GLKANIJSG8 IN BEE CULTUKE 



fit, consisting of a can perhaps two feet in 

 diametei" and three feet high, with a gate 

 or faucet at the bottom, from which hot 

 water may be drawn as it is needed. There 

 is no danger of drawing off the wax, for it 

 is not necessary to lower the level of the 

 contents of the can to the danger-point. 

 In this way the hot water does not run out 

 all the time, but only as needed, and there 

 are no tubes to become filled up with cold 

 wax if one happens to forget. — Ed.] 



CUTTING GRANULA TED H ONEY FOR MARKET 



Some Further Results of the Plan as Practiced in 

 New Zealand 



BY JAMES ALLAN 



[This article, by an oversight, was held over two 

 years before being published. The subject matter is 

 still of interest, however, for we believe there has 

 never been as much interest shown in marketing 

 granulated honey as at the present time. We regard 

 our contributer's plan as being a most practical one. 

 —Ed.] 



On page 707, Nov. 15, 1909, appeared an 

 article by me on the " pat " system of pre- 

 paring extracted honey for the market. The 

 article explains the methods adopted, and 

 also gave the results when the honey was 

 IDlaced on the market. However, no notice 

 of the system has been taken in any subse- 

 quent issue of your paper so far as I can 

 see, and I am led to the conclusion that 

 your readers do not recognize any value in 

 it. Perhaps they are right; but it will not 

 do any hai-m. On the contrary, it may do 

 some good if I give another season's expe- 

 rience along the same line. 



In 1910 (a poor season) my honey crop 

 was 5700 lbs. of extracted honey. Of this 

 5000 lbs. were put up in y2-lb. pats and 

 sent to an agent for sale, and in less than 

 a week I got his sale note to let me know 

 that it had realized 3 shillings per dozen or 

 pence per lb. Now, just a week before 

 sending this agent my honey I was in his 

 store and saw tons of honey in 60-lb. cans, 

 just the same quality as mine, waiting for 

 a buyer to come along and take it at 3% 

 pence per lb. Now, what I claim is this: 

 That my honey sold quicker, realized 50 per 

 cent better value, and will reach a satisfied 

 consumer quicker also; all because of the 

 method of putting it up. While the differ- 

 ence in the cost of the packages is very 

 small, at our prices the 60-lb. cans and 

 shipping cases required would have cost me 

 about $34.00, while the cost of wrapping 

 papers (double wrapping each 1/2 lb.), and 

 shipping cases, was actually $46.74. The 

 time required to wrap and fix for market 

 the 5000 lbs. would be about 41/2 days for 

 myself and two girls. 



They say the dollar is what appeals to an 



American heart. I don't know but it should 

 surely make an American look into the busi- 

 ness when I say that the result of the pat 

 system was to give me $200, or, in our 

 money, £40 more for 5000 lbs. of honey 

 than I otherwise would have received. 



I enclose with this a photo of an exhibit 

 we sent to a local winter show. In it the 

 pats have a prominent place. The center 

 block is 100 lbs., and shows the tin slides. 

 Each of the divisions, when cut, gives 25 

 V2-lb. pats. Quite a number of others are 

 adopting this method here, and we think it 

 has a future before it. 



Wyndham, Southland, N. Z., June 23, '10. 



CATTLE AND HORSES LIKE SWEET CLOVER 

 THE FIRST TIME THEY SEE IT 



BY HAJRRY D. HOVFLAND 



The engraving shows our steers eating 

 their first feed of sweet-clover hay. It is 

 difficult to see in the picture what they were 

 eating; and as it was tlu"own in on top of 

 cornstalks, which are light-colored, they 

 show up better than the hay. 



During the fall they ran on an oats stub- . 

 ble with red clover in it, and a strip of 

 about one acre of sweet clover. We could 

 not see but that they fed as much on tlie 

 sweet clover as on the red in proportion to 

 the amount ; but as it grew up taller and 

 coarser than the red they did not feed it 

 down as short. 



We fed some of the hay to our horses 

 last fall, and thought that they liked it 

 better than timothy. Some of these horses 

 I know had never eaten sweet clover of any 

 kind; for until just recently we have been 

 particular not to let it grow on our farm, 

 as we did not know its value, and consid- 

 ered it a nuisance. 



Last spring we mixed sweet and red clo- 

 ver seed together, and sowed a narrow stri]j 

 of the oat-field with it. On the lower ground 

 the sweet clover made a luxuriant growth 

 after the oats were cut; but the red clover 

 didn't make as much growth as where there 

 was no sweet clover with it. On the high 

 gTound in this strip the sweet clover made 

 a growth of only a few inches, while the red 

 grew a little taller. Upon testing the soil 

 we found that there was very little or no 

 acid in the low ground, while the liigli 

 ground showed much acidity. From this 

 experience we conclude that sweet clover 

 requires more lime in the soil than red clo- 

 ver. We are covering a 30-acre field with 

 two tons of ground limestone per acre on 

 which we will sow an early variety of oats 

 and sweet clover this spring. 



Gardner, 111., Feb. 22. 



