Jan. 12, 1899. 



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The rniinites of the previous meetiiif^-s. of the proceed- 

 ing's of the Executive Committee, and of the joint commit- 

 tee of the State Association and the Denver Bee-Keepers" 

 Association on marketin;,'-, were then read by the Secretary, 

 and approved. 



Mr. C. B. Elliott, the chairman of the committee on 

 marketing-, then read his report, as follows : 



kepokT ok m.'^rketing honey. 



Our commmittee, with a like committee from the Den- 

 ver Bee-Keepers' Association, after week.s of labor, and a 

 very careful canvass of this question, concluded that in our 

 judg-ment the most feasible plan of co-operation in market- 

 ing" honey was in the formation of a stock company, as out- 

 lined on the back of this sheet (which is Hereby made a part 

 of our report). 



Your committee sent out nearly 300 of these circular 

 letters to bee-keepers throughout the State, at an expendi- 

 ture for printing, postage, etc., of $10.90. These circulars 

 were sent out about the first of June. Up to the first 

 of August the committee had received returns from 25 of 

 the 300 circulars sent out. with a guaranteed .subscription of 

 stock to the amount of $160. Of this amount $55 was from 

 certain members of our committee, leaving $105 from bee- 

 keepers not members of either committee. Of the full 

 amount of $160 subscribed, two-thirds was subscribed to be 

 paid in honey, the balance in cash. With such a showing 

 before us, your committee concluded for the present at least 

 to abandon any further efli'orts in this work. 



We very much regret that we are compelled to make 

 such a report, realizing, as we do, the necessity of, and the 

 advantages to be derived from, such an organization. 

 I C. B. Elliott, 

 S/a/f I J. E. LvoN, n,„.,^,- ( R- C. Aikin, 



Committee '\ W. W. Whipple, ^7,,', ,',-,/,, \ W. L. Porter. 

 I J. N. PEASE. Committee \ ^ r.,uchfuss. 



Mr. Elliott then read the circular letter referred to. It 

 was proposed therein to form a stock co-operative company 

 to be called " The Colorado Bee-Keepers' Exchange," to be 

 capitalized for $5,000, to be divided into 1,000 shares at $5 

 per share, which would give a commercial standing with a 

 fair rating, each share of stock to have one vote, with no 

 voting by proxy ; governed by a board of five directors, 

 with a full .set of officers ; none salaried except those in 

 charge of the company's store-rooms. It was the intention 

 to derive no pecuniary profit other than advancing and 

 maintaining the price of honey ; to see that all honey was 

 properly graded : to have a trade-mark, and affix it to all 

 approved crates and packag-es, both comb and extracted ; 

 and to liquefy and repack all extracted honey in some uni- 

 form package. 



Mr. Honnett — How much honey was shipt from tlie 

 State this season ? 



F. Jiauchfuss — Eleven carloads of 1,008 cases to the car, 

 besides a number of local shipments from Denver of 25 to 

 100 cases each. 



Mr. Honnett — I was askt if I did not over-estimate in 

 stating the product to be 700,000 pounds. 



F. Rauchfuss — No, that is too low. 



Pres. Aikin then exhibited .several samples of the 

 "German Fibre Package." made by a company in Michi- 

 gan. It resembles lig-ht-brown glazed pasteboard in appear- 

 ance, and ranges from small sizes up to those large enough 

 to hold 20 or 25 pounds of honey. Mr. Aikin had tested one 

 by filling it with cold water, and letting' it stand two weeks. 

 It was not aifected in the least. Another, submerged in hot 

 water from 100 to 130 deg^rees in temperature for eight or 

 ten hours, gave away at the joints. Honey does not affect 

 them. Mr. Aikin had not tried liquefying honey in them 

 by dry heat. They are a little cheaper than lard pails, and 

 fasten with a lid in the same wp^y, but the sides are vertical. 

 IContitmed next week.] 



York's Honey Almanac is a neat little 32-page pamph- 

 let especially gotten up with a view to create a demand for 

 honey among should-be consumers. Aside from the Alma- 

 nac pages, the forepart of the pamphlet was written b^- Dr. 

