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eliminated the risk to a considerable 

 extent, and are very helpful in shipping 

 a few cases to the retail dealer without 

 extra packing. A large amount of honey 

 in former years has been sent to Boston 

 to be sold, and then sent back into our 

 State, sometimes only a short distance 

 away. We are trying to save this 

 expense. 



DIFFICULTIES AND EXPENSES IN BUYING AND 

 BOTTLING HONEY. 



You say that good extracted honey 

 ought to bring 10 cents a pound and you 

 are right, but I fail to see how one can 

 afford to pay that price for bottling. It 

 seems almost incredible that it should 

 cost so much to reach the great mass of 

 consumers. The cost of honey, the cost 

 of bottles, and labels, freight on bottles 

 and honey, and again on both when put 

 together, as all go for honey, the loss 

 from breakage, the loss from honey left 



in tin cans, or from filling defective 

 bottles, or leaky cans, or some of light 

 weight, the time and fuel, will run up 

 to nearly 20 cts., and then the retail 

 dealer wants from five to seven cents for 

 his trouble in selling, and this leaves but 

 little to pay for bottling. Only last 

 week, in melting up a few hundred 

 pounds of honey, one can had a nail hole 

 in the bottom, and, of course the most of 

 the honey ran out into the tank of warm 

 water, the water running in to take its 

 place. Out of 96 dozen pound bottles, 

 22 were defective, had a crack or a 

 very small hole in the bottom, not dis- 

 covered until partly or wholly filled with 

 hot honey. I am hoping that the use of 

 paper bottles will help us out some in the 

 sale of extracted honey. At ten cents a 

 pound 1 believe the honey producer has 

 decidedly the best end of the business. 



MiDDLEBURY, Vt., May 11, 1910. 



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EDITORIAL 



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The poorest man, the ground above, 

 Is he who lacks a woman's love. 



Men who mind their own business 

 succeed so well, because they have so 

 little competition. 



The Review is now printed on a new 

 Babcock-Optimus press costing 82,000 — 

 the finest press in the city. 



Clubbing Rates on the Review and 

 Townsend's Bee Book are $1.35 — not 

 S1.25 as given in former advertising. 



Extracted versus comb honey produc- 

 tion is a vital, living subject. The first 

 article in this month's Review touches 

 upon some of the leading features. If 

 any of my readers can mention other 

 points, 1 shall ba pleased to hear from 

 them. 



The Michigan association of bee keep- 

 ers now numbers 238 members, and she 

 IS doing more for her members, in a 

 practical way, than any other similar 

 association. 



Rearing and mating queens from above 

 an excluder is a topic that a subscriber 

 would like discussed in the Review. If 

 any reader has had experience along this 

 line, I would be glad to pay him for tell- 

 ing about it in the Review. 



The Jones System of preventing 

 swarming was advertised very extensive- 

 ly a year ago, and several hundred books 

 sold. It was also copied into the Review; 

 but I have heard almost nothing from 

 those who gave it a trial. If anybody 

 gave the plan a fair trial, I will pay him 

 to tell about it in the Review. 



