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ig-noranoe on the part of the public that 

 honey is often an important ingredient in 

 bread. The commissioner was right. 



But then, isn't it to be regretted that 

 honey is not more generally known as a 

 delicious addition to a bread recipe? If it 

 had been, the commissioner's action would 

 not have been almost the national joke that 

 it became. 



The United Honey-producers' Associa- 

 tion 



This is an oi-ganization to " support a 

 nation-wide system of teaching the food 

 value of honey, and its uses in cooking, in 

 the domestic-science departments of our 

 public schools. It was started in Indiana, 

 with B. F. Kindig, deputy inspector of 

 Indiana, president, and George W. Will- 

 iams, of Redkey, Ind., is secretary and 

 treasurer. A vice-president will be chosen 

 later from among the members of each 

 state organization. These collectively will 

 make up the national board of control, to 

 determine the policies to be carried out. 

 The dues are $1.00 a year, plus one cent 

 per colony above the first hundred colonies. 



Mr. Williams, the secretary, is editor and 

 owner of the Booster, a monthly journal 

 devoted exclusively to the interests of hon- 

 ey-producers, but primarily to boost the 

 price and sale of honey. We have already 

 noticed this paper — see pages 431 and 739. 

 The Booster appears to be still boosting, 

 not only to increase the consumption of 

 honey, but to boost the United Honey-pro- 

 ducers of America. 



It is announced that the new organiza- 

 tion will make some of the " old fossils who 

 have been running around in a ring for 25 

 years open their eyes when they wake up 

 some of these mornings and see the United 

 Honey-producers doing the things that they 

 have been dreaming and talk, talk, talking 

 about for a quarter of a century, and doing 

 it in a way that will make them cuss them- 

 selves for not seeing how to do themselves." 



It is indeed time that we were doing 

 something besides talking and passing res- 

 olutions. The publishers of Gleanings 

 have on their own initiative started a vig- 

 orous campaign of advertising honey. We 

 would not dare to say how much we have 

 expended ; but if one knows what it costs to 

 advertise in papers like the Ladies' Home 

 Journal, he will know that the figures run 

 clear up into the thousands. We gladly 

 join with the United Honey-producers of 

 America, and sincerely hope that they will 

 succeed in putting honey in every family in 

 the United States. They are going at it 



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right by getting the food value of honey 

 before the domestic-science departments of 

 our public schools. 



Winter Weather up to January 3. How 

 Bees are Wintering 



We have been going over our government 

 maps, which we have been receiving since 

 last spring, and find some rather interesting- 

 data concerning the weather over the Unit- 

 ed States as a whole. In our locality the 

 winter started in rather early. We should 

 have preferred to have two weeks more of 

 warm weather before packing our bees; but 

 it set in cold along toward the middle of 

 November, and by December 1 it had set in 

 for real winter. 



A comparison of the weather maps for 

 the last two months reveals the fact that it 

 has been rather cold in the southern states, 

 while on Dec. 28 10 degrees Fahr. starts 

 north of Lake Huron, in Canada, continues 

 thru Michigan, thru Chicago, to Springfield, 

 111., thru Kansas, clear down south as far 

 as Roswell, N. M., a little north of El Paso, 

 and running a little north between Phoenix 

 and Flagstaff, Arizona. Then the line turns 

 sharply to the east, going thru Leadville, 

 passing directly north up into Canada. 



On different days it is really surprising 

 to see how cold it has been in some of the 

 southern states. Some of the cold was in a 

 mere pocket covering a very small area in 

 one state. For instance, on Dec. 27 there 

 was a pocket of cold in southwest Utah 

 near Modena. There was another pocket of 

 zero weather around Rapid City. It was 

 down to 30 and even 20 in Texas, and 30 in 

 southern Georgia. On the day following 

 the entire map was changed. The tempera- 

 ture went rapidly upward, but it went down 

 below freezing in northern Florida. 



Private letters from Florida indicate that 

 it has been quite cold in that state, and the 

 maps show it. While it has been rather 

 cold in the southern states, the mercury has 

 not been very low relatively in the northern 

 states. In the lake regions, and directly 

 south, it has seldom been lower than 30 

 degi'ees, with an occasional pocket of about 

 20 degrees. Apparently it has not been 

 very cold in Canada; but occasionally we 

 find some zero weather, and a little below 

 zero; but these low marks are at least 100 

 miles north of Lake Superior. 



There has been a large amount of wind; 

 and when the temperature is not so very 

 low there is apt to be a great deal more air 

 stirring than when it is down to about zero. 

 A temperature down to freezing, with a 

 high wind, especially when it goes down to 



