August, 1914. 



American l^ee Journal 



cakes open, and, behold ! we found a 

 10-pound stone in the first cake, and in 

 cutting into the other cake we found 

 the same thing. I began to lose faith 

 in bee-men. I wrote the gentleman, 

 from whom we got the wax, and he 

 came to see me. He said he had bought 

 the wax from two peddlers late one 

 evening. He paid for the two stones 

 and my faith was restored. 



Well, now, a little more about honey. 

 Until lately we have always been un- 

 favorable to more than two grades of 

 comb honey, No. 1 and No. 2, but this 

 fall we have had two cars of comb 

 honey from Colorado graded under the 

 new rules of the Colorado State Bee- 

 keepers' Association, and we were well 

 pleased with the grading. These two 

 cars were certainly graded according 

 to rules. 



A great trouble with some beekeep- 

 ers is they do not or will not comply 

 closely with the grading rules. We 

 also approve of the manner in which 

 the two cars, just mentioned, were 

 marked, as each grade is easily distin- 

 guished from the others. Each grade 

 is marked with a letter. For instance, 

 fancy was marked with a " C," No. 1 

 with an " H," and No. 2 with a " P." Of 

 course, any letter of the alphabet could 

 be used, the object of changing the 

 marking of the cases to letters being 

 very obvious. 



For instance, a producer often has a 



Brood Sows Grazing on a Sweet Clover Pasture— Farm of Frank Coverdale. 



iCourtesy of Dakota Farmer.) 



quantity of honey slightly travel stained 

 but of good weight, hardly of good 

 enough quality to grade No. 1, but cer- 

 tainly worth more than the price pre- 

 vailing at that time for the No. 2 grade 

 He cannot, conscientiously, pack and 

 grade this lot No. 1, and certainly if he 

 calls it No. 2 he will have to take the 

 lower grade price. Therefore, by mark- 



ing the cases with a letter the lot could 

 be sold strictly on its merits without 

 misrepresentation by either the ship- 

 per or commission man, and without 

 the purchaser feeling that he was pay- 

 ing too high a price for off grades. 

 The cases marked by a letter can be 

 sold with the understanding that the 

 letter either represents a grade, either 



The Bee Men in the Coverpai.e Apiary. 



