THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 7 



"I consider this absolutely essential, or some of the most im- 

 portant articles might be overlooked." 



Let us hear from the other members on this topic. — E. B. T. 



Each American Ate 87 lbs. of Sugar in 1912, 



The following clipping was taken from one of our daily papers 

 and is interesting to bee-keepers from the fact that it shows to what 

 enormous quantities the consumption of sugar has attained. Is it 

 not possible for the bee-keepers to duplicate some of this consump- 

 tion with our fine qualities of honey? Certainly here's a field worth 

 cultivating : 



WASHINGTON, December 16.— Each person in the United States this year 

 will have used about 87 pounds of sugar, the per capita consumption of this 

 article having increased from 80 pounds in 1910, 59 pounds in 1900, and 39.5 in 

 1880, say the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. 



The total sugar consvmiption this year will exceed 8,000,000,000 pounds 

 against 4,500,000,000 in 1910. 



The cost this year is $400,000,000, $1,000,000 a day. 



One- fourth of this sugar came from the United States proper; another fourth 

 from Hawaii and Porto Rico, the remainder from foreign countries, chiefly Cuba. 



The large increase this year in the production of beet sugar in this country is 

 noted. 1,400,000,000 pounds having been raised against 1,000,000,000 pounds in 

 1910 and less than half that amount in 1905. 



What President Snyder, of Michigan Agricultural College Told the 

 Michigan Bee-Keepers. 



President Snyder, of the M. A. C, gave us a fine talk at our 

 state meet in Lansing last month. Of the several subjects broached 

 I will mention one that seemed to me as being to the point. It was 

 his stand on the high cost of living. He contends that the product 

 of the soil, including honey, will never be cheap again, for, sa3^s he, 

 "skilled labor commands high wages and it has come to pass that 

 all rural products including honey require skilled labor." I quote 

 from memory. 



Take the production of honey. Many of us can remember back, 

 when the seasons were better than now, we had no diseases among 

 our bees to require extra skill to handle. It was not much of a 

 "trick" to produce a crop of honey those days. At the present time 

 none but the "skilled" can hope to succeed, for we are "up against" 

 hard winters, poor seasons, several brood diseases, so much so that 

 those who do not thoroughly post themselves can not hope to "win 

 out." 



Let us make it a special point during the season of 1913 to help 

 those bee-keepers already in the business to produce a "skilled" 

 product, a product so good in quality that there will be no question 



