MARKETING HONEY. 



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tailed at from fifteen to twenty cents, wiiile sixteen pounds of 

 the best sugar are sold for a dollar. Yet the Apiarists crowd 

 it to the markets at prices ranging as low as three cents. 

 What is lacking? Proper distribution. Instead of shipping 

 our honey to the cities, whence it will be partly shipped back 

 to our village retailers after having passed through the hands 

 of commission men, and wholesale merchants, we must culti- 

 vate home consumption. We must show our neighbors, our 

 farmers, our mechanics, at home, that our progressive meth- 

 ods enable us to furnish to them the sweetest of all sweets, at 

 nearly as low a price as syrups. The occasional depression of 

 the honey market is but temporary and its termination is only 

 a question of time. 



841. It is important, in offering honey, whether to gro- 

 cers or to consumers, to have it put up in neat and at- 

 tractive shape. Comb-honey in 

 sections weighing only a pound 

 sells best, because it is, and always 

 will be, a fancy article. 



But in putting up extracted 

 honey, a one-pound package is 

 now too small. We must encour- 

 age a consumption in which the 

 expense of packing will not ma- 

 terially advance the cost, and we 

 find that, owing to this advance 

 of cost, the one or one and-a- 

 quarter-pound package is less in 

 demand than it was a few years 

 ago. 



842. Tin is the cheapest pack- 

 age for honey, in small quantities. 

 Our favorite sizes are two and-a- 

 half -pound, five-pound, and ten- 

 pound pails. The two and-a-half- 

 pound pail is in great demand, and in the Winter of 1886-7, 



Fig. 225. 



DADANT HONiiY PAILS. 



