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Dewey. Knowing in 



advance the dates the 



fair was to be held I 



obtained consent from 



my employers to have 



my vacation at this 



time, and, assisted by 



my wife, we prepared 



1000 lbs. of our crop 



for this exhibit. Most 



of my honey is put up 



in the bulk as recom- 

 mended by Mr. Louis 



Scholl; and I wish to 



say, in thanks to Mr. 



Scholl, that putting up 



bulk honey has always 

 been a success with me. 

 Even in Northern 

 Wisconsin, where I 

 began the practice, I 

 always marketed my 

 No. 2 section honey 

 this way, obtaining the 

 same price as received 

 for No. 1 section hon- 

 ey; but in Oklahoma 

 conditions are more 



favorable for putting honey on the market 

 in bulk. Putting up honey in glass con- 

 tainers in an attractive shape is no piker's 

 job, and no one should attempt it without 

 having proper utensils for doing the work. 

 The managers of the fair allowed me to 

 sell honey the last afternoon of the fair. 



1000 pounds of bulk comb honey exhibited by M. H. Hill at the Wash- 

 insrton County (Okla.) Fair. Mr. Hill made his exhibit educational in that 

 ho showed every stage in honey production — the full combs in observatory 

 hives of bees, uncapping, extracting, clarifying, and bottling. 



My exhibit sold in a few hours, and the 

 advertising this exhibit gave me well repaid 

 me for the effort. The sales at this one fair, 

 and the advertising it gave me, made it 

 possible for me to own a five-passenger 

 Overland touring-car. 

 Dewey, Okla. 



HOW THE BEE HELPS FEED THE WORLD 



BT B. KEEP 



The January number of the Geographic 

 Magazine is devoted almost entirely to a 

 most interesting and liberally illustrated ar- 

 ticle entitled "How the World is Fed: " It 

 is not possible in a limited space to review 

 this exceedingly instructive article in detail, 

 but as beekeepers we are specially interested 

 in the following, which is copied in full: 



"The Industrious Bee." 

 Nowhere else in the world is the majesty 

 of small things more strikingly revealed 

 than in the story of the production of honey 

 in the United States. That great decennial 

 interrogation-mark which marches every ten 

 years thru the homes of the American peo- 

 ple, and asks them a thousand and one ques- 

 tions, has ascertained for us that the bees of 

 the country annually produce twenty-seven 

 thousand tons of honey. That means fifty- 

 four million pounds! Truly the busy little 

 bee must improve each shining hour to give 

 to the American people tifty-four million 

 pounds of honey, in addition to providing 



for its own needs. The number of trips from 

 hive to tlower, and from flower to hive, with 

 their tiny loads of honey-making materials 

 that the bees must have taken to bring us 

 these fifty-four million pounds of honey de- 

 fies estimate; but they afford us an inspir- 

 ing lesson of what the faithful doing of 

 small things may accomplish. ' ' 



Note the sentiment of the closing lines. 



When the time shall arrive that beekeep- 

 ing is the business of specialists on a large 

 scale, these figures will begin to appear 

 small by comparison. 



What is really to be desired is not more 

 beekeepers but better beekeepers, as has 

 been so often said; and the only hope seems 

 to be in keeping bees on a larger scale by 

 most advanced methods. 



New Jersey. 



[The census figures are very conservative. 

 Eeliable estimates show that the total 

 amount of honey produced — including both 

 comb and extracted — is not far from 200 

 million pounds. — Ed.] 



