. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 136 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL April of bee products and will fit in as sug- gestions along with Mr. Latham's ideas for the consideration of the bee- keeper who is willing to try to help himself. The present honey grading system of American beekeeping is at fault and beekeepers .should get behind some national body which can change the honey-grading rules, and bring them up to date, which can advertise to create a demand for honey because it is honey, and not because it is a sub- stitute for something else, or because it is being pushed as a luxury. The Ame
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 136 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL April of bee products and will fit in as sug- gestions along with Mr. Latham's ideas for the consideration of the bee- keeper who is willing to try to help himself. The present honey grading system of American beekeeping is at fault and beekeepers .should get behind some national body which can change the honey-grading rules, and bring them up to date, which can advertise to create a demand for honey because it is honey, and not because it is a sub- stitute for something else, or because it is being pushed as a luxury. The American Honey Producers' League is attempting to do this. We do not say they alone will succeed, but we will work with them as long as they honestly try to help the beekeeper. TOO MANY BEEKEEPERS By Oscar Skuw Too much can be said in the farm papers and on the street corners about how much money there can be made from a few stands of bees. This creates a class of beekeepers who think that great wealth can be ac- cumulated without cost or labor. Consequently they will produce two or three hundred pounds of honey m box hives, without much cost or labor, and as a rule will sell their crop at whatever they can get, and establish a price with which the professional beekeeper cannot compete. Thus, for the last three months I've been un- able to sell a single pound of honey in the neighboring towns, where 1 used to dispose of a good deal of honey . Consequently, I've had to seek a different market. When our professors and lobbyists also get these distant territories covered by novice beekeepers, where will the professional with his large crop dis- pose of his honey? It would be much belter, I am sure, if the professor and others who seem so determined to increase honey pro- duction would help the fellow who has already produced heavy crops, to find a legitimate market. Iowa. (There seems to be a general im- pression that there is a large increase in the number of beekeepers in this coui
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