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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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FROM THE FIELD OF EXPERIENCE 



Plans are now being made to publish the 

 Legal Aid Booklet and furnish it at cost to 

 members of the American Honey Producers' 

 League. 



Nothing important this year in the way 

 of a national advertising campaign will be 

 undertaken, as there are not sufficient funds 

 available to make any progress in this con- 

 nection. 



Our most important effort at this time will 

 be to establish contact with the individual 

 members of the League through a monthly 

 bulletin to be either mimeographed or print- 

 ed. We do not have the names of all the 

 members of the League and would appreci- 

 ate having any beekeeper, who is now a 

 member, write to the secretary, Dr. S. B. 

 Fraeker, State Capitol Annex, Madison, Wis- 

 consin. If you have not paid your dues for 

 1922, do so at once and also send in your 

 dues for 1923. 



The League has established one important 

 piece of service which has been of consider- 

 able value to a number of beekeepers. This 

 service is the warning sign, which has helped 

 to prevent losses in out-apiaries wherever 

 posted. Some of our beekeepers report that 

 they have always had difficulty with thieves 

 until they put up these signs. Tn practically 

 every case these signs had the effect of stop- 

 ping the trouble. As these signs cost onlv 

 2.5c each, it will pay each beekeeper who is 

 a member of the League to provide himself 

 with one or more signs for his outyards. 

 These can be secured by writing to the secre- 

 tary. 



The Schedule Committee of the League has 

 again arranged a series of meetings, includ- 

 ing the group of the northenstern states, the 

 central western states and the Pacific north- 

 west. In this connection our program in- 

 cludes an organized effort to secure better 

 co-operation among beekeepers and beekeep- 

 ing organizations. In order to accomplish 

 this, it is necessarv to have the moral and 

 financial support of all beekeeping organiza- 

 tions in the United States. In fact, nothing 

 can be done without the beekeeper. Let 

 everv beekeeper put his shoulder to the 

 wheel and help to make this co-operative 

 effort successful. 



The Fordney McCumber Tariff Bill was 

 signed by the President on September 21, 

 and from that time on all honey coming into 

 the United States from foreign countries 

 will be taved an import duty of 3c per 

 pound. This replaces the former duty of 

 10c T)er gallon, which has been in effect 

 since' the 1913 tariff bill. 



Now that the new tariff on honey has been 

 established, it should be known among bee- 

 keeners that the American ITonev Produc- 

 ers' League is greatly responsible for this 

 tariff. There is a question in the minds of 

 some beekeepers as to whether or not this 

 tariff is desirable; but, regardless of whether 



we are right or wrong, the power which a 

 united beekeeping organization may have 

 in national affairs should be pointed out to 

 our beekeepers. 



Every beekeeper must put his shoulder to 

 the wheel to make this national organization 

 successful. Nothing can be done without the 

 beekeeper, and the League solicits your sup- 

 port. H. F. Wilson. 



Madison, Wisconsin. 



HONEY- SELLING HINT 



How to Impress upon Physicians the Food Value 

 of Honey 



S'ome time ago I ordered some of the Dr. 

 Miller booklets on the food value of honey, 

 and as I was giving them out the idea 

 struck me that I should give each doctor I 

 knew a copy of it. So I have been giving 

 them out to the doctors I know, and some 

 of them have asked for more to give out 

 to their friends. I believe it is safe to 

 say that I have sold 30 pounds of honey 

 for each of these booklets given the doctors. 

 When we give a doctor one of these papers, 

 and he sees it is by Dr. Miller he reads it; 

 while, if some honey producer got it up, he 

 would pitch it into the waste basket. 



Almost every month we see something in 

 the bee journals about having healthier 

 and happier children, by feeding them less 

 sugar and more honey. How far do these 

 articles go toward advertising honey? The 

 beekeeper reads it, lays the journal up and 

 forgets about it. If we can get a copy of 

 this booklet into the hands of all faniilv 

 physicians and impress them with the food 

 A^alue of honey, the doctors will prescribe 

 feeding honey to the children and the moth- 

 ers will see that they get it. 



It would be very easy to get these book- 

 lets distributed to everv doctor in the U. S., 

 if each beekeeper would send out a few to 

 every doctor in his community. Beekeepers' 

 associations could get a medical directorv 

 and use that for a mailing list. I also be- 

 lieve we should put some of these booklets 

 in each school so the teacher mav teach the 

 children the value of honev. If we can get 

 half a dozen of these booklets to each (\no- 

 tor and teacher, we will note a big differ- 

 ence in the sale of honev. J. W. Powell. 



Mesilla Park, N. M. 



TMedical journals have shown an interest 

 in honey in dietetics for some time, but the 

 subject has not developed to any great ex- 

 tent. Eeeently, however, several articles of 

 this nature have appeared in the medical 

 journals, and investigators are now turn- 

 ing their attention to this subject. If 

 the American people must first take honey 

 as a medicine to find out how good it is as 

 a food, let us hope that the doctors will 

 prescribe it freely.- — Editor.] 



