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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



I secured 

 for about 



attended 



foreman of a gang of apple packers, but, 

 instead, 1 ordered several gross of glass 

 bottles, with capacities of 6 ounces. 12 

 ounces and 13 ounces. The latter kind 

 is a fancy bottle, but costs the same as 

 the 12 ounce, i. e., S5.75, and the 

 6 ounce cost S5.25 per gross, 

 a very neat and attractive label 

 75 cents per M. 



Commencing about Oct. 1st, 1 

 the Hamilton market about twice a week. 

 I got a good stand for my rig, and it was 

 net long before people looked for the 

 "honey man"' every Thursday and Satur- 

 day, and they found him in the same old 

 place, I got 10 cts. for 6 oz.; 15 cts. for 

 12 oz.; and 18 cts. for IS oz. bottles. !f 

 I had any left at noon I had no difificulty 

 in disposing of them to nearby grocers. 

 Very often the bulk of my load was sold 

 early in the morning to grocers before 

 retail customers arrived. I charged the 

 grocers 95 cts. per dozen for 6 oz.; 

 S1.50forl2 oz.: and $1.65 for fancy 

 1 3 oz. bottles. 



When it became too cold to stand on 

 the market, I adopted another plan. I 

 went to the city once a week with my 

 three samples in a grip, and canvassed 

 the grocers. I was surprised to find so 

 few stores handling honey. However, 

 I never had any difificulty in securing an 

 order for at least a dozen, and 1 often got 

 an order for a half gross. I found that 

 the 6 oz. and 13 oz. sizes sold best. 

 After securing enough orders to make a 



good one-horse load, I would quit can- 

 vassing for that day. Next day I de- 

 livered my load. The next week I can- 

 vassed another part of the city, and so 

 on, getting around to the different 

 sections every three weeks, when the old 

 customers would be ready to give me 

 another order. 



Now for results, I find on consulting 

 my books that I cleared on the market, 

 over the price of the bottles, a little over 

 15 cts. par lb. on 2,000 lbs., and 13,54 

 cts. on the balance, sold exclusively to 

 grocers, or exactly $610.50, besides 

 about 200 lbs. used and given away. I 

 might have taken the 8^^ cts. offered, 

 which would have amounted to about 

 $365. and could have made $75 addi- 

 tional working out, which gives a total 

 of $440. Besides realizing a much 

 better price for my honey, by staying at 

 home, "1 was on the spot," at least three 

 days a week, to attend to any one of the 

 numberless things which need attention 

 during the early fall, such as feeding 

 light colonies, requeening an occasional 

 queenless colony and protecting weak 

 colonies from being robbed. 



In the above I have tried to show, from 

 my experience, that it seldom pays to 

 mix anything else with bee keeping; even 

 though the number of colonies is only 33. 

 Besides, I have helped to educate many 

 people to eat honey by introducing it 

 into sections of the city where it was 

 almost unknown. 



Palermo, Ont, Feb. 9, 1910. 



Selling Large Quantities of Honey to Grocers 



and Private Customers. 



A. SNYDER. 



gFTER reading and re-reading the 

 Review for August, 1910, es- 

 pecially an article written by 

 Fred W. Muth of Cincinnati, Ohio; also 



one by Hildreth I'v Segelken, of New 

 York City, 1 desire to write an article on 

 marketing a crop of honey. 

 Both of these firms mentioned have 



