May, 1914. 



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American Hee Journal 



show-case, so the honey will be pro- 

 tected from dirt and dnst. Cut the can 

 of honey open and place the solid 

 granulated cake on the tray. It is then 

 ready to be cut off, weighed and sold 

 by the pound in quantities to suit the 

 customer, the same as you would sell 

 lard or butter, and at a price that will 

 appeal to them as being an economical 

 food. If the store-keeper has the room 

 it vv ould be advisable to have three 

 trays, one for clover, one for amber, 

 and one for buckwheat honey. If the 

 space is limited, it would be best to 

 place on sale the clover honey. This 

 method reduces the cost of handling 

 and eliminates the e.xpense of li(iuefy- 

 ing and filling glass or tin packages, 

 and the cost of labels and packages. It 

 places the honey before the consumer 

 at the lowest possible price. 



This is one of the great questions 

 before the American people today, to 

 get products from the producer to the 

 consumer with the least possible ex- 

 pense, so that the so-called high cost of 

 living may be reduced. Honey may be 

 placed in stores in this way at from 8 

 to 11 cents per pound, and should be 

 retailed at from 12 to 1.5 cents per 

 pound. This is the lowest price at 

 which honey in any form can be re- 

 tailed for at a profit to both the pro- 

 ducer and seller. 



Mr, C. B. Howard in His Apiary. 



This is no theory that has not been 

 tried out, but the actual results that 

 have been under my observation as a 

 wholesale dealer. I would cite to you 

 one instance in a small city in this 

 State, where over 10,000 pounds of ex- 

 tracted honey were disposed of in this 

 manner in one winter, in addition to 

 the regular amount of comb honey and 



extracted sold in glass. If this method 

 of selling extracted honey could be 

 carried out throughout all the markets 

 in this country, a vast amount of honey 

 would be consumed, and there would 

 be a demand created for extracted 

 honey unheard of in the annals of ex- 

 tracted-honey production. 

 Geneva, N. Y. 



Convention ^ Proceedings 



The Pennsylvania State Beekeepers' 

 Convention 



The Pennsylvania State Beekeepers' 

 Association held their 10th annual 

 meeting in the State Capitol at Harris- 

 burg Feb. 20 and 21. It was a very 

 lively meeting, and from the point of 

 enthusiasm perhaps the best ever held. 



Dr. H. A. Surface, State Zoologist, 

 who is the president, was in charge of 

 the meeting. The address of welcome 

 was given by Hon. N. B. Critchfield, 

 who is the Secretary of .'\griculture of 

 Pennsylvania. 



The subject of "Comb and extracted 

 honey in the same apiary" was dis- 

 cussed by H. P. Faucett. He runs his 

 yard for both kinds of honey, and says 

 that colonies that sometimes cannot be 

 coaxed into section supers will work 

 in extracting frames. 



F. G. Fox spoke on "500 percent in- 

 crease and a crop of honey." He dem- 

 onstrated how it is possible with nat- 

 ural swarming to take the parent 

 colony after the swarm has issued and 

 divide it into nuclei and build these up 

 into full colonies. 



The foulbrood inspectors, Geo. H. 

 Rea and Jno. O. Buseman, made their 

 reports on inspection. These were 

 quite interesting in facts, and exceed- 

 ingly amusing in the experiences the 

 inspectors had with the different kinds 

 of people they met in their rounds. 

 Inspection is doing a great work for 

 beekeeping interests simply by the con- 

 tact of the inspector and the education 

 that is spread over the State in this 



way. Bees are yet kept in all sorts of 

 ways : logs, bee-gums, straw skeps, soap 

 boxes, and even some have been found 

 in beer kegs. 



The Coons hive for comb honey 

 was a demonstration made by R. L. 

 and A. N. Coons, of Coudersport. This 

 is a shallow chamber hive of their own 

 make, with which they have been very 

 successful. This year's crop was 28,000 

 pounds of section honey from 400 col- 

 onies. These people, father and son, 

 are the largest producers in the State. 

 Dr. E. F. Phillips, of the University 

 of Philadelphia, who was on his way 

 back from the National convention at 

 St. Louis, and who was the delegate 

 from Pennsylvania to the convention, 

 gave an address on "Two Essentials 

 in Honey Production." He laid em- 

 phasis on having the bees go into win- 

 ter quarters strong and with plenty 

 of stores, so as to have plenty of bees 

 early enough to get the honey-flow 

 when it comes. A large number of us 

 have plenty of bees when the main 

 flow is over and when the bees are not 

 needed. 



F. J. Stritmatter spoke on "House 

 Apiaries." This subject aroused con- 

 siderable interest, as it is quite novel 

 to Pennsylvania people. One of his 

 buildings is a 3-story building 20x30 

 feet. This contains 8fi colonies in hives 

 built solid to the floor of the room. 

 His experience tells him that he has 

 solved to a great extent the wintering 

 and the swarming problems by means 

 of the house apiary. 



"Soil Fertility and Honey Produc- 

 tion " was the subject of the president's 



annual address. Dr. Surface told the 

 beekeepers to increase the fertility of 

 their soil by sowing the legumes: 

 clover, alfalfa, vetches, etc., and by so 

 doing reap another crop, that of the 

 sweet nectar which these secrete. 



Dr. H. A. Surface, of Harrisburg, 

 was re-elected president ; H. C. Klinger, 

 of Liverpool, secretary-treasurer; Hon. 

 E. A. Weimer, of Lebanon, 1st vice- 

 president; Mrs. Dr. L. M. Weaver, of 

 Philadelphia, 2d vice-president; and R. 

 L. Coons, of Coudersport, 3d vice- 

 president. H. C. Klinger, Sec. 



In a Small Way. 



l/././OT-" Well, James. I'm going to start 

 bee-keeping. 



James—" Bees is nasty, troublesome things! 

 ma am.' 



.I/.j',;ot— "Oh. but I shall startMn a very 

 small way— just a pair to begin with.',— /,<■«- 

 don Sketch. 



