per pound more when selling a few pounds 

 only than I would on a sale of 100 pounds. 

 If selling by the 1000 pounds, I should make 

 the price still less. 



We must make a difference in the prices 

 of extracted and comb honey. We can sell 

 the extracted honey at a low price which 

 will be within the reach of all who wish to 

 ent it as regular as butter. We can afford it 

 at a low price, but the comb honey we can- 

 not; and we do not need to, for it is not 

 bought as an article of diet but as a luxury 

 — to have something a little extra— and, 

 brother bee-keepers, we must get this comb 

 honey in such shape as will appear extra 

 nice for an extra price. 



To create a home market among our 

 neighbors, relations and friends, among 

 those who frequently eat at our table, or 

 call in while we are eating to live (not liv- 

 ing to eat), we should always have honey on 

 our tables in such dishes as are suitable for 

 the show and convenience of handling. A 

 large syrup stand for liquid honey in sum- 

 mer is convenient and neat. An open dish 

 for candied honey in winter, and if we wish 

 to ornament our table with comb honey, 

 then put a nice cake in a fruit glass with lid. 

 Make it appear, as is really the case, that 

 we have plenty of honey and can afford to 

 eat all we want and at all times, thereby 

 setting a silent example to induce others to 

 do likewise. Eleven years ago I took din- 

 ner with a bee-keeper, who had honey on 

 the table in such a disii, and the conversa- 

 tion was such as to show me that it was not 

 expensive as a regular article of diet. How 

 opposite are the silent teachings of a small 

 glass with a teaspoon ! If he cannot afford 

 to have plenty. 1 cannot. 



Friends, if I have not written in the 

 usual way for such articles, just remember 

 that they are only a few dry Chips from 

 Sweet Home. D. D. Palmer. 



Eliza, Mercer Co., 111. 



Central Kentucky Convention. 



The semi-annual meeting of the Blue 

 Grass Bee-keepers' Association took place 

 on Tuesday, May 7, 1878. 



The meeting was all that could be desired, 

 except for the unavoidable absence of two 

 of its most prominent members, who were 

 expected to deliver addresses, namely : Dr. 

 S. E. Mitchell, of Bourbon Co., and John W. 

 Bean, of Clark county. 



President Patterson called the Conven- 

 tion to order. On motion, the rules were 

 dispensed with, and opportunity allowed 

 those who were not already members to 

 become so, when 7 gentlemen enrolled. — 

 After the reading of the minutes of the last 

 meeting. President Patterson delivered the 

 following able and instructive address, on 



THE ORIGIN AND VALUE OF GO-OPERATIVE 

 EFFORT : 



Following the example of others in the 

 United States, the bee-Keepers of Northern 

 and Central Kentucky felt that the interests 

 of bee culture and the economical and com- 

 mercial results which may be legitimately 

 expected therefrom demanded an organiza- 

 tion, which should unite the efforts and 



bring together the intelligence of those who 

 apply themselves to this pursuit — such an 

 organization, moreover, as would co-ordi- 

 nate the experiences and subject to practi- 

 cal tests the various views, whicli from 

 time to time obtain currency among those 

 who, for pleasure or profit, study the habits 

 of the industrious little workers. 



In response to the invitation and sug- 

 gestion of the Secretary, I propose very 

 briefly to say a few words on the benefits of 

 co-operative effort, and the grounds on 

 which it rests. 



Co-operative activity is a sjiecial phase of 

 modern culture and enterprise. But it is 

 by no means of recent or factitious growth. 

 It began with the dawn of human existence, 

 and found its earliest form of expression in 

 human society. The family, the tribe, the 

 municipality and the state are all various 

 forms under which it manifested, and still 

 manifests its existence. Isolation is incom- 

 patible with human instincts as well as 

 with human interests. We can not con- 

 ceive of an existence for the race in which, 

 literally speaking, every man's hand is 

 against that of every other. In the infancy 

 of mankind the conditions and necessities 

 of existence brought them together for 

 mutual defense, and for the attainment of a 

 common subsistence. In subduing nature, 

 man would have been powerless without 

 the co-operation of his tellows. When the 

 first means of defense were provided for, 

 when by common effort immunity was 

 secured against attacks of the savage beast, 

 when shelter from wind, storm, frost and 

 snow wei'e obtained, and the means of 

 temporary subsistence acquired, the foun- 

 dations of civil society were laid. The 

 spontaneous impulse of a common sym- 

 pathy, quickened by the apprehension of a 

 common danger, brought men together and 

 actuated them to united effort. 



Out of connnon effort grew common 

 rights and common obligations, which, 

 recognized by a common moral sense, were 

 antecedent to all legislation, and were the 

 roots from which legislation sprang. Thus 

 the sympathies, intei'ests and instincts of 

 men, shaped almost unconsciously for them 

 the beginning of society, and established 

 the unwritten law upon which rested the 

 foundations of civil government. From 

 these germs grew the mighty fabrics of 

 ancient nationality. Upon this foundation 

 was built the colossal structures which 

 aspired to universal sovereigntj% and which, 

 in the splendid succession of ancient mon- 

 archies, beginning on the banks of the 

 Tigris and ending on the shores of the 

 Bosphorus, went far to realize the possibil- 

 ity of world-wide dominion. But the idea 

 01 co-operation and organization found 

 expression in other forms, and in other 

 relations than in civil government. Its 

 beneficent results were not confined to the 

 family, the city, the canton and the State.— 

 When men looked into their own con- 

 sciences they discovered thoughts and 

 feelings, hopes and fears, rights and obliga- 

 tions not bounded by the narrow limits of 

 material organization around them. While 

 men in genei'al were drawn together by a 

 common sense of dependence upon some- 

 thing beyond and above nature, some in 



