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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



"It is not a safe rule to put your 

 name and addi-ess on comb honey un- 

 less you are retailing it yourself. Then 

 it would be all right. Or, if the dealer 

 buying your honey wanted it on. 



"We have worked up a demand for 

 'York's Honey,' and not Smith's, or 

 Miller's, or Nelson's honey. 



It would simply be foolish for us to 

 create a demand for Nelson's honey 

 one year, and then the next year he 

 would likely have no crop. Where 

 would we be then? Again, Nelson 

 couldn't produce the tenth part of 

 what we woula need to supply our 

 trade. Then, where would we be 

 again? 



"The best way when wholesaling 

 honey is to omit the name and address 

 from every case and every section." 



ORGANIZATION. 



The Necessity for Employing its Advantages. 



At the close of the President's ad- 

 dress at Denver, Mr. R. C. Aikin 

 made quite a lengthy response, in 

 which he enlarged upon the keynote 

 of the address— organization. Mr. 

 Aikin said: 



"I think I shall not say very much 

 relative to this subject, except on one 

 particular phase of it— organization. I 

 believe that there are many bee-keep- 

 ers, both East and West, because of 

 some things I have said in print, and 

 because of my remarks in convention 

 and in private conversation, have their 

 eye upon me to learn something about 

 organization, and I look upon this sub- 

 ject as one of no mean importance. 

 Every one of you who are today read- 

 ing the papers and observing the trend 

 of business affairs, understand that or- 

 ganization and co-operation to an ex- 

 tensive degree are being practiced; the 

 great railroad concerns, the manufac- 

 turing concerns, and many others, 



have taken an interest in one another, 

 and in relation to one another are 

 uniting under what is known as trusts 

 or combines. The foundation or idea 

 in all these is correct, is the proper 

 thing. Two large manufacturing con- 

 cerns will go together because the two 

 concerns united under one manage- 

 ment can be handled more cheaply and 

 more successfully than as two organ- 

 izations. So it is we are combining 

 and co-operating, and with bee-keep- 

 ers it is the same thing. And let me 

 give another thought here: All man- 

 kind are dependent more or less upon 

 one another; and in these days the 

 disposition is for me to produce one 

 thing, and a neighbor to prduce an- 

 other thing, and so on all along the 

 line, each having his special line of 

 production, becoming an expert in that 

 one thing; and as specialties increase 

 we become more and more dependent. 

 That is the way it Is that the large cor- 

 poration, or trust, or combination, gets 

 it within their power to oppress those 

 who are not organized. Colorado bee- 

 keepers will recall how, from year to 

 year, I have urged and pressed for 

 organization, not as a monopoly, but 

 as a means of protection, and to facili- 

 tate business; and I am tempted from 

 day to day, and in my private con- 

 versation, to recall and point out the 

 work of the fi'uit organization in 

 Southern California. I know very little 

 about it only by the published reports, 

 principally those given by Prof. A. J. 

 Cook, which you all know has brought 

 about a distribution of the product, 

 putting it in the markets where it is 

 most needed; in short, an intelligent 

 distribution of the product. Now we 

 want to follow those lines; we want to 

 co-operate; we want to produce as 

 specialists, each one of us filling our 

 place in the grand machinery of the 

 whole. Last night some of the speak- 

 ers referred to the magnificent dis- 

 tances of Colorado, and the one thing, 



