418 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



Would you like to give one of your bee-keeping friends a Christmas 

 present that would remind him of you twelve times during the season of 

 1914? If so, how appropriate is the Review for this present. 



Members and dealers who buy honey to supply their customers can- 

 not do better than patronize those producers listing honey for sale on 

 another page of the Review. 



Dealers who can use Alfalfa honey, either comb or extracted, can 

 secure attractive prices by writing those members listed under the head 

 of "Alfalfa Honey For Sale," on another page. 



Why not speak to that neighbor bee-keeper of yours who does not 

 now enjoy the visit of the Review each month and get his dollar and 

 have it readv to send in with your renewal? You can offer him as an 

 inducement the last half of 1913 and all of 1914 for a dollar. How could 

 he use a dollar to better advantage? 



There seems to be an opportune time for everything, and friend 

 Vollmer has made the suggestion of "Eat More Honey" instead of "Keep 

 More Bees" at an opportune time. It is not the policy of the Review to 

 make more bee-keepers, but to make better bee-keepers of those already 

 in the business by encouraging them to produce more and betler hotiey. 

 thus putting bee-keeping upon a higher plane than heretofore. H" there is 

 a good unoccupied location near you, I would say, occupy it by placing 

 an out-yard there, and by so doing produce two pounds of good honey 

 where one was produced before. 



Comb vs. Extracted Honey. 



Taking climate and seasonal conditions into account there is 

 hardly a western location that is not better adapted to the produc- 

 tion of extracted than comb honey. Many beemen are producing 

 comb honey who should be raising extracted honey if these condi- 

 tions were the determining factors. But the other factors change 

 the whole proposition. And the other factors are solely those of 

 marketing. Comb honev sells readily, while extracted honey is a 

 drug on the market as far as large shipments are concerned. It 

 must not be inferred that there is no sale for extracted honey, but 

 when six cents is all that can l)c had for extracted honey of good 

 quality, this is not much encouragement for its production, espe- 

 cially when 10 to 13 cents can be had for comb honey. The market- 

 ing problem is the big one for the carload shipping west. W. F. 



