THE BEEKEEPERS' REVIEW 453 



Thursday, December 16 



8 a. m. 



Demonstration in Bottling Honey Messrs A. G. Woodman's warehouse. 



9 a. m. 



Demonstration in Assembling Bee Supplies. .. .Messrs. A. G. Woodman Co. 

 Business Principles and System a Big Asset in the Success of the Apiarist. . . . 



Mr. Ira D. Bartlett, East Jordan, Mich. 



Which Should Beekeepers Produce, Extracted or Comb-honey Mr. E. R. Root, 



Editor — Gleanings in Bee Culture, Medina, Ohio. 



What an Inspector Sees Mr. F. Eric Millen 



Question Box Mr. C. F. Smith 



Group Photo. 



1:00 p. m. 



Outdoor Wintering Dr. E. F. Phillips 



The Bee Business in Canada as Seen by a Trip through Different Provinces .... 



Mr. Morley Pettit. 



Reports of Committees. 

 Awarding of Medals 

 Election of Officers: — 



President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer. 



Delegate to the National. 

 Selection of the place for next years' Meeting 

 New Business 



F. ERIC MILLEN, Secretary-Treasurer, 



East Lansing, Michigan 



The Market Question 



HARRY LATHROP, Bridgeport, Wisconsin 



Given at the National Beekeepers' Convention, Denver, Colorado February, 191.5 



It has been said that honey is such a perfect food that it requires no di- 

 gestion but passes directly into the circulation. 



I think that will be the character of this paper — it will require no diges- 

 tion. 



Once in a while some one bobs up in the journals and suggests that bee- 

 keepers have said enough along the line of inducing more competition in the 

 bee business. They might just as well save themselves the trouble; the fact is, 

 beekeepers as a class are so enthusiastic, and have so much good feeling that 

 they can not refrain from portraying to any willing ear, the rosy side of bee- 

 keeping. It will continue to be so and no successful producer will ever regret 

 that he felt and talked that way, during his beekeeping career. 



This habit of beekeepers, and the work of the bee journals, will do all that 

 is necessary in educating in the best methods of beekeeping. The work of the 

 National Association should be directed to larger matters. A great work of 

 the association is to bring the marketing end of our vocation on to a good bus- 

 iness base. Surely there is great need because no business ever presented so 

 many outlandish inconsistencies. Why should honey which is a reliable 

 commodity, and the production of which has been reduced to a scientific basis, 

 be subject in the marketing to so many odd twists and capers, like a veritable 

 jumping jack. 



