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are always thought of. There is breakage in transporta- 

 tion, and the greater the distance the greater the risk. 

 If I can load my honey into a car myself, and it goes to 

 its destination without change of cars, I do not feel very 

 anxious about it. On this account a car-load is safer 

 than a small quantity, for a full car-load may be sent al- 

 most any distance without re-shipping. If re-shipped, it 

 is not at all certain how it will be packed in a car. I 



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Fig. 100. — Sections Ready for Casing. 



once sent a lot of honey to Cincinnati, and when it ar- 

 rived at its destination, the sections were actually lying 

 on their sides ! I suppose the railroad hands who packed 

 it in the car at the last change, thought the glass was 

 safest from breaking if the case was put glass side down. 

 The strangest part about it was that I lost nothing by 

 the breakage. The dogged persistence of a German 

 consignee obliged the railroad company to pay all dam- 

 age ; for the consignee was that staunch German and 

 genial friend of bee-keepers — the late C. F. Muth. It is 



