PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE W T FALCONER MANPG CO 



VOL. VI. 



/Wf\RCH, 1896. 



NO. 3. 



President's Address to Ontario 



Co., N. Y., Bee-Keepers' 



Association. 



Organized Method of Grading and Mar- 

 keting Honey. 



BY W. F. MARKS. 



Fellow Bee- Keepers and Friends : We 

 must take hold aud make our organiz- 

 ation beneficial to our pursuit in every 

 possible way. We should not be con- 

 tented to jog along in old ruts that 

 have ruined nearly every bee-keepers' 

 organization. We must get out and 

 make ours a model and modern organ- 

 ization. We represent a pursuit that 

 according to the last United States 

 Census Report produced 63,894,186 

 pounds of honey in 1889. 



Mr. Benton, of the U. S. Dept. of 

 Agriculture, estimates the present an- 

 nual value of apiarian products of the 

 the United States at S20,000,000. 

 The question is, what part of this vast 

 amount do the bee-keepers get? Do 

 they get full value for their products ? 

 Certainly not, although they are 

 abreast of the times in all improve- 

 ments and place their products before 

 the public in an attractive and modern 

 style. They still market the products 

 of their apiaries in a primitive and 



ruinous manner, without system or 

 method. One of the main objects of 

 our organization and of this meeting 

 should be to devise and perfect some 

 plan for marketing the products of 

 our apiaries by some intelligent and 

 organized method that will increase 

 the demand aud maintain values. 



I believe it would be desirable and 

 practical to place our best honey in 

 the market under the guarantee of the 

 association in such a manner as to cre- 

 ate a demand for it from cash buyers. 

 Under any organized system of trade 

 it is first necessary to establish some 

 official supervision. As one step to- 

 ward such a system, and for the sake 

 of bringing this subject fully before 

 the meeting, in hopes that some plan 

 will be adopted, I will submit a plan 

 for your consideration. 



I would have the association adopt 

 an attractive Stamp and elect a Honey 

 Impector. He would be a disinterest- 

 ed party, and acting in an official ca- 

 pacity it will be his duty when called 

 upon to inspect and if satisfactory at- 

 tach the stamps of the association to 

 the case of honey in such a manner 

 that the case can not be opened with- 

 out breaking the stamps. The stamp 

 should have printed upon it the name 



