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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



November, 1922 



FROM THE FIELD OF EXPERIENCE 



All beekeepers will do well to remember 

 this, another season, and prepare for it. 



I have 15 colonies of bees myself, and 

 had a surplus of nearly 1,000 pounds of hon- 

 ey to market. I sold all this honey and 

 have bought 2,400 pounds from other bee- 

 keepers, and can sell a lot more if I can get 

 the lioney packed right and the grade of 

 honey I need. 



I simply go out, make a canvass of the 

 consumers and sell my honey at retail prices. 

 Where you have many tons for sale, you will 

 not be able to sell it all in this manner; but 

 you can go to your retail merchant and make 

 arrangements with him, then canvass his 

 trade and deliver through him, and he will 

 always buy two to three and four times as 

 much honey as you sell to his customers 

 through him. 



I am figuring with a large honey pro- 

 ducer on handling his whole crop another 



consumer through the retail merchant. That 

 concern is one of the largest manufacturers 

 of soap specialties in the world, and that 

 kind of advertising paid them, and paid 

 them well. I want to say that I live in a 

 section sparsely settled compared with most 

 sections of our country, yet I can sell many 

 times as much honey as I have sold each 

 season, and not glut my local market. 

 Cameron, N. C. Luther A. Fink. 



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MAKING AN INDUSTRY 



What the Extension Division of the Louisiana State 

 University is Doing for Beekeeping 



Beekeeping is fast becoming one of the 

 important industries of the state, this fact 

 being forcefully brought out at the Ninth 

 Annual Boys' and Girls' Short Course, which 



More than 400 boys received instmotion in bee culture during the boys' and girls' short course in 

 August, at the Louisiana State University.. 



season, and the manner in which I mean to 

 dispose of it is by organizing a crew of 

 canvassers and working through the retail 

 merchant. I can easily get enough over 

 market price to pay the canvassers and all 

 expenses, and still sell all the honey I want 

 to sell. Why not advertise and sell our 

 honey in this way? Any large producer can 

 handle his crop in this manner, and then a 

 few of them can get together and pool, and 

 do still better. There is positively no 

 need of dumping your honey on a glutted 

 market, for the people want good table 

 honey if you will get it before them, and it 

 is no great problem to get it before tliem. 

 I worked for a large specialty manufac- 

 turing concern for many years, and we did 

 most of our advertising by canvassing the 



was held at the Louisiana State University 

 during the first week of August, when more 

 than 400 club boys received daily instruc- 

 tions in bee management from E. C. Davis, 

 the extension bee specialist. 



Not only did Mr. Davis lecture on the 

 main topic relative to bee culture, but he 

 gave actual demonstrations, and had the 

 club members assist him. 



"I have learned more about bees in one 

 day than I ever knew before," said one 

 boy, "although my father has kept bees all 

 of his life." 



During the first day of the short course 

 a monster parade was held. There was a 

 decorated float representing each phase of 

 club work, and one of the most interesting 

 was the bee float. 



