JANUARY 15, 1916 



were baying queens co-operatively thru the 

 associatiun. 



Dr. E, F. Phillips, F. W. L. Sladen, and 

 Prof. L. Caesar delivered addresses. F. W. 

 Krouse, of Guelph, was elected president, 

 and James Armstrong, of Selkirk, and W. 

 W. Webster, of Little Britain, first and 

 second vice-president, respectively. Morley 

 Pettit continues as secretary-treasurer. 



An attempt will be made to increase the 



fine against spraying trees during fruit- 

 bloom from $25 to $100. The provincial 

 apiarist has been requested to conduct ex- 

 perimentvS to find the effect on bees of 

 sweetened poisons for the destruction of 

 grasshoppers and field-pests. The Dominion 

 Government will be petitioned to take meas- 

 ures to prevent the importation of bees 

 from diseased districts. 

 Guelph, Ont. 



PROBLEMS OF MARKETING GET ATTENTION OF INDIANA BEE- 

 KEEPERS 



How to sell honey was the chief topic of 

 discussison at the convention of the Indiana 

 State Beekeepers' Association held at In- 

 dianapolis December 10 and 11. Wallace 

 Buchanan, representing the jiostmaster of 

 Indianapolis, talked on " Honey by Parcels 

 Post." The Farm to Table movement, he 

 said, is gromng, and its success is all a 

 matter of proper packing. 



" Instead of packing honey 24 sections to 

 the case, why not pack it 3 or 6, or just 

 the way the average family would want it? 

 Comb-honey cartons can be made to hold 

 tlu'ee sections at 2 cents each carton, or for 

 six sections at 3 cents for each carton. The 

 total cost of container and postage shows 

 that it pays to ship one oound by mail. 



" If it pays a man in Boston to ship his 

 cod and mackerel all over the United States 

 by mail ; if it pays in Los Angeles to ship 

 nut kernels all over the United States, why 

 can't the beekeepers market honey by the 

 same plan? Simply advertise, and make 

 the buyers know where it can be obtained." 



George W. Williams, secretary of the 

 association, read a paper. " One Promising 

 Outlet for Dark Honey." He said, among 

 other things, " The karo people are pushing 

 their product, and the honey people are not. 

 You will see karo attractively displayed on 

 half a million shelves and its posters on ten 

 thousand billboards. In the meantime honey 

 is not seen on the shelves, no pictures ap- 

 pear in the windows, no publicity in the 

 papers, and the beekeeper sits tight, doing 

 nothing and keeping eloquently silent. 



"The beekeepers' associations should take 

 steps to have the value of honey as a stajjle 

 food, and especially the value of tlie darker 

 grades in cooking, taught in the domestic 

 science departments of the public schools.'' 



Miss Emma Piel told how she met outside 

 competition. "I believed that to put my 

 honey in glasses was the best advertising I 

 could do. I heard compliments of all kinds 

 for my honey. People stopped me on the 

 street, and said they had found my honey 

 fine. I had no trouble in selling my honey 

 this year in larger quantities." 



B. F. Kindig believes in saying things 

 right out. " The distribution of Indiana 

 lioney is extremely poor. We find one mar- 

 ket whei"e you can sell honey if you only 

 mention it, and others where you can hard- 

 ly give it away. There is a tendency on the 

 part of beekeepei-s to stampede the large 

 markets. Too many think they must sell 

 the honey as soon as they get it off the 

 hives. Their surplus might be moved with 

 a very little advertising. There is a poor 

 quality of salesmanship among the beekeep- 

 ers of this state." 



The opening address was given by Mason 

 J. Niblack, president of the Association. 

 He read a paper by C. P. Dadant on out- 

 apiaries. Miss Emma Baylor, of the state 

 department of public instruction, asked the 

 beekeepers to furnish free literature on the 

 food value of honey for distribution to the 

 students of the domestic-science depart- 

 ments thruout the state. Prof. D. A. Roth- 

 rock read a paper on aster honey. 



FEEDING DRY SUGAR 



BY W. J. SHEPPARD 



I have noticed that very little reference 

 has been made in the bee .iournals dniing 

 the last few years to feeding with moist 

 sugar, or " dry-sugar feeding," as it used to 

 be called. I conclude, therefore, that il 

 must have fallen into disuse somewhat, 



The past season here was a very poor 

 one. After an unusually fine, dry, and 

 warm Februarj-, March, and April, the three 

 succeeding montlis turned wet with low 

 temperatui'es prevailing all through. Con- 

 sequently very little nectar was available) 



