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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 



taking- hold of the stem, and striking it a hard i-ap 

 in my hand I could see the nectar splash right out 

 into my hand. D. E. Bhubaker. 



Maxwell. Story Co., la., July 14, 1885. 



Friend B., if I understand you correctly, 

 in your experience the perforated zinc, as 

 furnished by D. A. Jones, restrains the queen 

 as well as the drones. Am I correctV 



AIDS FOH RETAILING HONEY. 



SOMETHING FURTHER IN REGARD TO THE STUR- 

 WOLD HONEY SHOWCASES. 



;;^XTE are happy to inform our friends, 

 llAi^ that, after considerable correspon- 

 3Imi deuce with show-case manufacturers, 

 ■"■-*■ we have finally succeeded in getting 

 a glass show-case made, expressly 

 for showing packages of honey for retailing, 

 like the one figured in Gleanings, page 11, 

 1884, and illustrated in the A B C book, page 

 63. We are pleased and surprised to find 

 that we have found a firm who will furnish 

 them so that we are enabled to supply our 

 customers and beo-friends at an even 'S5. 00. 

 Purthermore, the manufacturers agree to 

 deliver them free of breakage. This latter 

 item is one of considerable moment. That 

 you may know lietter what you are going to 

 get, we give cut below. 



STlIRWOLn'S SH()W-( A.si; roK lUJMiV. 



If you watit your name in bronze letters, 

 similar to the way it is shown in the cut, the 

 price will be 40 c'euts additional. Theca.se 

 is 2i feet high, aud lU inclies square, outside 

 measure, top aud bottom. The sheets of 

 glass of \vlii('h it is made, are ll2 x 2(>. The 

 case MS \\vm\v above is a little tall for its otli- 

 er dimensions, and we have got the man- 



ufacturers to give us figures on one using 

 sheets of glass 16 inches wide— tlie length 

 as above, and the price will be SI. 00 more. 

 The above case is to be set up in any grocery, 

 drug-store, or other place of business where 

 you wish your honey exhibited or sold. The 

 show-cases will be shipped from (^uincy. 111. 



Of late, we have been doing a nice little 

 trade in comb honey in sections, by taidng 

 it around our town in a wagon. The sec- 

 tions are Simplicity size, 7 to the foot, Iled- 

 don's thickness, used without separators. 

 AVe have sold hundreds of them, and they 

 are sufficiently regular so they go into our 

 pasteboard boxes without any trouble. Tlie 

 pasteboard boxes are like 

 this. For prices, see cov- 

 er to our issue of June 1.5. 

 Of course, these sections 

 do not hold a pound of 

 honey. j 



J^efore the wagon starts i 

 out in the morning, one 

 of our girls weighs the '^ 

 section, slips it into the ' 

 pasteboard box case, and 

 marks on the cover the price. We get IS cts. 

 l>er pound for the lumey, case included, and 

 they weigh so as to generally bring the price 

 at about 16 or 17 cents. "^We have a new 

 light spring wa^on, lettered on one side, 

 " Home of the IIoney-Bees.'' Three hands 

 are needed to work to advantage. Two of 

 them may be active boys. One drives while 

 the other two take each one a side of the 

 street, calling at every house, and slipping 

 out a section of honey to show how nice it is. 

 They sell at almost every house. Even 

 though honey is retailed at the groceries at 

 1.5 cents per lb., we find little trouble in get- 

 ting IS for these small neat packages. We 

 propose to sell extracted honey in the same 

 way ; but just now it does not seem to take 

 as well as the nice comb honey. One reason 

 for trying this experiment w^as to see how 

 much honey could be sold in this way ; and 

 it is my opinion that tons and tons 'can be 

 sold by going to villages, towns, and cities. 



A FOUL SCANDAL IN REGARD TO OUR 

 INDUSTRY. 



ACCUSING UEE-KEEPEKS OF FEEDING GL,UCOSE, 



AND EABEEING THE PRODUCT "WHITE 



COMB HONEY." 



fUE following statement has been sent 

 us by our subscribers, north, south, 

 east, and west, aud seems to have 

 been copied by hundreds of papers, 

 and prol)ably will continue to be cop- 

 ied. We give i)Iace to it iu order tliat we 

 may better show the utter untruthfulness of 

 the whole fabrication. 



MACHINE honey; HOW A .SHARP MICHIGAN APIA- 

 lUST I1.\S EDUCATED HIS BEES. 



A Wayiu' County farnicr, says tlio Detroit Frrc 

 Prox, has sucfoodcd in carninj; a l)lace in history 

 alony with llie Coiiiu'cticut man wtio invented 

 wofxlcii iMitiiurs. He li\cs lictwoen Detroit and 

 Dearliorii, on Miiliijian Aveiui(>, in a vine-covered 

 cottaye a little wa,\ liaik from the road. On the 

 front Iciicc apjx'urs tlie sijin, " White-Clover Hon- 

 ey." Hack of tlu' house is an apiary with all the 

 modoi-ii in\enti()ns for the care of bees, and nearly 

 fifty hives sound with the cheerful humming ol the 

 busy liouey-nuikers. 



