THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 139 



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At the St. I.ouis meeting" it was proposed to lift the lvi:\ ii:w deljt, 

 and do it as soon as possible. One big-hearted l)rother oflered to 

 start with $2.j.00 if it eould be done this season. Another offered 

 $10.00, another $5.00, and others different sums. .Send on your 

 money, brothers, but do not tie any string" to it. \\'e will pay 

 it off and get it out of the way. but let's get rid of it. 



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Look out for Foul Brood in the dead and dying colonies this 

 time of year. More colonies become infected this way than any other. 



Some of the trade associations have large sums of money behind 

 their publicity work. We have something better. We have an editor 

 whose services to the bee-keepers are worth more than money, an 

 official organ of our own, and an abundance of enthusiasm. 



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One of the breakfast food concerns spends the big end of a mil- 

 lion dollars yearly in advertising a product that, while it is perfectly 

 harmless, only costs two or three cents per package and sells for ITic. 

 Put the same per cent behind the sale of honey, and see where the 

 price would go. Think we could produce enough to supply the 

 demand? 



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Has any one any good and tried ways of using honey in baking? 

 My wife has never had much success with it. If you have any that 

 you can swear by, send them along; I would like to try them and 

 pass them around. 



A paper was read at St. Louis urging that low prices are neces- 

 sary so that people will buy and eat lots of honey. A sort of endless 

 chain, as it were, to no price at all. Lower the price to sell lots of 

 honey, increase the production to get enough money to live on so 

 that we can sell more honey for less money, and again increase the 

 production to get enough money to live on, etc., etc.. and meantime 

 the price is lost in the shuffle. It reminds me of the old verse: 



The little fleas that do us tease 



Have lesser fleas to bite 'em. 

 These in turn have smaller fleas. 



So on — ad infinitum. 



It would take a very powerful instrument to find either the little 

 fleas or the profits of such a system of business. I will bet a dried 

 apple to a gooseberry that the man who wrote this article does not 

 have to work from 4 a. m. until S p. m., when the mercury is trying- 

 to climb out at the top of the thermometer. When one does, he is 

 keen after the added penny that publicity brings. 



