December, 1920 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



725 



situation will grow worse aiul worse unless 

 the dealer steps into the breach and co-oper- 

 ates with the beekeper to keep honey at a 

 fair price both for himself and the bee- 

 keeper. 



Local Markets Will Take Care of Crop. 



It is not a question of successful beekeep- 

 ing, but a question of successful marketing. 

 Make a market for tlie beekeeper, and he 

 will produce the honey. Do not throw the 

 entire load of advertising on the beekeeper, 

 but do your share. I have heard of a bottler 

 who said that the beekeepers were robbers 

 because they asked 20c a pound wholesale 

 for honey; yet there is a steady retail de- 

 mand for honey at 45 and 50 cents in pound 

 jars and 35c in 10-pound pails. 



There is no need to ship a pound of honey 

 out of Wisconsin today, because the local 

 market will take it all if it is properly dis- 

 posed of. The same thing is true of nearly 

 every other State in the Union. 



Profitable Markets Will Increase Crops. 



Local advertising is this year selling more 

 than double the amount ever before sold in 

 any one season, and the demand is increas- 

 ing. 



There are a thousand or more splendid 

 locations in Wisconsin where there are no 

 bees, and these places are unoccupied today 

 because there has been no proper stimulus 

 to their being occupied. 



Provide a profitable wholesale market for 



honey, and these places will be filled with 

 bees. Beekeepers will to the end of time con- 

 tinue to sell honey locally; but the best bee- 

 keeping territory is far distant from the 

 biggest markets, and the great bulk of the 

 honey will continue to be distributed by the 

 wholesaler. Just how much any one dealer 

 will handle, will depend upon his vision and 

 ability to look ahead. 

 Dealers Should Co-operate With Producers. 



The two biggest supply manufacturers in 

 the United States have found it profitable 

 to hire specialists to go out among the 

 beekeepers and teach them better methods 

 of beekeeping. Why cannot the dealers do 

 the same with marketing? 



Suppose the producers, the supply manu- 

 facturers, and the dealers were to co-operate 

 in a national research laboratory to test the 

 food value of honey and its uses in food 

 products and trades. There are no scientific 

 records available to show the true value of 

 honey except its sugar content. To compare 

 honey with sugar is wholly unfair. While 

 honey is mostly composed of sugar still there 

 are certain undefined properties in honey 

 that are said to be valuable as a laxative 

 and stimulant. Is it true that honey is a 

 remedy for colds and coughs? I do not know, 

 but why not find out? 



Also, why cannot the dealers co-operate in 

 an organized campaign to advertise honey 

 on a nation-wide scale? 



Madison, Wis. 



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THE new apicultural 

 huilding of the 

 Ontario Agricultur- 

 al College, at 

 (tuelph, Ont., is said to be 

 the tinest building de- 

 voted whoUj' to beekeep- 

 ing in .-Vmerica. It will 

 he' the renter of attrac- 

 tion at the Ontario bee- 

 keepers' convention to be 

 held at Guelph Dec. 1 to 

 3, when it will be for- 

 mally opened. 



The building is 64 

 feet 6 inches by 47 feet 

 3 inches. The basement 

 comprises a honey and 

 Va.\ room with steam 

 licnt. water, gas, electric- 

 ity, a dark room, stock 

 room, bench room, lava- 

 tory, and a bee-cellar. 

 The details of the bee- 

 cellar are 14 feet 2 inches 



by 16 feet, walls 18 inches thick, waterproofed on 

 both sides, two by fours nailed on ends on the in- 

 side with inch boards on the two by fours, two 

 layers of insulating paper with a two-inch cork 

 bn"ard, and finished with '4 -inch Portland cement. 

 There is a faLse ceiling 6 feet by 6 feet from the 

 -round, finished exactly the same as the other walls. 

 The outlet at the top corner is connected with the 



ventilating shaft of the 

 whole building and is 

 controllable. A small inlet 

 in the lower corner near 

 the entrance is also con- 

 trollable. The floor of the 

 cellar is cement. An ele- 

 vator in the corner of 

 the basement runs up to 

 the lecture room and also 

 a bench room 26 feet by 

 16 feet for practical work 

 in assembling supplies. 



Under the front stairs 

 there is a natural fumi- 

 gating room. 



On the main floor in 

 the front are a miscrosco- 

 pic laboratory, small of- 

 fice, and a reading room, 

 together with the general 

 office, the apiarist's office, 

 which includes a fire- 

 proof vault for the keep- 

 ing of records, etc. 

 Tlie top floor contains a lecture room to se.at about 

 2.50, seats arranged in semi-circular rows rising at 

 the ba<k to five feet from the floor level. The lec- 

 ture room will be complete with balopticon, enclosed 

 blinds, sliding blackboard, desk, and observation 

 colonies at the windows for use at class work. 



The building is finished in tapestry brick and will 

 cost approximately when finished $60,000. 



