. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 300 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW year (summer 1913) by spring count, and have doubled my num- ber of colonies by dividing at the close of the clover flow, and I did not do any feeding. I am in the business to stay. I have ordered $ worth of bee supplies for the coming season,, and anticipate a busy year in the apiary. Yours truly, JOHN HEBERT, Jr., C'aseville, Mich. Every flower produces a different flavor; if you do not like one kind of honey, try another. For strong flavors, try basswood, goldenrod or buckwheat honey; for mild flavors, try clover, etc
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 300 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW year (summer 1913) by spring count, and have doubled my num- ber of colonies by dividing at the close of the clover flow, and I did not do any feeding. I am in the business to stay. I have ordered $ worth of bee supplies for the coming season,, and anticipate a busy year in the apiary. Yours truly, JOHN HEBERT, Jr., C'aseville, Mich. Every flower produces a different flavor; if you do not like one kind of honey, try another. For strong flavors, try basswood, goldenrod or buckwheat honey; for mild flavors, try clover, etc. There is more nourishment in a pound of honey, than there is in a pound of beefsteak. Meat contains 65 per cent water, besides the fiber, which is indigestible. Honey is 20 per cent water, and is almost all digested, leaving nothing to burden. Apiary and Work shop of John Hebert, Jr., Caseville, Mich. To the Editor "Bee-keepers' Re- view, How can we educate people to eat more honey? If every local newspaper in the country would carry a standing advertisement, somewhat like this: "HONEY" "Kilt thou HONEY it is good," Prov. 24:13. the people, as a whole, would eat more honey. J^et local bee-men have articles like the following in the local papers from time to time. "Honey is not only a medicine, but a food, direct from Nature, the nectar of flowers, gathered,, modi- fied and evaporated by the bees. No purer or better food has been given to man by his Creator. the system. It is all used in pro- ducing heat or energy. One can eat two pounds of honey at the price of one pound of ; (Here in the South at least, we can eat more than three pounds of honey at the price of one pound of butter. Ed.) Then, below that, I would give the prices of honey, different sizes of packages., and time of delivery of orders, etc. If every apiarist would thus keep the idea of "Eat more Honey" before his commun- ity, the great central markets
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