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the United States. The purpose of the meeting was to con- 

 sider plans whereby the country's honey suppUes could be 

 increased. At that date the country was facing a forecasted 

 10 per cent, sugar shortage. It was not proposed to produce 

 honey as a sugar substitute but to supplement the supply. 

 Furthermore, it was realized that honey was to be exported 

 freely for use in foreign countries. At that time the use to 

 which it was being placed was not definitely known, but it was 

 presumed to be used as a trench food. Since then the writer 

 has found out, in conference with an officer in the Canadian 

 army, that honey has served a good purpose instead of sugar 

 in the hospitals. Realizing a general national and foreign 

 need of honey, the conference at Washington drew up twelve 

 recommendations which were presented to the secretary of 

 agriculture and to the beekeepers of the country. Briefly, it 

 was recommended: — 



1. To urge honey producers to increase their production, 

 giving preference to extracted honey in order that the total 

 supply might be the more greatly increased. 



2. To urge the inspectors of apiaries to emphasize educa- 

 tional work, even to take precedence over the inspection of 

 individual colonies, in order that the message of greater pro- 

 duction might be carried to more beekeepers. 



3. To urge the formation and co-operation of county and 

 local associations, and, in areas of large production, to urge 

 co-operative buying and selling associations. 



4. To urge the co-operation of bee journals and the agri- 

 cultural press. 



5. To urge the teachers of beekeeping and extension workers 

 to increase their activities and to co-operate with the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture in instructing beekeepers for increased 

 production. 



6. To urge the railroads to co-operate in the delivery of bee- 

 keepers' necessities. A committee was selected to co-operate 

 with government agencies. 



7. To urge the manufacturers of beekeepers' supplies to meet 

 the demands of the beekeepers and handle their orders promptly. 



8. An appeal was also made to the jobbers of beekeepers' 

 supplies to anticipate the needs of their customers. 



