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in the restaurant trade. It holds about two ounces of honey, 

 and is also neatly labeled. The cost of the jar is about 2 

 cents. The jars can be returned after using, at one cent 

 each. As many restaurants charge 10 cents for a serving of 

 honey it will be seen that there is a profitable field for the 

 individual honey-package for hotels and restaurants. 



But what needs to be done first is to get into the heads 

 of the consumers the fact that they can buy pure extracted 

 honey; that comb honey is not made by machinery; that 

 honey is the best sweet on earth; and that they ought to eat 

 more of it, and cut out the glucose syrups and other ques- 

 tionable mixtures that are forever being palmed off on the 

 public. These are matters in which every bee-keepers' as- 

 sociation, as well as bee-keepers themselves, can help, and 

 help mightily. We must all unite in talking honey, and also 

 in getting newspapers to print items about honey. The 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association should lead in this cam- 

 paign, I think. It should prepare suitable matter for publica- 

 tion, and then its members and local organizations should 

 see to it that every editor they know publishes it in his 

 paper, even if it takes a little cash or several pounds of 

 honey to induce him to do it. 



I believe when the people of the United States once 

 understand the honey question they will use our sweet in 

 such quantities that bee-keepers will have to bestir them- 

 selves in order to supply the demand. Then the advice to 

 "keep more bees" will be heeded more than it is now, for 

 bee-keepers will see that there is a profitable outlet for their 

 crops of honey, and that there is good money in the business. 



I trust this convention will discuss this question fully. 

 It means so much to every bee-keeper in the land. Just now 

 there are bee-keepers who do not know how or where to 

 dispose of their honey. In the good time coming such will 

 not be the case. Honey-biSyers will be hunting for honey — 

 they will be calling on bee-keepers to send in their honey, 

 and at a good price. May that happy day be hastened in 

 its coming! George W. York. 



REPORT OF THE STATE INSPECTOR 



To the Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Association I submit the 

 following report : 



In making this my first annual report of State inspection, 

 I will say that the work to be done in this State is far 

 more important than the best-informed on this subject can 

 imagine. Bacillus alvei (foul brood) I have found to exist 

 from the counties bordering on Lake Michigan to the banks 

 of the Mississippi River. 



In my work I visited bee-keepers in 32 counties, and found 

 foul brood in most of them. I also found the infection had 

 been brought by buying bees and queens from diseased api- 

 aries and careless dealers. Any one buying queens should be 

 very careful. The trouble may be avoided by removing the 

 queen from the cage upon arrival into a clean cage, and burn- 



