. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. VOL. VII. NOVEMBER, 1897. NO. II. The Honey Market, BY B. J. H. Harry Lathrop, quite a prominent bee-keeper of Wisconsin, in a recent issue of Gleanings sa^'s: "The honey market is smashed. It looks to ine as though the business has fallen by its own weight, and foul brood and bad seasons have been friends instead of ; It is a blessed good thing for the future of beekeeping that Mr. Lath- rop will, more than likely, be per- mitted to monopolize his optimistic view. The business will fall by its own weight when after honey has bee
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. VOL. VII. NOVEMBER, 1897. NO. II. The Honey Market, BY B. J. H. Harry Lathrop, quite a prominent bee-keeper of Wisconsin, in a recent issue of Gleanings sa^'s: "The honey market is smashed. It looks to ine as though the business has fallen by its own weight, and foul brood and bad seasons have been friends instead of ; It is a blessed good thing for the future of beekeeping that Mr. Lath- rop will, more than likely, be per- mitted to monopolize his optimistic view. The business will fall by its own weight when after honey has been systematically introduced into the homes of the people, and the masses have been educated to its use, not alone as a table delicacy but its many culinary uses, and a surplus "weight" has accumulated, and not until then. It may fall from other causes, but surely not from its own weight, when probably not one person in a thousand has been informed as to its excellence as an article of food, its medicinal properties and diversified household uses. It may fall as a natural result of negligence upon the part of pro- da Jir s to unite in elevating it to its rightful place among the staple ar- ticles of commerce. Contrast Mr. Lathrop's view with that of R. C. Akin, a progressive specialist of Colorado, who, in a most excellent contribution to the same journal upon the subject of marketing, suggests the organization of compan- ies or associations to establish packing houses in producing districts, to put all honey according to a standard grading system, in uniform retail packages of convenient size, under the association guarantee and a regis- tered trade mark, distributing it throughout the country, in proportion to the actual demand existing, or that may be created by the educational ef- forts which would necessarily consti- tute a part of the work of such an organization. Now, note the concluding remarks of this specialist regarding the "weight" of our infantil
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