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glucose, with a small piece of comb 

 honey therein. 



It is therefore evident said adulterated 

 honey sold in Denver, Colorado Springs 

 and various cities, is a direct violation of 

 the Colorado P\)od Laws now existing. 

 Said laws also define what shall he the 

 action of the proper ollicers in enforcing 

 the same. As General I\I tnager of the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Association, hav- 

 ing produced the above evidence, I ask 

 the Colorado Food Commissioner to at 

 once take such action as is necessary to 

 bring to justice the violators of said Colo- 

 rado law. 



This is a cooy of same today sent to 

 Colorado Food Commissioner. The Na- 

 tional Association has done its duty, and 

 now the proper officers must do the rest. 



Total costs of above evidence about $26 

 or $27. Yours truly, 



N. E, France. 



EXTRACTED 



SELLING CANDIED HONEY. 



A Novel and Attractive Method. 



One great difficulty in selling extract- 

 ed honey is its tendency to candy or 

 granulate. This can be overcome to a 

 great extent by the application of heat, 

 but many producers save themselves this 

 trouble and all of the trouble that is like- 

 ly to come afterwards, by educating their 

 customers to buy honey in the granulated 

 form. A novel method of educating cus- 

 tomers in this direction, one that is es- 

 pecially adapted to a retail grocer, is de- 

 scribed by Mr. S. T. Pettit, in Gleanings. 

 Mr. Pettit says: 



During the past winter, Morley .supplied 

 a grocer in this town with some candied 

 honey in 6o-lb. tins The grocer, accord- 

 ing to instructions, stripped the tins from 

 one lot and placed it in a conspicuous 

 place in a window in his grocerv, with 

 the inscription, "Pure Clover Honev," in 

 large letters. Well, in a short time that 

 was gone, then another, for a brisk sale 

 sprang up immediately. In a short time 

 that kind of honey failed to appear in the 

 window. A clerk said to me, "That can- 

 died honey interferes with the sale of our 

 couib honey so much that I guess we 



won't sell any more that way until we 

 work off some of our comb" 



They cut it into scjuare and rather thin 

 pieces so smoothlv and neatly that it is a 

 very different article from honey dug out 

 of a pail. Then the customer wisely 

 reasons thus: "That honey in the bottle 

 will cost ine about four cents a pound 

 more than that lovely candied honey, and 

 the candied honey will look so nice cut 

 up and served in little square blocks." 



Of course, some package other than the 

 old-time tin cans will be resorted to an- 

 other year. 



R. F. Holterman had sold it by the 

 barrel that way in Brantford. He simply 

 placed in a large window, stripped the 

 barrel off, and went ahead. 



[This method of selling candied honey 

 is excellent. I have known of the plan of 

 stripping a barrel off from the candied 

 mass, but so far I do not think any one 

 has suggested the pl^n of stripping a tin 

 can off from the candied honey and sell- 

 ing it in the stores in sciuares and slices. 

 It is a goo(i scheme, and perhaps some of 

 our bee-keeping friends would do well to 

 paste this in their hats until the time of 

 selling candied honey comes around next 

 winter. — Ed.] 



SELF-SPACED FRAMES. 



Some of the Advantages and Disadvantages — 

 Especially the Latter. 



More and more, as I go about the coun- 

 try, do I find people who are not satisfied 

 with self-spaced frames. Not a day passes 

 that some man says, and sometimes sever- 

 al men say; "I don't like those Hoffman 

 frames and I wish I had never got them." 

 Mr. Root's p(;ople say that their orders 

 are largely for this style of frame. I think 

 this is largely because the Roots have 

 recommended this style of frame. The 

 great bee-keeping public has confidence 

 in the Roots, and with good reason, and 

 when they push a thing it is usually 

 adopted. I am sincere when I say that, 

 in my opinion, they could do a great 

 good if they would push the plain, all- 

 wood frame. Bee-keepers are quite in- 

 clined to follow their leaders. If the lead- 

 ers advocate the self-spaced frames, it is 

 difficult to get the rank and file to say 

 much against that style; but, to show how 