 C. C. Miller, and is devoted to general information concern- 

 ing honey. The latter part consists of recipes for use in 

 cooking and as a medicine. It will be found to be a very 

 effective helper in working up a home market for honey. 

 We furnish them, postpaid, at these prices : A sample for 

 a stamp ; 25 ctipies for 40 cents ; SO for 60 cents ; 100 for 

 $1.00; 250 for $2.25; 500 for $4.00. For 25 cents extra we 

 will print your name and address on the front page, when 

 ordering 100 or more copies at these prices. 



Mk. Orville Jones, of Ingham Co., Mich., wrote us 

 Dec. 15 that the bee-keepers in his locality had a fair honey 

 season in 1898. 



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The Leahy Mfg. Co. wrote us as follows, Dec. 28 : 



" We are now, and have been for two or three weeks, 



running our plant 18 hours a day. It now looks as if we 



will all have a good trade again." 



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Mr. E. G. Money, of Albemarle Co., Va., wrote us Dec. 

 14 : "It gives me much pleasure to renew my subscription 

 to the American Bee Journal. I consider it more than worth 

 the money." 



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Mr. John Suter. of Seneca Co., N. Y., sent us $1.00 for 

 the Langstroth Monument Fund, Dec. 17. We hope many 

 more will follow his example — enclose .something for that 

 fund when renewing subscriptions. 



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Mr. N. E. France. State Inspector of Apiaries for Wis- 

 consin, will speak on bee-culture at the Farmers" Institute 

 to be held at Waukesha, Jan. 15. He has been .speaking at 

 some institute nearly every day so far this month. Mr. 

 France understands his subject, and knows how to pre- 

 sent it. 



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" DOOLITTLE is sick in bed with the grip, hence his arti- 

 cles will be delayed till he is better." So wrote Mrs. Doo- 

 little, Jan. 2. We sincereh' hope our sick friend will very 

 soon be up ag-ain. Bee-keepers can't aiford to have Doolittle 

 in bed more than just long enoug-h for him to get the nec- 

 essary sleep and rest — about eight hours of each 24. 



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Mr. Dan Clibb, of Tulare Co., Calif., has sent us a 

 copv of his local newspaper that copied the whole editorial 

 found on page 728 (1898), entitled "The Union and Comb 

 Honey Lies." , It made almost a column in the newspaper. 

 That is a good idea. Trj' to get your local papers to copy 

 suc'n things from the Bee Journal whenever you can. It 

 will all help to undo the mischief done by the oft-repeated 

 falsehoods concerning comb honey that have appeared in 

 the past. 



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Mr. H. R. Boardman, in a very interesting- account of 

 a visit among- bee-keepers, reports in Gleanings that he 

 found in Lansing, Mich., J. H. Larrabee, formerly so well 

 known in bee-circles, engaged in the bicycle business, and 

 he finds it more reliable than bee-keeping-, which he has 

 about given up. A. D. D. Wood, who went to California to 

 rear queens on the isolated island of Catalina, he found in a 

 smith-shop before a hot fire, where he could not stop, even 

 to talk bees. 



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Mr. Thos. W. Cowan, editor of the British Bee Journal, 

 wrote to his paper from California, Nov. 16, expressing his 

 own and the thanks of his family for the many expressions 

 of tender sympathy received on account of the loss of their 

 son and daug-hter in the wreck of the Atlantic liner Mohe- 

 gan. as announced in these columns some two months ago. 

 Mr. Cowan, in speaking of their sorrow, wrote this beauti- 

 ful parag-raph of trust and submission ; 



" At first our trial did seem almost overwhelming, but 

 very soon we were able to recognize our Father's loving 

 hand in it all, bj- the assurance He sent us that all was well 

 with our dear ones. Their bodies were so quickly recovered 

 absolutely unharmed by the cruel rocks they had been tost 

 among, and the beautiful look of holy calm upon their faces 

 testified that they had died as they had lived, and to their 

 entrance into Glory, .so that we cculd not but feel that, al- 

 tho taken from us, they were pre.sent with the Lord. So 

 our hearts were comforted, and we felt indeed that they 

 were not lost, but gone before." 



