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grows larger until the larva begins to as- 

 sume the color of a dark-yellow or brown, 

 when it dies. Sometimes the dead mat- 

 ter looks almost like white glue; but 

 when the larva dies after it is capped over 

 the matter will have a coffee color. It 

 ropes very slightly, and is of a watery 

 consistency; but before it will rope at 

 all it has to be of the right age. When it 

 is remembered that it is only occasionally 

 that this diseased matter will rope, and 

 that only very slightly, and that foul 

 brood invariably does so, the dead matter 

 stringing out sometimes two or three in- 

 ches, it will be seen there is quite a dis- 

 tinct difference. At its first appearance 

 black brood has a sort of sour smell, 

 while foul brood has a foul or sickening 

 odor like that of a glue-pot. 



SELLING CANDIED HONEY. 



If Rightly Managed it is More Profitable and 

 Satisfactory all Around. 



I doubt if candied honey can ever be 

 put up in such a manner as to be as at- 

 tractive as liquid honey put up in glass. 

 Mr. Selser makes a grand success of buy- 

 ing honey, and paying good prices, and 

 then heating up the honey, bottling and 

 labeling it, and selling it at a good profit. 

 But there are advantages in selling honey 

 in the candied state. The package costs 

 less, there is no danger of breakage, and 

 no annoyance from having to take back 

 and liquefy honey, as is sometimes the 

 case when a producer tries to keep his 

 customers supplied with liquid honey. 

 Mr. R. C. Aikin of Colorado is a strong 

 advocate, and practicer, of selling honey 

 in its candied state. Mr. Root of Glean- 

 ings recently attended the Colorado con- 

 vention, and in Gleanings he gives the 

 following account of Mr. Aikin's success 

 in selling candied honey. He says: — 



When he (Aikin) first began selling 

 his product he looked up the markets at 

 Chicago and other cities, and found that, 

 after freight, drayage, and commission 

 had been deducted, there would be but 

 very little left for him. He then conclud- 

 ed 'that, if he could sell his honey as 

 cheaply, or nearly so, as sugar and other 

 standard sweets, consumers would buy it 

 in preference, and he would make a bet- 



ter profit than to send to the city, and 

 be sure of his money. Accordingly, he 

 has for several years been selling his crop 

 around home, and selling little or none to 

 the city markets. He put the price low, 

 and retailed it out in large and small lots, 

 Vv'ith the result that he had been able for 

 several years to sell his honey almost at 

 his door, and get for it, in return, cash 

 from neighbors and friends, rather than 

 wait six months or longer on commission 

 men of doubtful reputation. 



He exhibited his pails of honey — hon- 

 ey candied solid. These packages were 

 nothing more or less than small lard 

 pails, with slophig sides, so that they 

 would nest. They bore a verj' neat lith- 

 ograph design on the outside. By first 

 purchasing the stone (something that is 

 analogous to an electrotype for ordinary 

 printing), the makers of the pails litho- 

 graphed all his stock at a slight addition- 

 al cost. 



It is characteristic of Colorado honey 

 that it candies very quickly. These pails 



