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of every man selling his own honey, and 

 ail that. If a man has a good home mar- 

 ket, or can develope one, or if he is a 

 good salesman, such a course is all right, 

 but the best locality for producing honey 

 is often .a very poor one for selling, and 

 the best bee-keeper is sometimes the 

 poorest kind of a salesman. In such 

 cases it is wisdom to seek distant mar- 

 kets, and to employ somebody to do the 

 selling. 



Lastly, conies the question of when to 

 sell, and it is tl;e most puzzling of any. 

 When there is a large crop the tendency 

 of prices is downward The man who 

 sells early, before the fall in prices, is 

 fortunate. Knowing this, there is a ten- 

 dency to rush the honey into market 

 when it becomes known that there is a 

 bountiful crop. This puts the prices 

 down still farther; and the bee journals 

 have been blamed for reporting large 

 crops because such reports tend to lower 

 prices. If there is a short crop it seems 

 to be all right to report it, as it tends to 

 raise prices. This matter of when to sell 

 is one of those questions that each man 

 must decide for himself. If there is a 

 short crop generally, and prices are ad- 

 vancing gradually, it certainly seems safe 

 to hold honey a reasonable length of time. 

 As a rule, however, I would not hold 

 honey until winter. Bro. York recently 

 advised his readers to sell at once if they 

 could get a fair price; and mentioned 14 

 cents as what he would consider a fair 

 price for comb honey. I think that he is 

 not far out of the way. If I had honey 

 to sell I should hold it at 15 cents. If I 

 could get that I should let it go. If not, 

 then I should hold it and watch the mar- 

 ket. It may possibly go a cent or two 

 above that, but I doubt it. 



Yes, there is one more little point, and 

 that is zvhcre to sell. It often happens 

 that the dealers in the large centers, like 

 Chicago and New York, do not pay so 

 much for honey as can be obtained in 

 some of the smaller cities. A man with 

 produce of any kind to sell should be 

 alert and watchful. I once sold my entire 



crop of comb honey in Detroit at 17 cents 

 a pound, when the markets in all of the 

 other cities was onlv 15 cents at the top 

 notch. I saw the quotations in a Detroit 

 daily; took a sample case and skipped at 

 once for Detroit; sold my honev; came 

 home and shipped it the next day; and, 

 within a week, the Detroit market was 

 glutted and prices away down. Last year, 

 at the Springfield, 111., fair, I was offered 

 12 cents. I stopped at Chicago while on 

 my way home, and was offered 13 cents. 

 I came on home, and did some correspon- 

 dence; finally .selling it to a Columbus, 

 Ohio, firm for 15 cents on board the cars 

 here at Flint. 



In closing I can only repeat what I said 

 at the beginning: having worked hard 

 and produced a crop, don't fool it away. 

 Don't send it to a swindler, nor an irre- 

 sponsible, or inexperienced commission 

 man, but thoroughly investigate the 

 whole matter, and market your honey in 

 a .safe, intelligent and p'-ofitable manner, 

 instead of simply sending it off hap- 

 hazard, and then kicking yourself after- 

 wards for some loss that might have been 

 prevented. 



EXTRACTED. 



DISEASED BROOD. 



How to Diagnose Foul Brood, Black Brood 

 and Pickled Brood. 



Notwithstanding all that has been ])ub- 

 lished on this subject, the average bee- 

 keeper is at a loss what to do, when he 

 finds something suspicious in the appear- 

 ance of the brood in .some hive in his 

 apiary. The first question that he wishes 

 settled is. "What is it?" What ails the 

 brood? Is it foul brood, or pickled brood, 

 or is it black brood? I have seen no bet- 

 ter advice on the subject than the follow- 

 ing that I find as an editorial in 

 Gleanings: — 



