404 THE BEEKEEPERS' REVIEW 



A National Honey Day 



The 25th of this month, November, the first effort will be 

 made toward observing one day each year as ''Honey Day." It is 

 presumed that the most enthusiastic supporters of the movement, 

 do not expect to do wonders, this, our first attempt. If we keep in 

 mind that "from little acorns great oaks grow" and each one does 

 his or her "mite" something good will result. Many products of the 

 soil are having National days, like, "Apple Day" for instance, when 

 the papers talk, "Eat some apples tomorrow, for, tomorrow is Na- 

 tional Apple Day." You will help along a good cause by eating, cook- 

 ing and preserving some apples tomorrow, or something similar, 

 the point being to bring before the masses that apples are good to 

 eat and every time anything along this line is mentioned in the 

 press, it stimulates consumption — why not honey ? Make an effort 

 to get something in your local paper about the 25th of November 

 being "National Honey Day." 



In all the central section of Florida the summer of 1915 will 

 go down on record as an abnormally poor yield of honey, especially 

 from the sources not included in the finer table honeys. 



While bees are breeding well they have no surplus and some 

 may even need help in honey from the stronger colonies. It looks as 

 if 1915 were to reach a lower watermark — we mean honeymark — 

 than even 1914.— E. G. B. 



It is likely true that the producer is the only one who sells 

 honey too cheaply direct to the consumer, the dealer usually asking 

 a good margin over wholesale prices. It would be a good thing to 

 have a commission appointed whose duty would be to determine a 

 jobbing price, a wholesale price and a retail price for both comb 

 and extracted honey. Such a commission is now working over the 

 line in Canada, with very good results, only (they say) some few 

 will not stick to the price established by the commission. The Cana- 

 dian commission meet twice each year, the first time soon after the 

 white, or early honey flow is harvested, the second time soon after 

 the Fall honey flow is harvested. The business of the commission 

 is, first, to determine the amount of the crop produced and with 

 this knowledge, establish the selling price for the producer. This 

 is something for the National Beekeepers' Association to take hold 

 of. Oh dear me, there is so much the National COULD do. 



We note with pleasure a beautiful new work just from the 



