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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 



TIN WARE FOR THE HONEY BUSINESS. 



PACKAGES TO GIVE AWAY WITII TOE HONEY 

 AVnEN SOLD. 



f-T seems to have been pretty well demon- 

 strated of late, that the best thing in 

 — ' which to keep honey is tin. Those who 

 have been in the retail trade know how an- 

 noying it is to have customers always bor- 

 rowing dishes to carry the honey home in. 

 To wait on customers expeditiously, we want 

 something they need not be under the ne- 

 cessity of bringing back again, and some- 

 thing so cheap that no one will object to 

 paying a trifle more for the honey in order 

 to cover the cost of the dish, pail or plate. 

 As live and ten cent stores are quite fashion- 

 able now, we will commence with a plate 

 small enough to hold a half pound of either 

 extracted (candied) or comb honey. The 

 former will be live cents, and the latter ten 

 cents, including the bright, new tin plate, a 

 good deal brighter, in fact, than a silver dol- 

 lar. These plates we can furnish for 75c. 

 per hundred. 



The next size is for one pound, and is 

 worth SI. 00 per hundred. They are to be 

 sold, with the honey, for 10 and 20 cents. 



THE NEW TIN PLATES FOR RETAILING 

 HONEY. 



The largest size, shown in the cut above, 

 holds 2 lb., and the price is $1.75 per hundred. 

 Of course, these packages are for retailing 

 right in your own town and neighborhood, 

 and are not suited to carry any distance. 

 For distant customers, there is nothing like 

 tin pails. The loose cover will allow the 

 honey to expand in candying, while it. keeps 

 out all dust, etc., and can readily be opened 

 and closed. A two quart pail seems to be 

 most in favor, for almost any family can 

 make use of them, for the low price of 12c. 

 Stamped covers can be bought for 2c, a pair 

 of ears for lc, a sheet of 14x20 tin, costing 

 9c, will make 3 bodies, a sheet of the same 

 will make 6 bottoms, and the bail and solder 

 will perhaps cost ic. more. This makes all 

 together, tie. Close work I tell you, boys, 

 to do the work and retail them for 4ic, but 

 it can be done. By buying the materials in 

 quantities, and having the pails made in 

 large numbers, by the piece, they can be sold 

 for 12c at a small profit. If japanned, and 

 lettered "Pure Honey," they are worth 

 about 20c 



Here is a query : 



I would like it, if you would inform us, through 

 Gleanings, what size to cut tin for 1^0tt>., 50ft>„ and 

 -5t>. tin cans. Robert Robertson. 



Tennyson, Lanark Co., Ont., Ca. 



The 25 lb. can is 10 inches high, and H in 

 diameter. Get sheets of tin for the body 

 10x28, or cut one of the size mentioned above 

 through the middle, so it can be locked to- 

 gether again, making a sheet about that size. 

 Anober sheet will make top and bottom, 

 and have a piece left. 



The cost of the materials will be now, 

 about 18c, which leaves 7c for making and 

 profit. These, too, must be made by the 

 piece, or you will be in danger of having 

 them cost more than you get for them, if 

 sold at 25c 



The 50 lb. can is made of a sheet and a half 

 of the 14x20 tin. This would make it 14 in- 

 ches high, and 10 in diameter. Just 2i sheets 

 of tin will make the whole, and the cost will 

 be — say 30c for the materials and 10c for 

 the work. This can be sold for 50c, with- 

 out very much trouble. 



The 100 lb. can has a bottom as large as 

 you can make out of the above sheets ; there- 

 fore it will take 3 sheets standing perpendic- 

 ularly, to make the sides. As this can has a 

 slanting top, we will cut the 3 sheets off at 

 17| inches, and put on a top like that shown 

 in the catalogue. About 5 sheets will be re- 

 quired, and we shall need to take the better 

 quality of tin, at lie per sheet. Perhaps all 

 the materials will cost 60c, and 20 more will 

 pay for the making, if you order of your tin- 

 ner a dozen cans at a time. 





A MITER BOX FOR THOSE WHO MAKE 

 HIVES BY HANO. 



f ha 



TWO-QUART HONEY FAIL. 



S f have to make my hives by hand, I have 

 JH\ made a miter box, which I find very conven- 

 ' ient. I believe you could sell a good many, if 

 you would keep them on hand. I take 2 pieces 

 about 16 in. long, or rather 4 pieces I should say, 2 

 of them 4 in. wide, and the other two 8 in. wide, and 

 nail them to a piece of 2x1. It has just occurred to 

 me that I cannot describe it so that you would un- 

 derstand it, and will therefore make a small model 

 and enclose it. Wm. Oldroyd. 



Columbus. O., Dec. 6, 1879. 



OLDROYD S MITER-BOX. 



Many thanks, friend O. Your idea is one 

 I have often thought of, but you have ac- 

 complished the desired result very cheaply, 

 and your device for wedging the board up so 

 that it is a fixture is excellent. By having 

 such a machine made long enough, it can be 

 arranged with the necessary stops to cut the 

 boards exactly right, without any measuring. 

 With a good saw, in good order, such a ma- 

 chine may not be so very much behind a foot- 

 power saw, for many kinds of work. 



