THE BEE-KEEPERS* REVIEW 65 



Should Labels Show Where Honey is Produced? 



A Cleveland grocer suggests that there should be a national law 

 wkich would require that all honey should be labeled so as to show 

 the state it was produced in. To me this seems like a good sug- 

 gestion. Honey produced in different states has a flavor peculiar 

 to that state. One who has become accustomed to eating the 

 honey of a particular flavor is apt to be disappointed if he gets some 

 that has a different flavor, even though the latter may be of an 

 excellent quality and grade. If all honey was labeled to show in 

 what state it was produced, it would allow the bee-keepers of any 

 state to build up a demand for their particular flavor, and would 

 get dififerent states to competing with each other in regard to 

 quality. Of course there are arguments on the other side. 



Clover One Year Old. 



Geo. Shiber, Randolph, N. Y.. writes me as follows 

 ■'In the December Review, page ii-i-t, it strikes me you are 

 in error. You speak of the fact that next year will be a good time 

 to prove whether clover yields the first year, etc. My experience 

 has been, and I believe it has been so held by many writers, that 

 by clover yielding the first year means plants that grow from seed 

 that year." 



Now friend Shiber, I haven't understood it that way, and now 

 is a good time to get it settled. Let us ask the rest of the sub- 

 scribers. How many understand the matter the same as Friend 

 Shiber? My understanding is that we could not very well look for 

 honey from baby clover plants the year they were born, but that 

 the next year, or when they were one year old they would yield, 

 but some writers have given me the impression that they could 

 not be depended on until the second year. 



Those Picture Grading Rules. 



Since the January issue was mailed, one extensive buyer of 

 honey wrote me that I was making a big error in the illustrations 

 shown. He writes that I should show the "high ideals." He says 

 that as a rule bee-keepers have low grades of honey, and according 

 to my illustration will understand that number two is a fancy 

 grade. 



A subscriber, on the other hand, writes that the pictures will 

 help him in grading his honey, and then goes on to ask regarding 

 the siac and zvcight of sections according to the difl'erent grades. 

 He states that he has been in the habit of grading all his 12-ounce 

 sections by themselves, the 12y2 by themselves, and so on up for 

 everv half ounce. 



