For tue American Bee Journal. 



Creating a Honey Market. 



Deak Editor:— Tlie February iminber 

 of your valuable Jouknai. is at hand. On 

 paji;e 41, 1 notice an article by friend R. M. 

 Argo, of Lowell, Ky., about various mat- 

 ters, in which the first sub-heading is:— 

 " Honey Market." 



To create a larger demand for honey, I 

 think it would be a good plan, if you would 

 collect some recipes, like that of making 

 jellies, etc. with honey, which is, for a good 

 many purposes, superior to sugar; print 

 them, with some articles about its superior- 

 ity and healthful ness over sugar, syrup and 

 molasses, in pamphlet form. I think every 

 bee-keeper could afford to buy liberal quan- 

 tities and distribute tiiem among the people 

 in their vicinity. This, no doubt, would 

 help to create a larger demand for honey, as 

 it would be read by a great many who do 

 not read a newspaper. Will you try it? 



Mr. Argo speaks very truly of an enemy 

 to tiie bee-keeper, the "glutted market." — 

 In my neighborhood, tliere are some farm- 

 ers that keep from 5 to 20 colonies each, 

 who raise from 1 to 300 lbs. of honey; they 

 are anxious to dispose of it. They consider 

 it a " big pile," and consequently otter it 

 below the local market price, and that 

 having been once reduced, people are not 

 willing to pay more afterwards. If the 

 larger apiarists will not sell their honey for 

 the same price as these farmers do, they 

 cannot sell any, as long as these farmers 

 have any left for sale. 



It does not come into their minds to sub- 

 scribe for The Bee Journal, or buy any 

 books treating on bee-culture. If there is 

 any trouble among their bees, they fre- 

 quenty go to apiarists to inquire what to do 

 with them, etc. Without such information, 

 it would sometimes be costly to them. 



Therefore, I think such a small pamphlet, 

 as is above mentioned, were printed, with 

 name of producer on it, it would be a great 

 help to enlarge the demand for honey in the 

 vicinity of every bee-keeper, and I, for one, 

 would buy a good quantity of them. 



I retail honey at liome: Extracted, ISJ^c. 



er lb. Comb," (small lots, from 4 to 5 lbs.), 

 or 20c. per lb. 



Bees are doing well in the cellar. I put 

 in, last fall, 159 colonies, in good condition. 

 We have had an unusually mild winter 

 here, and very little snow. 



Fred Claussen. 



Mishicott, Wis. Feb. 7, 1ST8, 



[ You are right, friend Claussen. A neat 

 and attractive pamphlet, setting forth the 

 various uses, both for food and medicine, of 

 pure honey, as well as its general adapta- 

 tion to the wants of the human family, 

 would do much good, just now. No one 

 can conceive how much it would help in 

 creating a demand for that wonderfully 

 luitritious, health-giving and soul-reviving 

 produrt of nature ! 



Before the advent of sugars and many vile 

 compounds, called "syrups," "silver drips," 



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&c., honey was the only sweet in general 

 use. And to-day it is the common article 

 of food among many nations, especially 

 among the Polanders, the Russians, and the 

 inhabitants of the Orient. And it is a 

 notorious fact that those nations, among 

 whom the use of honey is general, excell all 

 others in health, physical strength and en- 

 durance ! 



It is undeniable that pure honey is the 

 simplest, the healthiest, the most natural, 

 and the most strengthening article of food 

 for healthy persons, as well as the best 

 remedy for the sick; and for the convales- 

 cent it is the true balsam of life, to restore 

 them to their Avonted health and strength! 



Knowing these facts, we cannot dodge 

 the responsibility— and though we are 

 much crowded with other duties, we will, 

 at once, write the pamphlet requested by 

 friend Claussen. 



On another page may be found a pros- 

 pectus, mapping out the line of thought to 

 be pursued, and soon after this Journal 

 is in the hands of subscribers, we hope to 

 have the pamphlet ready to send to all who 

 desire to co-operate in this most laudable 

 enterprize of giving valuable information to 

 their fellow men. and at the same time aid 

 in creating an over-whelming demand for 

 this wondertui product of nature— pure 

 honey. 



To make its appearance inviting, we shall 

 print it in plain, readable type, on fine book 

 paper— for much valuable information is 

 rendered useless, when poorly printed on 

 inferior paper. 



A sample copy will be sent post paid, for 

 10 cents. We shall supply them in lots of 

 100 or more at a very low rate, to encourage 

 all to take hold of the enterprise. Without 

 extra cost, we shall also print on the top of 

 the cover-page " Presented by," &c. (giving 

 the name and address of the bee-keeper 

 who scatters them). This alone will pay 

 him for all his trouble and expense— ena- 

 bling him to dispose of his honey at home, 

 at a fair and profitable price. 



In lots of 100 we will send them, postpaid, 

 for .5 cents each; in lots of 250 copies, at 4 

 cents each; in lots of 500 or 1000 copies at 3 

 cents each. When more than 100 copies are 

 wanted they will be sent by express, at the 

 expense of the purchaser. 



We verily believe that one hundred copies 

 of this pamphlet, judiciously distributed in 

 every honey-producing locality, will forever 

 annihilate the cry of " ghitted market.^' In 



