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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



beekeepers, who have not one iota 

 of interest in their welfare other 

 than how they can make the most 

 out of them, and these are those 

 against whose designs we would 

 protect our brother beekeepers. 

 Just so long as the beekeepers will 

 support aud sustain us in our work, 

 we shall speak the truth as we see 

 it fearlessly and unhesitating!}' and 

 we do not need that any person or 

 cooperative association urge us to 

 defend the rights of those in whose 

 interest we are working. We only 

 ask that justice and right prevail, 

 and if we cannot effect these needed 

 reforms we may at least cry out 

 against injustice wherever and 

 whenever we see it. 



The beekeepers must build up 

 their own markets and sell their 

 own honey. This is not by any 

 means a hard task to accomplish and 

 when it is done the profits which 

 are now consumed by the non-pro- 

 ducing middle-men may be divided 

 between the producers and consum- 

 ers, giving the former a better price 

 for the honey and reducing the price 

 to the consumers so that honey no 

 longer will be a luxury but a staple 

 article of commerce more nearly 

 equal in price with pure cane sugar, 

 and syrups. More than this, the 

 curse of adulteration could then be 

 more successfully coped with and 

 the demand for honey largely in- 

 creased. 



This is no idle talk, and we feel 

 assured that we speak the senti- 

 ments not of a few chronic grum- 

 blers^ but of a large number of our 

 most prominent apiarists and those 

 who have the interest of apiculture 



at heart. If our sentiments are not 

 thoroughly grounded we are open 

 to conviction, but so long as we feel 

 that we are right we mean to ex- 

 press our opinions candidly and yet 

 kindly, hoping they may tend to 

 improve the condition of our brother 

 beekeepers. Mr. D. A. Jones of 

 Beeton, Ont., has shown American 

 beekeepers what one enterprising 

 person can do in the way of creat- 

 ing a honey market, and obtain the 

 best price for his honey. He reaps 

 the full benefit of his season's work, 

 and others following in his foot- 

 steps have produced results which 

 astonish the world in the shape of 

 exhibitions of honey. Now if the 

 beekeepers of the United States 

 once commence right and " stick to 

 it," apiculture will receive such an 

 impetus as it never yet has seen. 

 Let us go to work and see what we 

 can do. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Editor of American Apiculturist : 

 Dear Sir, 



At beginning of the season the 

 demand for comb honey was rather 

 dull, owing undoubtedly to the 

 warm weather. But since that 

 time the demand has increased 

 largely for all grades ; our sales 

 for last week were enormous, and 

 amounted to 16,500 pounds, and 

 only a few jobbing sales at that, 

 the largest portion sold in five or 

 ten crate lots. All the comb honey 

 we received this season from differ- 

 ent sections of our state arrived 

 in first class order, not one crate 

 in a broken or leaky condition ; cer- 

 tainly it depends mostly how it is 

 stored awa}' in cars or canal boats . 



