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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



December, 1S21 



brought to their attention in this way. This 

 beekeeper is building up a trade iu honey 

 that should be of great value to him in the 

 future. He did not cease his effort when 

 his own crop was sold, but he has sold the 

 crop of some of his neighbors, thus contrib- 

 uting to the general good of the beekeeping 

 industry. 



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THE Bureau of Markets and Crop Esti- 

 mates, U. S. Department of Agriculture, is 

 constantly improv- 



Government 



Market Reports 



on Honey. 



ing its service to 

 beekeepers in in- 

 formation on the 

 honey markets. In 

 its semi-monthly reports, which are sent free 

 to beekeepers and others, are given not only 

 shipping point information and telegraphic 

 reports from important markets, as pub- 

 lished on the market page in this journal, 

 but additional information on imports and 

 exports of honey and beeswax are also given 

 out from time to time. These semi-monthly 

 reports can be had for the asking by writ- 

 ing to the Bureau of Markets and Crop Es- 

 timates, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C, asking for the semi- 

 monthly report on honey. 



OUE market reporters, who have so faith- 

 fully reported the crop and market condi- 

 tions for their re- 

 __ What They Have spective localities 

 ^=^^ Done For Us. each month for 



our market page, 

 certainly deserve a vote of thanks from our 

 readers for the service they have rendered 

 beekeepers during this season when this 

 kind of service was so badly needed. No 

 one can tell what would have happened to 

 the honey market, if the information on 

 crop and market conditions gathered and 

 published by the bee journals and the U. S. 

 Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates had 

 been withheld. In some regions a bumper 

 crop was harvested this year following a 

 similar bumper crop harvested last year, 

 much of which was still in the hands of the 

 producers. This condition would have 

 caused panicky selling in these localities, if 

 the true conditions existing thruout the 

 country ha^ not been known early in the 

 season. 



One correspondent complains that the pub- 

 lication of the crop and market conditions 

 for his locality, where the crop was light 

 this season, caused his market to be flooded 

 with honey shipped in from other places at 

 prices below that which he could have ob- 

 tained if the foreign honey had not appear- 

 ed in his market. This man failed to con- 

 sider how much cheaper this same honey 

 from outside sources would have been 

 dumped upon his market, if the honey mar- 

 ket had not been steadied last summer by 



the publication of the true condition of the 

 crop and the markets in all important cen- 

 ters. 



GEO. H. EEA, who during the past few 



years has been doing beekeeping extension 



work in the State 



Extension Work 



in Beekeeping 



in New York. 



of New York un- 

 der a co-operative 

 arrangement b e - 

 tween the Bureau 

 of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture and the New York State College of 

 Agriculture, is leaving to take up similar 

 work in Pennsylvania. Few people fully 

 realize the far-reaching effects of vigorous 

 extension work, such as has been carried on 

 in New York during the past several years, 

 and the betterment of beekeeping that must 

 result from this kind of work. Within the 

 past year Mr. Rea held 55 demonstrations 

 with an attendance of nearly 1000 beekeep- 

 ers, gave 65 lectures with an attendance of 

 about 2500, and attended 36 conventions 

 with an attendance of 1603. This makes a 

 total of 156 meetings, with a total attend- 

 ance of 5170 beekeepers. He also visited 

 66 apiaries to give personal assistance. In 

 addition to this, the correspondence on bee- 

 keeping was over 1000 letters. 



Since Mr. Rea went to New York the 

 number of associations (county and region- 

 al) has been increased to 37, with a mem- 

 bership of 1500. During the season of 1921 

 the associations co-operated in the purchase 

 of supplies amounting to about $20,000, 

 which means a considerable saving in pur- 

 chase price and a reduction in shipping ex- 

 penses. Many of the new organizations have 

 affiliated with the State Association. 



THE energy with which beekeepers have 

 taken up the problem of creating new out- 

 lets in disposing of 

 The Silver their crop of honey 



Lining Grows this season is having 

 Brighter. its effect, and in 



some places the 

 stocks of honey are being cleaned up nicely 

 in spite of the general depressed condition 

 of business. 



As pointed out editorially last month, the 

 most important feature of the intense sell- 

 ing campaign put on by beekeepers thruout 

 the country this season is, after all, a much 

 greater thing than the disposal of this sea- 

 son's crop and that which was held over 

 from last year, important as this is. The 

 rewards for this extra effort will come in 

 the future, and in his effort toward creating 

 new outlets for honey the beekeeper should 

 think iu terms of building for the future. 

 Every pound of honey that is sold to some 

 one who has not been a user of honey should 

 call for more than a pound next year as well 

 as for many years to come when, no doubt, 



