1909 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



239 



9. J. L. Byer, Mt. Joy, Ont.; Ontirio, York, Victoria, Dur- 

 ham. 



10. Warrineton Scott. Wooler, Ont.; Peterboro, Northumber- 

 land, Hastines, Prince Edward. 



11. A. A. Kerrier, Renfrew, Ont.; Renfrew, Lanark, Carleton. 



12. D. L. McNaughton, St. Raphael, West, Ont.; Russel, 

 Prescott, Glengarry. 



1?. M. B. Holmes, .Athens, Ont.; Lenox, .■\ddineton, Fron- 

 lenac, Leeds. 



14. Himer Burke, Highland Creek, Ont.; Grenville, Dund.ts, 

 Cornwall. 



SHIPPING-CASES OF CORRUGATED 

 PAPER. 



A Lighter, Stronger, Cheaper Case than 



One Made of Wood; How to Avoid 



all Loss of Comb Honey by 



Breakage. 



BY J. E. CRANE. 



Some three or four years ago we began selling 

 honey direct to retail dealers and consumers. 

 One of the first things that we learned was the 

 necessity of getting our goods to our customers 

 without breakage — especially comb honey ship- 

 ped in small wooden cases. To be sure, we 

 could pack tv\o or three or more of these cases in a 

 larger box protected by straw or excelsior; but 

 this increased the cost of packing as well as the 



freight - bills, 

 to say nothing 

 of the large 

 amount of ex- 

 tra work — un- 

 necessary work 

 it seemed to 

 us. If some 

 sort o f case 

 could be made, 

 not too expen- 

 sive, thatwould 

 carry comb 

 honey with 

 comparative 

 safety, it seem- 

 ed to me it 

 would be a de- 

 cided improve- 

 ment. 



For several 

 years I had no- 

 ticed that cor- 

 rugated paper 

 was somewhat 

 elastic, and we 

 began using it 

 in the bottom 



crane's corrugated-paper SHIPPING-CASES. 



A rectangular frame is completely covered by the telescoping top and bottom 

 fhich meet in the middle. The inside is divided by cross-pieces as shown below. 



INSIDE_OF CRANE S CORRUGATED-PAPER SHIPPING-CASE. 



It has been found that comb honey can be shipped in these cases, practically 

 rithoat breakage. 



NO AMOUNT OF POUNDING ON 

 THE FLAT SIDE INJURES 

 THE HONEY. 



of our wooden cases, and later, to 

 some extent, with cellular-paper 

 partitions. These were illustrated 

 and described in Gleanings for 

 December 15, 1905; but they did 

 not satisfy me, as I had a strong 

 desire for something with sufficient 

 resiliency to carry comb honey as 

 sifely as when packed in extra cases 

 with hay or straw, for I had found 

 a wooden case quite too rigid, even 

 when lined with cellular paper, to 

 say nothing of the extra expense. 

 A fesv months later, when in Bos- 

 ton I found that Blake, Scott & 

 Lee were shipping out single cases 

 of honey packed in a crate of hay 

 to prevent breakage, and for this the 

 purchasers were paying 10 cts. ex- 

 tra I found later, when in New 

 York, that extra cases were being 

 used for the same purpose also. 



Altera good deal of study I made 

 up my mind that nothing was like- 

 ly to prove more satisfactory than a 

 complete case of cellular paper pro- 

 vided one could be made strong 

 enough to stand up under the 

 weight of honey it would have to 

 carry and the rough,usage it would 

 get. After studying over the sub- 



