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40th YEAR 



CHICAGO, ILL,, JULY 12, 1900, 



No, 28. 



Packag-es for Shipping Extracted Honey. 



Written for the Wisconsin Convention at Madison, Feb. 7 and 8, 19(;iO. 

 BY A. G. WILSON. 



MY experience in shipping and selling honey in barrels 

 and kits has been quite satisfactory. 

 For the past 9 years I have produced and sold, 

 some seasons, over 20,000 pounds in the above-named pack- 

 ages, which reacht its destination in good order, except 

 in two instances, where one barrel and one kit evidently 

 had been broken open and robbed of part of their contents. 



I use 32-gallon basswood barrels, steel hoopt, each hold- 

 ing 350 pounds of honey. The kits are manufactured for 

 holding jelly, but are very convenient and durable for 

 honey, each holding 3314 pounds. I scarcely ever have a 

 package leak. 



The barrels are very convenient to handle about the ex- 

 tracting-house, also to load into the wagon, and on the rail- 

 road platform. One is not compelled to do much lifting, as 

 they can be rolled quite easily. 



The kits are very nice to handle, and are shipt 4th class, 

 the same as barrels ; they are also the best selling package 

 I have ever used. 



I have never met with an opportunity to sell my honey 

 for a greater price put up in 60-pound tin cans than in bar- 

 rels. The cost of storage for 100 pounds of honey in barrels 

 is 24 cents ; in kits, 34 cents ; in 60- 

 pound tin cans, 75 cents. 



I am not in any way interested 

 in the manufacture or sale of any of 

 the above-mentioned packages. 



Vernon Co., Wis. 



[This picture shows one of Mr. 

 Wilson's apiaries that contains 120 

 colonies, a workhouse 12x12 feet, and 

 a bee-cellar with walls and ceiling 3 

 feet thick, made of sand, with a board 

 roof. The hand-cart has springs 

 under the corners of a platform — a 

 good cart to carry combs on. The 

 hives in this apiary are set in pairs, 

 so that one acts as a bench to put 

 tools on while working with the 

 others. Mr. Wilson is one of Wis- 

 consin's best and largest bee-keep- 

 ers. — Editor.] 



Bee-KeepeFs' Exchang-e— California's Experience 



BY PROF. A. J. COOK. 



I AM glad to note that there is increast attention being 

 given to the subject of co-operation among apiarists. I 

 was especially glad to read an article in the American 

 Bee Journal from Mr. C. A. Hatch, who is one of our ablest 

 men, and has had a broad experience, not only in apicul- 

 ture, but also in general farming. He has also had wide 

 observation, and is a close student of all such lines, and 

 therefore his opinion and advice are well worth attention. 



There can be no question about the value of co-opera- 

 tive effort in all lines of agriculture. It has been said that 

 ten men can grow agricultural products successfully where 

 but one can market well. There is no doubt much of truth 

 in this, and no doubt the great handicap to the whole field 

 of agriculture is the fact of isolation and the inability of 

 its patrons to work together. All other businesses are able 

 to combine and act as a unit. This is largely true in all 

 other manual labor classes, and thus the success and value 

 of the labor unions. The remark of one of the leaders of 

 the labor union, recently made before a committee of Con- 

 gress investigating trusts, to the effect that they feared not 

 the trusts if they themselves could only be thoroly organ- 

 ized, is certainly significant. 



I think there is no subject that better deserves atten- 

 tion of all agriculturists in every line of production than 

 that of acting together. Their product is something that 

 must be had, and were they coinbined as are the railroads 

 and business men in manufacturing and commerce, they 

 would certainly have a very different report to make in re- 

 gard to their success and the profits of their business. I 

 have already referred to isolation. This makes it very dif- 

 ficult for farmers to become acquainted and to learn the 

 benefit of the union effort. Thus the farmers are more or 



Otu uj the Apiaries of Mr. A. G. Wilson, of Vernon Co., Wis. 



