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money sent by mail unless letters were 

 registered, etc. Now can any one for an 

 instant think so badly of our bee keep- 

 ing friends as to believe that there are 

 those among us who would send tor 

 queens the fourth or fifth time after they 

 had received one in good order. Our ex- 

 perience has been quite the contrary. 

 Not a dollar has been lost so far as we 

 can learn out of over $200 sent for 

 queens. Our customers have been more 

 patient and forbearing than we could ex- 

 pect, and in a few cases when queens 

 were lost directly, by our own careless- 

 ness, we really felt ashamed of ourselves 

 on receipt of kind and courteous letters 

 informing us of the mishaps, without im- 

 plying in the least that we were expected 

 to make good, losses occasioned by our 

 blunders. It has been our impression for 

 the last year, from the tone of letters re- 

 ceived, that our people have been so 

 abused, humbugged and imposed upon, 

 that when they do send money by mail, 

 they hardly expect to be treated as a 

 fellow-being. The evidence against Mr. 

 K. (see A. B. J. for Oet, page — ) is at 

 present much stronger than any that he 

 can bring against our friends who read 

 The Bee Journals. 



HOMEY COIXMJT. 



W HAVE 300 or 400 lbs. of nice Bass- 

 w« wood honey that I will deliver at the 

 depot for 18c, and 100 lbs. of dark honey 

 for 1 6c. Hinby Palmer, Hart, Mich. 



Machine extracted honey has sold with 

 me first-rate so far. I hare sold since 

 July between 7000 and 8000 lbs. With the 

 exception of about two bbls. it was all put 

 up in 1 and 2 lb. jars and in & lb. jelly 

 tumblers. Of the latter only a small 

 quantity, of course. I have a first-rate 

 retail trade for machine extracted honey 

 and I am sure that in a short time the ex- 

 tracted honey will be the only honey call- 

 ed for. In a shew window I have an as- 

 sortment of differont jars of honey all 

 put up at the same time and from the 

 same lot, hence the same honey; some of 

 the honey has crystalized perfectly white, 

 other jars next to those crystalized ones, 

 or above or below them, are perfectly 

 clear yet. What is the reason for this 

 difference. Remember the jars being 

 closed in the same manner, keeps them 

 alike air-tight, of course. 1 wish to 

 answer that question so often asked, 

 "Why does that jar of honey eandy and 

 the one next to it does not," a little more 

 satisfactorily than with my present "don't 

 know." I don't remember of having seen 

 *he question of crystalization discussed 

 in a Bee Journal, and it will interest all 

 to let the knowing ones come out on that, 

 topic. C. H. Mctii, Cincinnati, O. 



We at one time found the candying pro- 

 cess a great drawback to the sale of 

 honey, but now really think it an advan- 

 tage, and our customers, too, have learn- 

 ed t'o consider that which caadiea first, the 



be.-it honey, "lis true it is some trouble 

 to get it out of barrels when in the solid 

 state, but we manage to get our barrels 

 into the cellar of our store, near the hot 

 air furnace, before frosty night3, where it 

 never gets colder than about 50°. We fill 

 jars from these barrels with facility by 

 means of a molasses gate, filKng several 

 dozen at a time, as they may be needed. 

 These jars of honey candy,- of course, as 

 soon as they are exposed to a temperature 

 of 30 or 40 ; but this we care little about 

 for we can at any time restore it to iu 

 original appearance and flavor by melting 

 it. The most convenient way of doing 

 this in our own family, we have found,, is 

 to place the jar for several hours on the 

 reservoir of our Stewart stove, or if some 

 honey be wanted in a hurry, the cap and 

 rubber is removed from the jar which is 

 then placed in the back oven ; should the 

 honey be too thin and need "ripening" it 

 can be brought to any desired consistency 

 by continuing the process, and we must 

 confess to a weakness for clover honey so 

 thick that it requires to be handled with 

 a knife in very cold weather. Our chil- 

 dren make a very beautiful candy ot honey 

 in the same way, working it osthey do 

 molasses candy. As we can not give Mr. 

 Muth a single idea as to why one jar of 

 honey candies sooner than another, we'll 

 stop. 



I have about 400 pounds basswood honey, 

 extracted and in good order, all stored in 

 jars from 10 to 50 pounds. . I should be 

 very glad to sell it at 18 cents net cash. 

 My honey is thick and I do not see how- 

 anyone can have better. 



Joseph Dctfelkb, Wequioek, Wis, 

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LrCK IV BEE KEEPING. 



f^j^O W. sir. I want to tell you there li such 

 Ivi! a thing as luck in keeping bees : th«sy 

 as « may be managed ever so well and then 

 bad luok comes in. I will tell you how it 

 happened. I bad some of my best Italian 

 stocks close to my house and treated as you 

 gave in "Gleanings" for winter. The very 

 best stock was stole right from under my 

 window, last Sunday night. I felt as bad 

 about it as I should if it had been one of my 

 horses. Now, Mr. N., if your tea-kettln 

 feeder is not patented I wigh you would tell 

 us how, and with what, you keep the 

 syrup from running too fast for the bees to 

 take away. M. Richaedsox. 



Port Colborne, Canada. 



We are really sorry fop our friend arul 

 can offer no remedy unle*3 it be to make 

 the high board fence around the Apiary. 

 thief proof as wall as wind proof. If 

 'twere possible to tell who were the un- 

 principled depredators could not they be 

 told kindly that we would give them the 

 honey twice over rather than have them 

 destroy our choice Italians. We feel sure 

 their better feelings might be appealed to. 

 Our friend has not tried the tea-kettle 

 feeder we think. Atmospheric pressure 

 keeps them from leakiug, on the same 

 Driuciple that a small mouthed vial will 

 fiold water when inverted. 



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