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several cases of goods in the dif- 

 ferent sizes of cans on top of these 

 cases and they don't forget price 

 and motto cards, either. You can- 

 not enter the store without seeing 

 a half wagon load of corn syrup 

 just begging you to take it home. 



Another proposition I will make 

 is that we should put about as 

 much attention on the providing of 

 a dust, fly, and leak proof display 

 case for comb and extracted honey 

 as we do on a winter protection 

 case for our bees. We should not 

 neglect either and we can provide 

 for both. 



The third proposition is that it 

 will pay us as well to stimulate 



our honey customers, through leaf- 

 lets, advertising, etc. as spring 

 stimulation or manipulation of our 

 bees. It is as important for the 

 grocer to know where to store 

 honey safely as it is that we sup- 

 ply a good super for the bees to 

 put the surplus in. Beekeepers owe 

 it to themselves to make it as 

 easy for the retailer to sell the 

 honey quickly as they do to secure 

 the best of honey with the least 

 expenditure of labor. Let's do intell- 

 igent marketing, when we have a 

 choice article of honey. We will pro- 

 fit by knowing the business end of 

 our honey as well as the business 

 end of our bees. 



EDITORIAL CORNER 



If each member would send in 

 one subscriber to the Review and 

 National member each year, how 

 our membership would grow. This 

 does not seem so very hard to do 

 and wouldn't be if all would put 

 their shoulder to the wheel and 

 push. 



If you think that the NATIONAL 

 should be operated along different 

 lines, if you have any idea that 

 you could better the management 

 in any way, now is your time to 

 make your suggestions known, so 

 they can be published in the No- 

 vember Review, then your sugges- 

 tion can be acted upon at the Del- 

 egate meeting Februarly, 1915. 



A few weeks ago we had the 

 pleasure of a visit from that Pio- 

 neer and Prince of Beemen, Mr. 

 Oscar Ogden Poppleton, late of 

 Stewart, Fla. Mr. Poppleton for years 

 the most fertile and voluminous 

 correspondent of the bee journals 

 of any writer from the Southland, 

 has just sold out all his apiarian 

 interests in Florida and will hence- 

 forth spend his summers in the 

 north (probably in Iowa) with re- 

 latives, and only come down to 

 Florida for the cold months, his 

 beloved "play ground" that he can 

 not leave altogether. 



Mr, Poppleton, slight of form 



and always delicate of health, has 

 accomplished more than many huge 

 giants of towering height and a 

 mountain of strength. He has 

 learned how to save himself, to 

 conserve his strength and use his 

 head for his hands wherever pos- 

 sible. Always a keen observer, he 

 has formed the habit of exactness, 

 that is a joy to experience or know. 

 He always PROVES OUT a theory 

 before he breathes a word of it 

 and does not say "DOES," though 

 we should use past tenses now, 

 does not rush out to herald broad- 

 cast his latest theory, but waits for 

 further corroboration to prove or 

 disprove his ideas. As a result we 

 feel a confidence in all the ut- 

 terances of Mr. Poppleton that is 

 not present when we talk with many 

 a beeman less careful in his state- 

 ments or less accurate in his ob- 

 servations. Mr. Poppleton is three- 

 score years and ten and then some 

 but he is 77 years young, not old. 

 He walks like a young man. There 

 is an elasticity and a spring in his 

 step that even Dr. Miller would 

 enjoy and appreciate. And both Dr. 

 Miller and Mr. Poppleton seem to 

 grow mellower and sweeter as the 

 years are piled on them. May the 

 bee fraternity of our great land 

 have many more years of these 

 peerless fathers of immortal youth, 

 and may still other nestors arise, 

 Avhen these are gone, to lift the 



