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in first-class shape, thinking- that his 

 inferior goods ought to bring as good a 

 price as a fancy article. Nor can we 

 satisfy our customers. 



We had one experience with extracted 

 honey from Florida two years ago. One 

 of our old shippers whom we have 

 known for 20 years, sent a lot of honey, 

 about 30 barrels. When the honey ar- 

 rived, we found that every barrel of 

 honey was fermented and soured. As 

 good luck would happen, this very man 

 was in New York, and we telegraphed 

 to his hotel to come down immediately 

 He appeared the next morning, and we 

 showed him the honey on our fioor— 

 every barrel fermented and soured. 

 This party said: "Although 1 have 

 known this house for so many years, 1 

 would not have believed it if 1 had not 

 seen the honey myself." He could not 

 understand how it happened. We told 

 him it was simply a case of shipping un- 

 ripened honey. The party who produced 

 this honey rushed it to market without 

 letting it ripen, and, naturally, it fer- 

 mented and soured. We generally 

 caution our shippers not to rush the 

 honey to market until it is well ripened, 

 but, off and on, we have experiences like 

 the one above. 



You say: "That a large crop of clover 

 honey is expected this season, and that it 

 is certain that the man who puts his 

 crop on the market early this year will 

 not make a big mistake." 



From the reports thus far received, 

 principally from New York State, we are 



informed that the bees have wintered in 

 first-class condition, are in first-class 

 shape and that the outlook was never 

 more promising for a good crop than this 

 coming season. If this be the case, and 

 a large crop should be produced, those 

 producers who send their honey to the 

 market at an early date, we believe will 

 reap the benefit, and will make no mis- 

 take in selling at the beginning of the 

 season. 



Prices of honey, comb as well as ex- 

 tracted, have been fairly well sustained 

 during the past few years, and are likely 

 to hold their own during the coming 

 season. We do not, however, look for 

 any advance in prices. Trade conditions, 

 in general, are not up to the standard, 

 and not what they should be. Too many 

 men are out of work, and it is mostly, 

 at least to a very large extent, the labor- 

 ing class who buy and consume most of 

 the comb honey. Comb honey is a 

 luxury and nothing else. If the laboring 

 classes earn good wages, they are apt to 

 spend a large share of it for these 

 luxuries, but, if not, they will simply do 

 without them. Other commodities they 

 must have, but honey they can get along 

 without. While extracted honey is used 

 very largely for manufacturing purposes, 

 the fact should be borne in mind that it 

 is not exactly a necessity, and that large 

 manufacturers can get along without it 

 to a certain extent, at least, if prices are 

 ruling too high and above the limit they 

 expect to pay. 



New York, N. Y., June 7, 1910. 



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EDITORIAL 



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Back of every successful business or 

 enterprise are somebody's bright brains. 



"Be Sure you are right, then go ahead,'' 

 is an excellent motto, but don't spend so 

 much time deciding what is right, that 

 there is no time to go ahead. 



Blowing bees off the combs with com- 

 pressed air brought into the yard with a 

 hose, from an air pump, is something 

 that G. W. Haines of N. Y. tried, and 

 wrote about it to Gleanings. It blew the 

 bees off all right, but that wasn't all; it 

 blew the unsealed honey out of the combs. 



