THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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The scheme would be to establish a few packing centers to start 

 with and advertise locally in papers that circulate mostly in the l-")0- 

 mile mailing zone. If the scheme paid out on a small scale, establish 

 more selling centers until the entire United States is well dotted with 

 National packing and selling agencies, when a nation-wide advertising 

 campaign should begin. 



With a system of proper distribution and conservative adver- 

 tising, two or three times as much honey should be consumed in the 

 United States as at present, thus increasing the price materially to 

 the producer, and placing our honey into the hands of the consumer 

 at a less price than they are paying today. 



The consumer should and, I think, would have implicit con- 

 fidence in an association of producers who sell their product direct 

 to them. "Direct from the producer to the consumer" should be our 

 slogan, . 



If you have never attended a National Convention, make a start 

 at this time and attend the big National at St. Louis, February 

 17-18-19. You will be well pleased with the results. 



Oct. 14, 1913. 



Editor Review — The honey crop here 

 is best in years ; no dark honey. Got 

 725 lbs. comb honey from eleven 

 colonies, spring count, three new 

 swarms. Honey sells for 15 cents and 

 moves slow on account of heavy peach 

 crop. Last year it sold from 15 to 20 

 cents ; no disease here. 



Paul Heise, 



Warsaw, 111. 



Forestville, N. Y. 

 I started in this spring with 72 col- 

 onies and increased to 102 colonies, and 

 took off 8,530 pounds of comb and ex- 

 tracted honey, besides saving about 500 

 pounds in combs for feeding to col- 

 onies in the spring when short of 

 stores. I have been keeping bees about 

 eighteen years, starting by catching a 

 runaway swarm.. I was afraid of bees 

 then and if you could have seen me rig 

 up to hive my first swarm I think you 

 would have laughed some. I wish I 

 had a picture of the scene. I practiced 

 Doolittle's plan of shook swarming and 

 only had eight colonies swarm in the 

 yard this summer. These were the ones 

 that I didn't give the treatment. 



A. J. Black, 



Vinegar Made from the Washings of 

 Cappings, 



Editor Review : I presume it is well 

 known among bee-keepers that one can 

 use the washings from cappings for vin- 

 egar. When the cappings were thor- 

 oughly drained of their honey, father 

 poured water over them and allowed 

 them to stand in the water for some 

 time, then strained the sweet water 

 again and this sweetened water he put 

 into barrels, adding some clear water, 

 perhaps. After a time we had the 

 finest vinegar that sold for 20c per gal- 

 lon. Many people consider it far su- 

 perior to cider vinegar, and was no 

 doubt far more healthful. 



I certainly wish you had known my 

 father, but it seems that no large bee- 

 i-ceeper ever came our way. It was al- 

 ways my ambition to have father tell 

 his experiences in conventions or write 

 for the journals, but he seldom did 

 either. I coaxed him to write the 

 article he did for the Review. An 

 article he once wrote was turned down 

 and that discouraged him somewhat, I 

 presume. He was a noble man, a Pro- 

 hibitionist, a Christian who loved peace. 

 If I can be of any further service to 

 you, write me. 



Olive Miller, 



Beaverton, Mich. 



Let the St. Louis trip be your 1911 outing. Could you conceive 

 of a more enjoyable trip? 



