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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Dec. 10. 1903. 



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FROM MANY FIELDS 



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Selling Honey in a Home Market. 



Having had considerable experience selling 

 honey to the consumer, I write for the bene- 

 fit of beginners. I have been producing and 

 selling honey, both comb aud extracted, in 

 Page County, since 1877. and have shipped 

 very little to the wholesale houses. I find the 

 home market better. Of course we cannot 

 expect to sell the whole crop at once, but I 

 frequently sell as much as a hundred pounds 

 of extracted honey at a time to a consumer, 

 but a dollar's worth of comb honey is as much 

 as can usually be sold to the consumer at one 

 time. 



Considerable comb honey can be placed 

 with the grocers and will lessen cash outlay 

 for provisions, at least it is advisable to keep 

 them supplied with what they can use. f 

 think it is a good plan to keep honey on hand 

 at all times, as I have more call and get better 

 prices after others have sold out, and in off- 

 years I produce about two pounds of extracted 

 to one of comb, and find the production of ex- 

 tracted much more satisfactory than comb. 



I have tried selling from house to house, on 

 the sample plan, and have succeeded very 

 well, but as I do not like canvassing I do not 

 resort to this p'an excepting when a large 

 crop makes it necessary to prevent one crop 

 lapping over another; this has seldom been 

 the case. I have some customers in other 

 States who order from 50 to 100 pounds for 

 home use, when I can sell at y or 10 cents per 

 pound. 



This has been the most favorable season we 

 have had for several years; it gave me over 

 5000 pounds from a start of 50 colonies in the 

 spring, and 20 bought during the season, and 

 run largely for queen-rearing. 



I have put 126 colonies into cellars, 35 of 

 them queen-rearing colonies on small combs, 

 with 31 colonies packed in douljle-wall hives 

 on the summer stands. The colony on scales 

 gave 265 pounds of extracted honey for the 

 season. The best day was July S, which gave 

 15 pounds net gain for 24 hours ; to make this 

 gain they must have carried over 20 pounds, 

 as 1 find a shrinkage of 3 or 4 pounds during 

 the night after a good day's work. 



J. L. Strong. 



Page Co., Iowa, Nov. 26. 



CastoF-Oil and Honey— Peddling. 



I notice the editor desires the bee-keepers 

 to tell the new kinks they have learned. I 

 learned one just the other day, when 1 was 

 peddling honey. A man said he tried to get 

 one of his little boys to take castor-oil, and he 

 could not get it down him. He then mixed it 

 with honey, and had no more trouble. How 

 easy 1 I wish we could fix up all our troubles 

 and make them sweet as honey. 



I suppose most bee-keepers have a cloth 

 over the top of the hive, to keep the bees from 

 sticking the cover fast, and they are always 

 eating it full of holes, Mine don't. I use 

 mostly pieces of gunny-sacks, but old ingrain 

 carpet without any holes is dandy. Cut your 

 pieces to fit, then give each piece a good coat 

 of lard — old, rancid lard is as good as any. 

 The bees will coat it over with glueand never 

 gnaw a hole in it. Warranted; patent not ap- 

 plied for. 



I had 1500 pounds of extracted honey and 

 300 pounds of comb honey from 23 colonies, 

 spring count, and increased to 32 colonies. 



I have been in business here only 2 years. I 

 learned the trade in the West, where I bad no 

 trouble at all to keep the bees from swarming. 

 I think it must have been the cool nights; 

 here it is altogether diflerent, but I think I 

 can keep the most of it down. 



I peddle out all ray honey. The best way I 

 have found to peddle extracted honey is to 

 have a heavy galvanized-iron can that will 

 hold 12 or 15 gallons (that would be 144 or bSO 

 pounds of honey), with a pair of drop handles 

 riveted to the sides near the top, the cover to 

 fit over the lop and drop down about 2 inches 

 with a handle to the top of it. Then getting 



4 Percent Discount During December I 



Send for our List, and order now. Take advanta^re of this discount, 

 hand ready for use. 



JUST TPIIl^IC OF IT ! 



' goods 



G. B. LEWIS CO., Manufacturers' of Bee-Keepers' Supplies, 



WATERTOWN. WISCONSIN, U.S.A. 



WANTED ! Fancy Comb Honey I 



In No-drip shipping-cases. Also extracted, 

 in barrels or cans. Mail samples and quote 

 your best price delivered Cincinnati. 



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S The FredW^Muth Co,, ''''""' c"incinnati,ohio. H 



REMOVAL NOTICE. 



We wisii to advise our friends that on and after Jan. 1st we shall be 

 located in our new 3-story building, 521 Monroe Street, where we shall 

 keep on hand at all times the largest stock of 



Poultry and Bee- Keepers' Supplies in the West. 



Remember, we handle ROOT'S GOODS exclusively, and with the low 

 freight rates, and the 4 percent discount which we offerduring- December, 

 enables Toledo to excel all other shipping points. Thanking you for past 

 favors, and soliciting a continuance of the same, we remain. 

 Yours truly, 



GRIGGS BROS., 521 Monroe St., TOLEDO, OHIO. 



Free Catalog. Ask for i*. 



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TO START YOU IN BUSINESS 



We will preBont you with the first 85 you 



take in to start you in a good payinp husi 



Send 10 cents (or full line of Bumplei 



and directdone how to begin. 



DKAPER PUBLlStUNO CO., Cblugo, Ilia. 



HONEY=JARS. 



I can sell you a White Glass Honey-Jar, hold- 

 idg- IS ounces of honey, at J4 00 per gcos". Also 

 the standard square^ one-pound Jar at $4.50 per 

 gross. Sample of either Jar by mail on receipt 

 of 10 cents f c r postage. 



J. H. m. COOK, Bee-Keepers' Supplies 



62CortlandtSt., NEW YORK CITY. 



41Atf Please mention the Bee Journal. 



Reduced Rate for Christmas and 

 New Year Holidays. 



The Nickel Plate Road will sell tick- 

 ets Dec. 24, 25 and 31, 1903, and Jan. 1, 

 1004, at rate of a fare and a third for 

 the round-trip, within distances of ISO 

 miles, good returning to and including 

 Jan. 4, 1904. Individual Club Meals, 

 ranging in price from 35 cents to $1.00, 

 served in dining cars. No excess fare 

 charged on any train on Nickel Plate 

 Road. Chicago City Ticket Offices, 111 

 Adams St., and Auditorium Annex. 

 Depot, La Salle and Van Buren Sts., 

 on the Elevated Loop. 'Phone Central 

 2057. 30— 49A4t 



Let me SELL or BUY your 



HONEY 



If you have some to offer, mail sample with lowest price expected, delivered Cinciuaati. 



I ♦^ IF IN NEED ^ 



K State quantity and kind wanted, and I will quote you price. I do business on the cash 

 K basis, in buying or selling. 



S Full stock of Bee-Supplies, the best made. Root's Goods 

 § at their factory prices. SEEDS of Houey-plants. 



I C. H. W. WEBER LTriSu'-T^^^^'^-^"^^ 



g 2146=48 Central Ave., CINCINNATI, OHIO. 



Order Your Bee'Syppiles Now 



R. H. 



While we can serve you 

 prompt, and get them at 

 bottom prices. 



SCHMIDT CO., Sheboygan, Wis. 



