1907. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 143 



ARTICLES WANTED BY THE articles receiving the highest mark- 



COMMITTEE ON ADVER- |"gs in the aggregate will be used and 



TISING HONEY ''■^ author paid $5.00. Everybody is 



invited to contribute, no limit to num- 



The $1,408.27 raised by the Honey ber of articles each person may send 



Producers' League has been turned m- Perhaps 30 or more articles will 



Qver to the National Association. A be used. Please write plainly on one 



committee appointed to spend that side of paper, or better still use a 



money in advertising honey and typewriter if possible. 



otherwise advertising its sales. N. E. France, Platteville, Wis. 



The first plan to be put into opera- W. Z. Hutchinson, Flint, Mich, 



tion will be that of publishing in the R- L. Taylor, Lapeer, Mich, 



general press, short articles setting Committee. 



forth the healthfulness, deliciousness, 



purity and desirability of honey as OUR "BELOVED PURSUIT." 



a food. The purpose for which these j y^ wkir. 

 articles are written need not appear 



upon the surface. It is better that When springtime breezes first ar- 



it should not appear, but there ought rive, 'tis then the denizen of the hive, 



to be something about each article or otherwise the busy bee, goes forth 



that would unconsciously lead the between cold snaps to see what the 



reader to have a better opinion of prospect is for nectar in the early 



honey, to have greater confidence in apple bloom. Then the beeman's 



its purity and healthfulness, or knowl- woes begin; bees have dwindled away 



edge of its economic value as a food, like sin; half his colonies are dead and 



That honey is not an expensive food, he "hasn't nary red;" but he fetches 



requires no cooking, no sweetening, out the feeders from the musty hon- 



nor other special preparation, but is ey room. Then he sells the brindle 



the "whole thing" ready for use. That calf; spends fourteen dollars and a 



choice bakings sweetened with honey half for sugar at the grocery store; 



do not dry up as quickly as sugar sells the cow and buys some more; 



sweetened goods. Also call atten- works like sixty a week and a day 



tion to pure food laws and no adul- to feed that cussed sugar away. Sugar 



terated honey now sold. These arti- all gone, no honey yet, bee-man's 



cles should leave the reader with worried, you can bet; bees all starv- 



his mouth watering to test the true ing, it's a plum disgrace; he goes to 



deliciousness of honey. These arti- the grocer and "pushes his face." 



cles must be short, not over 300 to Hope lives eternal in the human 



400 words and will be judged with re- breast, he feeds the bees and does 



ference to their value. (ist) Will his best. At last, at last, the worst 



this article attract attention and in- is past; the bees are safe from winter's 



terest the general reader? (2d) Will blast. 'Twas ever darkest before 



the reader who is not acquainted with the dawn; so he chirks right up, puts 



the use of honey, be likely to investi- a super on. With season good and 



gate and use honey? Of course it prices high, he'll sret that auto, bye 



would be an easy matter for us to and bye. 



employ one man to write a series . of But best laid plans of men and 



articles for this purpose, but the com- mice don't always turn out quite so 



mittee wishes to secure the very best nice. One day he hears .an awful 



that the country can produce, and noise, and lays it to them horrid 



takes this method of inviting every- boys. Noise continues without ces- 



body to send in articles of this nature, sation; 'he up and hikes like all crea- 



Not over 400 words, perhaps less, to tion. Runs all the way with tiated 



include the thought. Mail each arti- breath; finds neighbor's horses stung 



cle to W. Z. Hutchinson, Flint, Mich., to death. Neighbor's mad and says 



who will read and mark according to he'll sue. Mr. Bee-man, it's "up to 



merits. The best to be marked 10, you." 



next best 9, and so on. They will Fort Pierce, Fla. 



then be sent to R. L. Taylor who 



will also read and mark the same. We hear lots about bees being light 



He will then_ send them to N. E. in stores, but very little about them 



France who will also mark them. The having too much. — Grant Stanley. 



