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It than they could expect for the !i(iuid 

 honey free from the comb. They pro- 

 .luce all their honey in shallow extract- 

 ing: frames, then cut it out and put it 

 in tin cans of various sizes, ready lo 

 be Cifelivered to the consumer. And 1 

 can readily understand how nearly ev- 

 erybody would "take to" such honey, 

 just as naturally as a duck takes to 

 water. It has the real bee -honey taste. 

 There is nothing about it that sug- 

 gests artificiality, as do the clean, 

 white sections, free from even a stain 

 of propolis or bee-glue. Chunk or 

 canned comb honey shows on its face 

 that it is the real honey,' simply cut 

 out of the hive and placed on the 

 market. It could very well be put into 

 tin pails or other receptacles, that 

 may easily be handed out to consum- 

 ers. I predict that this method — which 

 may seem somewhat slipshod, and 

 savor a little of the back woods — will 

 be practiced pretty generally over the 

 whole country within a very few 

 years. It is a sane, sensible, success- 

 ful method. It is economical for the 

 producer — no sections needed, but plen- 

 ty of shallow frames; more comb 

 foundation, more hives, more supers, 

 and then more honey harvested. And, 

 with plenty of such super-room on the 

 hivesr-4^ere is going to be less swarm- 

 ing. T^Sv honey is not removed i'rom 

 the hives tlTl the end of the honey sea- 

 son. Result, a better quality of honey 

 because thoroughly ripened while with 

 the bees. 



But I didn't start out to boom chunk, 

 bulk, or canned comb honey. And yet, 

 I believe it is going to prove to be the 

 method which will help most to popu- 

 larize the use of honey — help make It 

 a staple article of diet sooner than 

 anything else I know of. I think this 

 method needs to be encouraged, be- 

 cause it will also put more money into 

 the pockets of the honey-producers; 

 more money in the bank for the bee- 

 supply manufacturers and dealers; and 

 thus bring the greater financial suc- 

 cess to all connected in any way with 

 the industry of bee-keeping. And 

 above and beyond all this — and also 

 more important — more people will be 

 eating honey, and thus more people 

 will have better health, liv-3 longer, and 

 be happier. And, maybe, mere people 

 will be keeping bees, more bee-keepers 

 will "keep more bees," and thus there 

 will also be produced more and better 

 fruit because of the more pi rfe'^t fei- 



tilization of the fruit blossoms 

 throughout the country on account of 

 the presence of a larger number of 

 bees to do the work. 



Now, you may say that all this looks, 

 very well on paper, bu* it is the talk 

 of an enthusiast. All right, let it be 

 so. But what I am telling you is al- 

 ready being accomplished in Texas and 

 other parts of the South — that fair 

 land that has in very recent years 

 been teaching the North how to "sober 

 up" and get rid of the curse of the 

 open saloon, State by State. Who 

 knows but our Southern bee-keeping 

 brethren and sisters will yet teach 

 us of the North how to "sweeten 

 up," as well? Let us not despise 

 our calling, but let us go forth 

 to help make our goodly land "a 

 land flowing with honey," whether it 

 f.ows with milk or not. Our dairy 

 cousms can look after the cow-and- 

 milk part of it; let us attend to the 

 bees and their honey. 



GEORGE W. YORK. 



Chicago, 111., Nov. 15, 1909. 



Pres. Kildow — Is there anything to 

 offer on this paper? 



Dr. Bohrer — I heartily endorse the 

 paper. I got the impression that our 

 Southern bee-keeping friends are ex- 

 tensively engaged in the procluciion 

 of chunk honey that is out in cans, 

 with the comb and all; but many of the 

 bee-keepers in the North are preparing 

 it in a more economical form than 

 that, and I believe it will, in time, be 

 more generally done in the South as 

 well as the North, because we save the 

 wax, that is, by the, use of the extractor. 

 Wax is no more digestible than a dia- 

 mond or piece of glass, and people are 

 more and more coming to realize that. 

 If honey can be produced in large 

 quantities, and be put on the market 

 at lower rates, you can sell more of it. 

 You can get from six to eight cents a 

 pound wholesale for the honey now. 

 I believe I could sell 20,000 pounds of 

 honey within three months within the 

 limits of my own county — extracted 

 honey. Everybody knows me there, 

 and they don't believe I would put up 

 bogus honey; and, besides that, I tell 

 tihem how they can catch me if I at- 

 tempt it, and they take it for granted 

 that I produce the right kind of honey. 

 We have one of the ablest secretaries 

 of the State Board of Health in any 

 part of the United States, and he 



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