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(? L K A N r N G S IN BE K C U L T U U K 



Ski'I'kmi'.ior, ] 02l! 



MANY producers si'ciii to lliiiik that tlioir 

 responsibility ceases wlieii they liave sold 

 their eroj) to a dealer 

 Helping the and received the cash 

 Grocer In payment for the 



Sell Honey, lioney. It is true that 

 the responsibility for 

 re-selling is shifted to the dealer when he 

 buys the honej', but the producer can not 

 afford to lose interest in the ultimate sale 

 to the consumer just because he has been 

 able to induce a dealer to buy his honey 

 and turn over the cash for it. It should be 

 remembered that the honey is not really 

 sold until the consumer buys it. 



Those who supply their local grocers with 

 lioney in case lots should help the dealer 

 dispose of it so that he will be ready to 

 buy more Avhen his stock runs low. This can 

 be done by display advertisements in the 

 local papers, by window displays and by 

 seeing that the honey is so conspicuously 

 located in the store that it will be seen. 

 The retail grocer is not necessarily a sales- 

 man. He hands over the counter what the 

 people ask for. It is not his business to cre- 

 ate a demand for honey any more than for 

 any one of the many other items in his store. 

 The grocer is able to distribute the bee- 

 keej^er's honey to consumers cheaper than 

 anybody else can do it but he should not be 

 expected to assume the responsibility of cre- 

 ating a greater demand for honey. 



THE Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Wooster, Ohio, has published a bulletin (No. 

 , 357) on the dis- 

 Bees Help in Con- s e m i n a tion of 



trol of Fireblight. fireblight, writ- 



ten by H. A. Gos- 

 sard and E. C. Walton, which is of interest 

 to beekeepers. The authors have made an 

 exhaustive study to determine to what ex- 

 tent honey bees may be carriers of fireblight, 

 and while they found that they are capable 

 of carrying the blight just as many other 

 agencies do, their studies have revealed that 

 honeybees also play an important part in the 

 control of this disease by promptly pollinat- 

 ing the blossoms, thus carrying them cpiickly 

 past the period of susceptibility to blight. 



The following extract from the bulletin 

 certainly speaks well for the honeybee: 



There would apparently be some disastrous 

 l)light years if no lioney bees were in existence, 

 and from our researches (p. 108) we believe it is 

 fair to infer that in the early part of the bloom- 

 ing season bees do not scatter mucli blight, but by 

 promptly pollinating the blossoms as fast as the 

 stigmas rii)ei\, hurry such fruit past the period of 

 susceptibility to bliglit, so that in about three 

 days after jjollination, such blossoms or fruits 

 will scarcely blight at all. This explains why it 

 is that orchard ists who also keep nunierous stands 

 of bees have full crops of fruit, even when blos- 

 som blight is very l)ad. While it seems to be true 

 that b(!es are among the most effective dissemina- 

 tors of blossom-blight toward the end of the blos- 

 soming period, this nuty in large measure he con- 

 doned or in some cases regarded as advantageous, 

 since their work in killing the blossoms will re- 

 duce the work of thinning, an operation that m.iy 

 bo necessary if too many fruits hav(> set. 



IN a letter of appreciation (jf tke response 

 of beekeepers in raising a fund for tlie 



Miller Me- 



Mrs. Miller Expresses 



Appreciation of Miller 



Memorial Library Fund. 



morial Li- 

 brary Mrs. 

 Miller adds 

 the follow- 

 ing paragraph, which the Editor lias aKked 

 permission to publish: 



We are very_much gratified over the report of 

 " ~~ " The beekeepers have done 



the Memorial Fund, 

 so well. 



Although the one who made this the most beau- 

 tiful spot on earth for us has gone, we are still 

 living here, trying to do the things we think he 

 would want done. With kindest regards from Miss 

 Wilson and myself, Very sincerely yours, 



Mrs. C. C, Miller. 



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THE committee in charge of the Miller Me 

 morial Fund has decided to locate the Me 



morial Li 



The Miller Memorial 



Library to be Located in 



Wisconsin University. 



brarv a t 

 t h e' Uni- 

 versity of 

 W i s con 

 sin. Among the otlier institutions considered 

 by tlie committee were Cornell University 

 and the Iowa Agricultural College, but the 

 committee tlnally voted unanimously to lo- 

 cate the memorial at the University of Wis- 

 consin. 



In many respects this is an ideal loca- 

 tion for this library. H. F. Wilson, Pro- 

 fessor of Beekeeping at the university, who 

 b}^ tlie way is also a practical honey pro- 

 ducer, has been interested for some time in 

 a beekeeping library for the university. 

 Such a library being one of his hobbies, his 

 enthusiasm as well as tlie tliought he has al- 

 ready put into the library idea will now be 

 of great value to the Miller Memorial Li- 

 brary. Being on the ground and in close 

 touch with its affairs, lie will naturally put 

 into this his very best effort, and as long 

 as he is connected with the University, bee- 

 keepers may rest assured that the Miller 

 Memorial Library will be Avell cared for. 



The University of Wisconsin is a rapidly 

 growing institution in a state whose citizens 

 are progressive and who take great pride in 

 their educational institutions. Being located 

 at Madison, Wis., this library of beekeep- 

 ing will be in the midst of the great white 

 clover region of the United States and Can- 

 ada, as Avell as near the center of population 

 in the United States. Madison is only about 

 70 miles from Marengo, 111., where Doctor 

 Miller worked out so many of tlie beekeep- 

 ers' problems. It at least seems titting that 

 tliis memorial is to be located so near the 

 homo of tlie man whose memory it is to per- 

 petuate. 



The funds tliat have been collected, as 

 well as any additional contributions tliat 

 may be made, are to be turned over to the 

 University to be invested, only the income 

 from the investment to be used for the 

 building u]) and maintenance of the library. 

 Tlie Uni \'(M'si1 \', W(> nmlerstand, will fui'nisli 



