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you 6 cents per pound for it." I wrote 

 back that we did not have to sell Ne- 

 braska honey for any 6 cents per pound, 

 and that we did not produce that kind. 

 A day or two later a telegram came to 

 our station addressed to myself, or to 

 some honey-dealer, and it was given to 

 a merchant in town, as I live just out- 

 side of the town, offering him honey for 

 10 cents, saying that it was Nebraska 

 honey. The man asked me if I knew 

 this man In Indiana that is offering 

 Nebraska honey for 10 cents. I said to 

 him, " You take all the honey you can 

 get at 10 cents, but it must be home- 

 grown Nebraska honey, and your county 

 honey at that." And he did so, and in a 

 day or two he had a reply to that, and 

 the man said that he could not supply 

 the honey. We put our honey up in the 

 neatest packages we know of, and we 

 demand good prices, and we get them. 

 We have no surplus to ship to your East- 

 ern markets at those low prices. 



H. C. Nichols — I have had some ex- 

 perience in shipping honey to commis- 

 sion men. I have shipped to Kansas 

 City, Chicago and New York, and it was 

 to men that advertised in the American 

 Bee Journal or Gleanings. I shipped 

 once to a man in Water Street, Chicago, 

 and did not hear anything from it for a 

 long time. I finally wrote to Mr. New- 

 man, asking about such a man. I 

 shipped some to Kansas City. I wrote 

 to him asking what honey was worth, 

 and he said it was worth 16 cents. I 

 shipped it, and did not hear from it for 

 a long time, and one . day I happened to 

 be down there and thought I would look 

 around. I looked around before I said 

 anything, and I found my honey with 

 honey piled all around it, and there it 

 had laid, and they had sold what came 

 first. In shipping it, it was badly broken 

 up and wasted. I try to create a home 

 market, and sell a great deal to the 

 home trade. I would rather take a little 

 less price for it, for I know I will sell a 

 great deal of honey in that way. 



The Q,uestion-Boz. 



The question-box was then taken up, 

 and the following questions discussed : 



Extracted-Honey Packagesl 



Question No. 1. — " What is the most 

 desirable honey-package ?" 



F. H. Richarson — I haven't much to 

 say. I use for my extracted honey a 

 sloping tin pail neatly labeled, on ac- 

 count of its being very convenient to 

 handle, and by proper labeling you get a 

 very neat package. 



L. D. Stilson — I run for extracted 

 honey entirely, and I put all of my 

 honey up in glass. When a customer 

 comes to get my honey lam not ashamed 

 to hold it up to the light for him to look 

 through. We use nothing but glass. 



C. P. Dadant — I don't believe in that. 

 Pure honey will granulate, and then you 

 can't look through it. 



Mr. Stilson — Whenever we put it up 

 for customers, we put it in tin or wood. 

 We never put it up for market until it is 

 ready to be used. 



Dr. Miller — There is no way in which 

 honey looks so nice as in glass. Honey 

 will granulate, and you will have to 

 teach your customers that it is honey 

 that can be depended upon, and then 

 you will not have so much trouble with it. 



J. T. Calvert — It is said that the sage 

 honey of California must granulate to 

 show that it is pure. I simply raise the 

 question. 



Dr. T. J. Conry— Alfalfa honey will 

 granulate in a week. 



W. L. Porter — I have used a tin pail, 

 and have used a great many thousands of 

 them in the last few years in Denver. 

 We find that glass packages have a 

 greater demand than the tin. I have a 

 package here that I brought out of my 

 stock, and that package has some ad- 

 vantages. We can put it in the stores 

 to sell to our cumstomers, and we can 

 oflfer 5 cents for the jar. If it is re- 

 turned it is worth that to us, and if it 

 does not come back it is worth that to 

 the customer who gets it. I have used 

 the square jars and the round jars, but 

 I find that the square jar is not as val- 

 uable as the round one when the honey 

 is used. 



Mr. Richardson — Some of you say that 

 all pure honey will granulate. I say 

 that it won't. I have some honey that I 

 have set out for two years, and last win- 

 ter it was set out on the porch roof when 

 the thermometer was 15° below zero, 

 and I said to myself, " Now I will have 

 some candied honey ;" but when I came 

 to get it there was no more sugar in it 

 than when it came out of the hive. I do 

 not put my honey in tin pails because I 

 am ashamed of it, but I can't sell glass 

 packages under any consideration. I 

 bought some glass packages, and I had 

 to almost give them away. I said to the 

 people, "I thought you would like this 

 glass package;" and they would say to 

 me, "You can't sell me that honey for 

 5 cents a pound. We have had some of 

 the honey that is put up in glass, and 

 have found it always adulterated honey." 

 I can't sell honey in glass packages at 

 all ; they won't have it. They have 



