COMB HONEY. 



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COMB HONEY. 



printed in two colors. The spaces on the 

 top and two sides and bottom contain appro 

 priate printed matter. On the back there 

 is a recital of the contents of tlie package, 

 and a denial of the oft-repeated canard that 

 comb honey is manufactured. On the two 

 sides is an explanation concerning honey and 

 its flavors, and honey as a food. On the top 



is a statement showing ti.at the contents are 

 pure under the national pure-food and drug 

 act of June 30, 1906; and all over the pack- 

 age the caution is given not to store the 

 honey in a refrigerator or cellar, but to put 

 it in the warmest anddryest place available. 



THE FRANKLIN CARTON. 



Mr. Benjamin Franklin, of Franklinton, 

 N. Y., uses a two-section carton, for he says 

 he can sell two sections as easily as one. 

 The illustration here given shows how it is 

 put together. 



GRADING COMB HONEY. 

 In order to get the largest price possible 

 for comb honey, it will be necessary to grade 

 it ; and the more thoroughly and honestly it 



I is done, the higher will be the price secured. 



! If one is careless in grading there will be in- 

 ferior sections mixed in with sections of a 

 higher grade ; and if the commission man or 

 buyer discovers this he is likely to " knock 

 down the price " of the whole easeful to the 

 price of the inferior sections. It is very im- 

 portant to have every section in a case of 

 the same grade. 



Obviously not much will be accomplished 

 if there be a dozen different systems or rules 

 of grading. So far they have been reduced 

 to two— one set for the Eastern bee-keepers 

 and another for the Western. There is no 

 reason why we could not have all adopted 

 one and the same set of rules. It is unfor- 

 tunate that a uniform grading is not univer- 

 sal over the country. The Eastern grading 

 reads as follows: 



GRADING RULES. 



Fancy.— All sections well filled, combs straight, 

 firmly attached to all four sides, the combs unsoiled 

 by travel-stain or otherwise; all the cells sealed ex- 

 cept an occasional one, the outside surface of the 

 wood well scraped of propolis. 



A No. 1.— All sections well filled except the row of 

 cells next to the wood; combs straight; one-eighth 

 part of comb surface soiled, or the entire surface 

 slightly soiled ; the outside surface of the wood well 

 scraped of propolis. 



No. 1. — All sections weW. filled except the row of 

 cells next to the wood; combs comparatively even ; 

 one-eighth part of comb surface soiled, or the entire 

 surface slightly soiled. 



No. 2.— Three-fourtlis of the total surface must be 

 filled and sealed. 



No. 3.— Must weigh at least half as much as a full- 

 weight section. 



In addition to this the lionej' must be classified ac- 

 cording to color, using the terms white, amber, and 

 dark; that is, there will be "Fancy White," "No. 1 

 Dark," etc. 



These are based on a set of rules original- 

 ly adopted by the National Bee-keepers' As- 

 sociation in convention at Washington, D. 

 C, in December, 1892. It will be seen that 

 the question of color and source is taken care 

 of very nicely in the last paragraph, so that 

 we can have a No. 1 or fancy amljer or a fan- 

 cy buckwheat, the same as a fancy clover 

 stock. 



In the mean time the Colorado Bee-keep- 

 ers' Association, the most influential organ- 

 ization west of the Mississippi, adopted the 

 following set of rules: 



Nu. 1 rF/(i(e.— Sections to be well filled and even'y 

 capped except the outside row, next to the wood ; 

 honey white or slightlj- amber, comb and capping^ 

 white, and not projecting beyond the wood; wood 

 to be well cleaned; cases of separatored honey to 

 average 31 pounds net per case of ~-t sections, no 

 section in this grade to weigh less than 13H ounces. 



Cases of half-separatored honey to average not less 

 than 33 pounds net per case of 34 sections. 



