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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



quality," put it up in the very best 

 possible shape for the market, then 

 USE PRINTERS' INK, and take the 

 Editor's word for it, you'll "win 

 out." Get out of the fog! The Job- 

 ber will get you if you don't! 



Interest Growing 



Never before has the writer had 

 so many inquiries from people in 

 Florida who are becoming interest- 

 ed in Apiculture. The immediate 

 cause has been no doubt, a 

 "bumper" orange honey crop and 

 ideal weather conditions over the 

 state generally. Many of those who 

 are enticed into the field of Bee- 

 dom by the allurements of a pros- 

 perous year, will grow cold as 

 promptly when the first poor season 

 comes; others will last 'till two poor 

 seasons come in succession, then 

 they, too, will retire, often with a 

 grouchy air, and be "sore heads" 

 on bee-keeping ever after. But 

 from every fresh afflux of amateurs 

 come a few souls who only ad- 

 here closer than ever to the calling 

 of their choice, when adverse seas- 

 ons come and some men of genius 

 are added to the list — men whom 

 the great Bee Brotherhood will be 

 forced by and by to honor. 



And speaking of perseverance, 

 there is one fact that stands out 

 conspiciously from the series of 

 articles now current in the Review 

 from the pen of the Georgian 

 apiarist, Mr. J. J. Wilder — that it 

 takes bull-dog grit and tenacity to 

 make any business grow and con- 

 tinue to grow, through thick and 

 thin, year after year — a growth that 

 knows not defeat, nor recognizes a 

 Waterloo. — E. G. B. 



United States Department of Agi*i- 

 cultiire, Bureau of Crop Kstimates 

 AVashiiigton, D. C. 



Honey Crop Conditions July 1 



The following figures are prices 

 paid producers of the United States 

 on June 15, 1914, and the aver- 

 age of the preceeding four years 

 on June 15. 



Products 1914. 4-yr.av. 



Honey, extracted.. . .106 .122 



Honey, comb 138 .1.36 



On comb honey the estimate is 

 very close when one takes into 



consideration the amount of low 

 grade of comb that sells for 10 

 to lie per pound. At first thought, 

 those who produce very fine white 

 Comb Honey, would think the es- 

 timate altogether too low at less 

 than 14c per pound, but likely the 

 amount sold at less than thig will 

 offset what is sold for more. The 

 average estimate on Comb Honey 

 is very close, if anything tooi high. 

 On extracted honey the estimate 

 is rather high. We are afraid 

 some of us have sold our extracted 

 for less than .122 during the pre- 

 vious four years and are not now 

 receiving .10 6 for what we have. 

 In figuring an average price on ex- 

 tracted honey, one must take into 

 consideration the 70c per gallon 

 baker stock, as well as thq best 

 white for table use at 9 and 10c 

 per pound. The average between 

 6cts. per pound and 9 cts. per lb. 

 would be between seven and eight 

 cents as the average selling price 

 of extracted honey for the last four 

 years, as received by the producer. 

 One would wonder if we do 

 not need some good practical bee- 

 man in the Bureau of Crop Esti- 

 mates. 



Member C. P. Lang, La Crosse, 

 Wis., writes under date of July 

 15th as follows: "I am shipping 

 comb honey out of the state to a 

 commission house, selling by the 

 case. The commission house in 

 turn sells to the grocer, who weighs 

 the honey out to the customer. 

 Now why should I be compelled to 

 mark new weight, exclusive of the 

 wood, on each section?" (In your 

 case friend Lang, you are consider- 

 ed the Manufacturer, producer,) 

 and the ruling from \Vashington 

 says very plainly that it is the 

 Manufacturer who must stamp each 

 unit that is to be sold to the 

 consumer. In your case it is the 

 individual section that is consider- 

 ed the unit, and as you produce it 

 exactly as it is handed the consum- 

 er over the grocer's counter, you 

 are the one required to stamp the 

 net weight upon it. Were your 

 comb honey sold direct to the con- 

 sumer by the case, then the case 

 would be all that would be requir- 

 ed of you. We have good authority 

 for saying that if your shipments 

 were extracted honey, in 60 lb. 

 tin cans, shipped to the bottler, 



