Gleanings in bee culture . advertising; and just suppose thosecans had been empty honey-cans! Wouldnot we be a-flying? It takes money to ad-vertise, and no feasible solution has everbeen offered, but I know of one. I wouldhave the National issue stamps, beautifullylithographed in two or more colors, giim-med and j^erforated, and the same size ofour postage stamps, or, jierhajis, more likeour Red Cross stamps. They could beoffered by the National and associations,and publishers and supply-dealers wouldgladly act as agents. They would be usedon the backs of letters, and thousands ofbeekeepers wo
Gleanings in bee culture . advertising; and just suppose thosecans had been empty honey-cans! Wouldnot we be a-flying? It takes money to ad-vertise, and no feasible solution has everbeen offered, but I know of one. I wouldhave the National issue stamps, beautifullylithographed in two or more colors, giim-med and j^erforated, and the same size ofour postage stamps, or, jierhajis, more likeour Red Cross stamps. They could beoffered by the National and associations,and publishers and supply-dealers wouldgladly act as agents. They would be usedon the backs of letters, and thousands ofbeekeepers would be glad to use them, eventho they were not members of any associa-tion nor even reading a bee could be sold at any fixed price, sayone dollar per hundred, or may be fiftycents per hundred. The money thus broughtin could be used by a committee in judi- GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. David Runuiuss home yard at Filion, Mich., from which over 10,000 lbs. of honey was harvested last season. cious advertising. The stamps should bebeautifully engi-aved, and the first thing onethinks of is a clover-head with a bee. Someother flowers would engTave nicer than aclover-head, and the flower need not neces-sarily be a honey-producer. I would sug-gest a calla lily, or lily-of-the-valley, and Iwould have a very little reading-matter—say, for instance, Eat Honey at the topof the stamp, and the initials of the Nation-al at the bottom. The stamp fad is a fad everywhere now, especially if the stamp isartistic, and I found a lot of pleasure inusing a lot of Red Cross seals, and find thaiother people are inclined the same way. Ihave explicit faith in this if tried out, andit would not cost a great deal to try shall not know till we try, like the manwho could not distinguish his mushroomsfrom toadstools. Eat them; if you livethey were mushrooms; but if you die theywere toadst
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