'fJdlL BEh-KEEPERS REVIEW, 



23 



THE BKE keepers' UNION. 



Miaager Newtnau of tho Bee-Keepers' 

 Uiiiou has published his auuual report for 

 18!)r>. The old officers are re-elected, (t. W. 

 Demaree declines to act, which places Hon. 

 E ijjene Sjcor on the board. There is so 

 large a balance on hand that no assessment 

 will be made this year — aiembers who paid 

 .fl.OO in 1S;)5 will continue to be members 

 during 18Vlli. No steps were taken regarding 

 amalgamation with the North American, as 

 many of the members believed thit details 

 had not yet been sufficiently discussed, and 

 that it would be better not to " marry in 

 haste to repent at leisure. " 



California members propose that the 

 Union should create a Honey Exchange 

 Ware House in some large city where they 

 could deal direct with the retailer through 

 the General Manager. To this Mr. Newman 

 makes the following suggestions. 



"Such a Honey Exchange should be lo- 

 cated in the very heart of the city selected 

 for it, and conducted on pure business prin- 

 ciples. There must be a financial backirg 

 adequate to the business to be done. Ship- 

 pers will want advances on consignments. 

 Heavy freight bills will have to be provided 

 for, and help and rent will not be small items 

 of expense. It would need several thousands 

 of dollars to start with. 



In my opinion, this should be a separate 

 business matter and not be tacked on to the 

 Union. Financial reverses or some unex- 

 pected losses, by failure or otherwise, might 

 bankrupt the Union in a short time. Be- 

 sides, it should be managed by an expert 

 honey-dealer, who should devote his whole 

 time to the business. " 



LEAFLETS TO SEND OUT WITH HONEY. 



Several weeks ago I received a letter from 

 Dr. A. T. Peete of Branchville, S. C. suggest- 

 ing that retailers of honey ought to have ap- 

 propriate reading matter to send out with 

 each package. I quote from his letter as fol- 

 lows : 



"I need, every day, and hundreds of bee- 

 keepers need, a small folder or circular to 

 be enclosed with every package of honey 

 sold. Makers of soaps, salves, patent medi- 

 cines and preparations of all kinds never 

 send out a package without accompanying 

 it by such recommendations. 



Bee-Keepers trust to the merits of their 

 product, or to the mercy of Providence, to 

 make honey the staple we all talk about. 

 We do not push the business in the way our 

 modern system recjuires. 



The pamphlet, " Honey as Food and Med- 

 icine, " will not answer the purpose. It is 

 too long and consumers will not read it ; be- 

 sides, many of its recipes are absurd non- 

 sense. It costs too much. What I should 

 like would be a sheet ;$ x inches, folded once, 

 making four pages; two pages ( or three ) 

 setting forth tiie dietic and medicinal value 

 of honey, the remainder containing recipes. 



These could be sold very cheaply by the 

 thousand. Your practical judgement, and 

 skill in displaying ads, made me think that 

 you are the right man to get up such a leaf- 

 let. " 



What do the readers of the Review think 

 of this ? Would there be a demand for such 

 a leaflet ? Please give me some suggestions. 

 What should be said? Send me some tried 

 recipes. When I get a quantity of material 

 I will print it in the Review where it can be 

 criticised, and when we get it into the prop- 

 er sliape, if the indications are that there 

 will be a demand for such a leaflet I will 

 print some in good style and offer them for 

 sale. 



Since the above was written a most excel- 

 lent, four-page leaflet has come to hand 

 from Mr. Allen Priugle. Now if any one 

 else has such a leaflet will they please send 

 in a copy, 'i 



MR. PUINGLe's paper. 



Most of my readers know that I have talk- 

 ed a good deal about the desirability of a bee 

 paper being "all bees, " and sometimes I 

 have drawn the lines pretty tight. Last 

 year, in reporting the proceedings of the 

 Ontario convention, I did not even men- 

 tion Mr. Pringle's essay on " Education," 

 because it did not treat of bees. Consider- 

 ing all this, you may wonder that I admitted 

 his article that appears in this issue. I did 

 so because it seemed of such unusual value. 

 Perliaps there is nothing particularly new in 

 it, l)ut Mr. Pringle has put things in such a 

 clear, practical manner that we can under- 

 stand and put them in practice. 



There are one or two points upon which I 

 am not sure that Mr. Pringle is correct. I 

 incline to the belief that a lire in a room 

 carries out the vitiated air, and pure air 

 finds its way in through cracks and crevices 

 to replace it, and in this way the air of a 

 room is really purer for the presence of a 

 fire. I also believe that fresh, lean beef, in 

 moderate quantities, properly cooked, is a 

 wholesome food. I must admit, however, 



