. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 18 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL January field in which to'sell honey, although Montana honey is also fine. But there is so little of it, as the summers are so short; therefore, the demand cannot be supplied with local honey, which thus leaves room for others to come in and take advantage of the shortage. If you want to have a good outing, and also see the,; country, just extract your honey in the fall, get an automo- bile, and then start out. Mr. and Mrs. Sires surely have tested out their plan of disposing of the honey crop, and it certainly works well. No d
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 18 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL January field in which to'sell honey, although Montana honey is also fine. But there is so little of it, as the summers are so short; therefore, the demand cannot be supplied with local honey, which thus leaves room for others to come in and take advantage of the shortage. If you want to have a good outing, and also see the,; country, just extract your honey in the fall, get an automo- bile, and then start out. Mr. and Mrs. Sires surely have tested out their plan of disposing of the honey crop, and it certainly works well. No doubt others will " go and do ; Mr. Sires passed through Sandpoint, Idaho, twice during the recent few months, and it was my good fortune to meet him and'have several interest- ing interviews with him. He uses paper packages, shipping the honey in 60-pound tin cans to where he wants to retail it, and then fills the smaller pack- ages with it there. While there is 'a great deal to the producing end of honey, unless it is well sold the results are not very en- couraging. It is seldom, however, that a good producer of honey is also a good honey salesman, but I believe that with the methods used by Mr. Sires almost any beekeeper could easily dispose of his honey crop, re- gardless of its size. At any rate, the plan is well worth a sincere trial. Sandpoint, Idaho. About Bee Demonstrations BY FRANK C. PELLETT. AFTER giving a live bee demon- stration in conjunction with a public lecture for several years, I have decided that it is of very doubt- ful value and have discontinued it. There is nothing which will attract more attention in an average locality than such a demonstration, and if it were possible to control the nature of the publicity that resulted, a properly conducted demonstration might be valuable. I have always taken pains to explain that there is no mystery con- nected with the performance, and that nothing which might be dona would be strange to well in
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