



Some time after this I met a travel- 

 ing man who was representing some 



MR. GKO. ECKERT DEMONSTRATING WATER TREATMENT FOR FOULBROOD 

 AT CEDAREDGE FIELD MEET 



manufacturing concern and working 

 on commission and he told me that 

 he had been a beekeeper for more 

 than 20 years but he had not been 

 contented and had moved about con- 

 siderably and had finally gotten into 

 a very poor location and had to sell 

 his bees and quit beekeeping. He was 

 not contented with his present job and 

 was going back into beekeeping again 

 as soon as he could. I asked him 

 where it was he previously "stuck." 

 It developed that he had sold out to 

 the energetic beekeeper mentioned 



above . 



A few years later I again had oc- 

 casion to spend a few hours with this 

 energetic beekeeper. At this time, in- 

 stead of 90 colonies in this yard there 

 were 200. and instead of the crude 

 honey-house, there was erected one of 

 the most modern honey-houses, and 

 two out-yards of l-'iO colonies each had 

 been established besides. 



He also had a good bank account 

 and I learned that all the improve- 

 ments and increase he had made were 

 with the start of 90 colonies. 



Notes From ^ Ab r oad 



Bv C. 1' Uadant. {i'i'iu/ii.li\l.' 



Paris is the universal city, the city 



that every traveler in luirope visits, in 



which there is so much of art to be 



•seen. We were there ten days in July; 



we remained nine days longer in Octo- 



ber. With the bewitching daughters 

 of our friend and correspondent in 

 Haris, Mr. Gariel, we visited the Louvre, 

 the opera, etc. To enjoy Paris fully, 

 nothing equals the company of charm- 



