and I've always prac- 

 ticed filling them full 

 of foundation. So I 

 have produced a good 

 many tons of sections 

 with full sheets of 

 foundation, and / 

 think they were "real- 

 ly good." At the 

 World's Fair in Chica- 

 go they took a first 

 premium. I agree, 

 however, with Mr. 

 Greiner that the final 

 test ought to be 

 whether the consum- 

 er thinks they are 

 really good. If the 

 grocer, for a quarter 

 of a centu^-y, sells the 

 same brand of honey 

 to his customers he 

 ought to know from 

 them what they think 

 of it, and in turn the 

 jobber ought to learn 

 from the grocers. 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Oct. 1 



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HULL'S BEE-CELLAR, BUILT IN A SIDE-HILL; CAPAl. 1 



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REAR VIEW OF HULL'S BEE-CELLAR. 



usual way I'm not sure 

 I could tell, after the 

 honey is in my mouth, 

 whether there is foun- 

 dation in it or not. 

 Certainly, if I were 

 producing section 

 honey for my own ta- 

 ble, with no thought of 

 selling an ounce, I 

 would want the sec- 

 tions filled with foun- 

 dation. 



Mr. Greiner admits 

 the use of a starter of 

 foundation, without 

 specifying the size of 

 the starter. Certainly 

 the starter can not 

 half fill the section. 



Now if, after that length of time, the jobber 

 thinks it advisable to send around to his 

 customers a printed card saying that a 

 shipment of Dr. Miller's honey has arrived, 

 is not that pretty strong evidence that the 

 consumer thinks the honey is all right? 



After all, what great thing is there to ob- 

 ject to? People eat honey and wax (in the 

 form of comb honey) in preference to eating 

 it pure; at any rate, so many of them prefer 

 the wax with the honey that the price of the 

 wax and honey is much higher than that of 

 the pure honey in the extracted form. If 

 the wax that is put in by the bees when left 

 entirely to their own devices is accepted as 

 all right, why should such serious objection 

 be made to a slight addition of precisely the 

 same material? 



I am free to confess that, for some pur- 

 poses, as in hot drinks, I would rather have 

 no wax; but when eating comb honey in the 



TKUNT VIEW OF HULL'S BEE-CELLAR. 

 Ten inches of sawdust cover the ceiling of the bee- 

 room. 



