. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1897. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 809 is not good form to eat honey at table, except about as much as one might politely eat of butter. This pestilent idea rules with such an iron sceuter that few of us would dare to break over at a friend's table—certainly not I. Where is the table in this whole land at which honey is regarded as a thing lo be sailed into for all one's appetite calls for, like bread or pota- toes ? I somewhat suspect that it ought to rank with bread and potato. Bee-keepers themselves bolster up the homeo- pathic style of eating by pref
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1897. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 809 is not good form to eat honey at table, except about as much as one might politely eat of butter. This pestilent idea rules with such an iron sceuter that few of us would dare to break over at a friend's table—certainly not I. Where is the table in this whole land at which honey is regarded as a thing lo be sailed into for all one's appetite calls for, like bread or pota- toes ? I somewhat suspect that it ought to rank with bread and potato. Bee-keepers themselves bolster up the homeo- pathic style of eating by preferring to offer honey for sale in very small amounts or packages, and by the inflated prices put upon these little morsels. It is as if butter were generally offered for sale in one-ounce rolls, at 5 cents a roll. Let's think of the matter, whether we cannot by an alltogether effort set honey where butter used to stand in ancient times (see Judges 5:25), as a food to be eaten freely and ; It's a good thing to laXk honey, as well as to eat it. But you'll find that the "eat" will quite naturally follow the "talk"—on the part of the other fellow. If bee-keepers would constantly carry a few copies of the pamphlet, " Honey as Food," and hand it to their friends or acquaintances, or even strangers, we think they would be surprised at the in- terest it will create in honey, and how soon its readers will want some. We know whereof we speak, for we have tried, and are trying, that pamphlet right here in Chicago. It does the work. Tl?c Weekly Budget. Hon. Eugene Secor, the General Manager of the United States Bee-Keepers' Union, attended the annual meeting of the Iowa State Horticultural Society last week. Mr. Secor is a very busy man—the kind that accomplishes something. Mr. R. H. Jones, of St. Louis Co., Mo., wrote us as fol- lows, Dec. lU: "I would not be without the American Bee Journal if I had to forego enough dinners to pay for t
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