THE BEE-KEEPERS* REVIEW. 



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Now, can't a moral, or several morals, 

 be ilrawn from this little story? Tirst, it 

 pays to understaml our businsss, what- 

 ever it is, anil attend to it ourselves, in 

 an intelligent manner. I was richer by a 

 consitlerable sum than would have been 

 the case had I left all to the discretion of 

 the commission man. Take the papers, 

 and keej) posted. All progressive honey- 

 producers know there is not much honey 

 to come fo-ward this season. There is a 

 class, and not a very small one either, 

 who will have good honey at almost anj' 

 price. 



I have sold honey, a great many tons 

 of it, as well as other {)roduce, through 

 commission men for over 25 years. I 

 have frequently interviewed them, and I 

 think I understand them pretty well. I 

 am glad to be able to say the}- are most 

 of them very fine men, and my dealings 

 with them have almost always been very 

 satisfactory. But they are between two 

 fires — shippers and buvers. They have 

 friends, often heavy buyers, whom they 

 are anxious to please and hold, and it is 

 not strange that they will often do so at 

 the expense of shippers. Put it out of 

 their power to do this with yotcr honey 

 this year by limiting the pricr. If not in 

 too much of a hurry to sell, you can get 

 a good price for all there is to sell. Of 

 course, this plan will not work so well in 

 flush years. 



I now produce only extracted honey, 

 and have a good home market for most 

 of it. If I had comb honey this year, 

 and wanted to sell it through commission 

 houses in Chicago, or any other cit}-, I 

 would induce honey-producing friends to 

 pool their interests with mine, put up 

 the honey in attractive shape, go to the 

 market and explain the situation to a 

 half dozen or more good houses in the 

 selling district, and fix the selling price 

 at a fair figure, considering the probable 

 supply and demand. Selling honey in 

 many places at the same price, buyers 

 would soon learn that they nmst pay a 

 good price for honey if they got it, and 

 would pay it just as readily as a low one. 



WH.AT'S THE TIME? 



A booklet with this title, just published 

 by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 

 Railway, should not only be in the hands 

 of every traveler, but should have a place 

 on the desk of every banker, merchant or 

 other business man. 



The four "Time Standards" which gov- 

 ern our entire time system and which are 

 more or less familiar to most of the 



traveling public, but by many others lit- 

 tle understood, are so fully explained 

 and illustrated by a series of charts, dia- 

 grams and tables that any one who chooses 

 can become conversant with the subject 

 ill question. There are also some twenty- 

 four tables l)y which almost at a glance, 

 the time at any place being given, the 

 hour andjlay can be ascertained in all the 

 principal cities of the world. 



A copy of this pamphlet may be had 

 on application to Geo. II. Heafford, Gen- 

 eral Passenger Agent, Chicago, enclosing 

 two-cent stamp to pay postage. 



Honey Quotations.. 



The following rales for grading honey were 

 adopi^ed by the North American Bee - Keepers' 

 Association, at its WaHhington nieeting, and, so 

 far as possible, quotations are made according 

 to these rales. 



Fancy. — All sections to be well filled ; combs 

 straight, of even thickness, and firmly attached 

 to all four sides ; both wood and comb ansoiled 

 by travel-stain, or otherwise : all the colls sealed 

 except the row of cells next the wood. 



No. 1. — All sections well filled, but combs nn- 

 even or crooked, detached at the bottom, or 

 with but few cells unHea'ed ; both wood and 

 comb unsoiled by travel-stain or otherwise. 



In addition to this the honey is to be classified 

 accfirdingto color, using the terms white, amber 

 and dark. That is, there will be " fancy white," 

 No. 1,. dark." etc. 



The prices given in the following quotations 

 are those at which the dealers sell to the gro- 

 cers. From these prices must be deducted 

 freight, cartage and commission — the balance 

 being sent to the shipper. Commis.sion is ten 

 percent.; except that a few dealers charge only 

 five per cent, when a shipn.ent sells for as much 

 as one hundred dollars. 



NEW YORK -Receipt of comb honey are 

 very light. There is a good demand for all 

 grades and we quote as follows: Fancy white, 

 1.5 to 16; No. 1 .\niber, i,, to 14'..; Amber, 9'_, to 11; 

 Buckwheat, unglassed, lo; Buckwheat, glassed or 

 cartons, 1 1: White extracted, in barrels, 7 to 7'..; 

 I.,ight amber ext.. in barrels, 6's to 7; Buckwheat 

 ext., in kegs, sU to6. Beeswax in good demand 

 at 28 cents per lb. 



FRANCIS H. LEGGETT & CO. 

 Sept iS. W. Broadway Franklin & Varick Sts. 



NF;w YORK —Comb honey, of all kinds and 

 grades, is in very good demand, autl we expect 

 prices to hold firm. Kxtracted in belter demand 

 than during the past three months, but there is 

 enough supply to meet demand. We quote as 

 follows: Fancy white, 15 to 16; No. i while 14 to 

 15; fancy amber, i,^; No. i amber 12; fancy dark, 

 11; No. '1 dark, 10; white, extracted, 7J4 to S; 

 amber, 7; dark, ^U to 6; beeswax, 27. 



HILURETH & SEGEt,KEN, 

 Oct. 3. lao West Broadway, New York. 



