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THE BBE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



fine article; come and take a look at it." 

 I did, and found over loo cases containing 

 1 20 pounds to the case. I supposed the 

 one showing me the honey had made a 

 mistake, for I thought the cases contained 

 extracted honey, but I found the 120- 

 pound cases filled with as fine comb hon- 

 ey as I ever saw, but in 60-pound cans. I 

 asked the price, and was more than sur- 

 prised to find it only 6 cents a pound, 

 when I had come prepared to pay from 

 12^ to 14 cents for good section honey. 

 I asked them to remove a portion that I 

 might examine it more closely, but it was 

 impossible to .do so without breaking and 

 tearing it all to pieces. Of course I did 

 not buy a pound of that honey for I could 

 not use it. I could not sell it to my cus- 

 tomers for as much as clear extracted 

 honey. Now, that was A, No. i, comb 

 honey, originally, and it would have 

 brought 15 cents per pound at wholesale, 

 readily, had it been in sections. I was 

 there to give that much for as much of 

 it as I needed, but I would not give the 

 five cents per pound that they sui'sequent- 

 ly offered it to me for, and I believe they 

 sold it later for 4)^ cents per pound. 

 How much the poor fellow netted on that 

 fine lot of "'chunk" honey I leave you to 

 figure out; I only know I was sorry for 

 him, and glad I was not in his place. 



This lot of honey came, so I was infor- 

 med, from Uvalde Co., Texas, but I could 

 not learn from whom. The quality of the 

 honey was .such that it greatly influenced 

 me to afterwards move two car loads of 

 my bees to Uvalde Co. , Texas. When I 

 came back from moving the first car of 

 bees out there I brought back a case of 

 "chunk" honey, alias, Uvalde sections, 

 alias, broken comb. Soon after my re- 

 turn I met an old customer of over 20 

 years standing to whom I usually sold 

 about 100 pounds of extracted honey and 

 nearly as much comb each year for his 

 own use. He asked me if I had some 

 good honey, as he was out and need- 

 ed some. I showed him a can of I\-alde 

 sections of "chunk" honey, and he sam- 

 pled it, aud was pleased with it, and or- 



dered it sent to his place. That was a 

 costly sale for me, for not one dollar's 

 worth of honey has he bought of me since; 

 and that was more than three years ago. 

 Recently I asked him if he did not want 

 more honey, but he remarked that they 

 had quit eating honey at his house; and I 

 feel sure that mixed mess did it. 



There is something more or less inter- 

 esting and exciting in tackling a big bee- 

 tree on a frosty morning, in the fall, at 

 just the right time to secure the greatest 

 amount of the golden store hidden away 

 in it by the bees; and when the tree falls, 

 and the precious store is laid bare by the 

 quick, fikillful strokes of the ax, how de- 

 lightful it is to pick and nibble the choice 

 morsels and fragments as we remove the 

 great white flakes of comb, and the brown 

 and darker ones, until the tubs and buck- 

 ets are filled to overflowing; but, friends, 

 do we want to go back to this method of 

 harvesting our sweets? I assure you, that, 

 to me, the honey from wild bee-trees is 

 more attractive and appetizing than this 

 mixture of comb and extracted honey, 

 candied, that some are trj'ing to boom. 

 That the use of "chunk honey" as a pio- 

 neer to form the habit of more freely us- 

 ing honey, ma}- have its da)' and mission 

 is possible, but not probable, or else 

 I greatly mistake the spirit of the times. 



BELLEVILI^E, Ills., Mar. i, 1900. 



EDITORIAL 



ftcrings. 



C. p. Dadant is wsiting, for the Amer- 

 ican Bee Journal, some very interesting 

 notes of his recent travels in Europe. 



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H. P. Miner, of Wisconsin, writes 

 that the September Review made him 

 say that two men could chaff 50 colonies 

 in two days, when it ought to have said in 

 two horns. 



