THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Mr. A. A. Collier— Give bees room and 

 they woultl make honey— a flour barrel could 

 be filled, etc. 



" MARKETING HONEY." 



Mr. P. P. Collier said he had had no time 

 to prepare. The subject was of vast im- 

 portance; indeed, one that interested every 

 producer. Honey was, to some extent, as 

 other products of the farm— governed by 

 supply and demand; but this season did not 

 promise to be an average. California was 

 almost a failure. Other localities reported 

 had, and I don't see why we cannot sell at 

 good figures. It is many times the case 

 that large cities are overstocked with honey 

 while the home market is good. It Is some- 

 times the case that an inferior, green honey 

 is thrown upon the market, thereby damag- 

 ing the sale of good. I would strongly in- 

 sist that this Association put none but the 

 best, ripened honey on the market, and de- 

 mand a living price. We don't believe in 

 monopolies, but the mercantile world— the 

 mechanical and all other branches of busi- 

 ness organize for the sale of their wares, 

 and why not we? If some of us sell at low 

 figures, it debars the sale of others at better 

 prices, and I do urge a unanimous etfort to 

 secure a home market and at fair prices. I 

 read from various reports, that this one sold 

 all liis honey at 22 cents, one sold at 20 cents, 

 another at 25 cents, and still another at 18 

 cents. Now I just had the pleasure of see- 

 ing together honey from four different 

 States. Since that time I have seen honey 

 from this State, and must say we produce as 

 good or better honey here as anywhere. 



Dr. Larch— Open up a honey market, ap- 

 point a connnittee to co-operate with deal- 

 ers, and to search out and report the best 

 market. 



Mr. Trimble asked the weight of honey. 



Mr. P. P. Collier said there was a differ- 

 ence; early and white clover weigh about 

 11>8 pounds, while Spanish needle would 

 weigh 12 to 12)^ pounds. 



Mr. Sallee— The questions were very im- 

 portant. Some produced honey for home 

 use; but the majority produced it for the 

 dollars and cents. lie found it difficult to 

 sell when syrups could be bought at 50 cents. 



Mr. Bane— Analyze the various sprup* 

 and molasses, and thus prove the superiority 

 of honey over them, for they were unclean 

 and unhealthy. 



Rev. W. W. Trimble thought this was a 

 move in the right direction, and made a mo- 

 tion for a committee on selling of honey, 

 whereupon P. P. Collier, Mr. John Sallee 

 and F. P. Bane were appointed. 



Mr. Sallee — Convince the people of the 

 superiority of honey over molasses and the 

 difficulty would be removed. He had sold 

 at 25, 20 and 15 cents. 



Mr. A. A. Allen thought barrels were 

 preferable. Dr. Allen used them, and had 

 no trouble in selling at 15 to 18 cents. 



Dr. Larch— I use half barrels; they suited 

 the market much better than larger ones. 



Mr. Parker, a honey dealer of Illinois, 

 had better success with half barrels than 

 larger ones. He retailed at 25 cents. He 

 said the people of Pike county, Illinois, 

 could not believe that 5,000 pounds of honey 

 could be produced on our farms— all such 

 was " made honey." 



Mr. Bane— Quinby carried all his, and his 

 neighbor's honey, to market; and never 

 failed to find a market. 



Mr. Sallee said he sold his box honey at 

 18 cents, while his neighbors sold strained 

 and squeezed at 12)^ that was very inferior 

 to extracted. 



Mr. P. P. Collier— There is as much differ- 

 ence between strained and extracted as 

 there was between good syrup and bad 

 sorghum. 



Mr. Trimble thought a grading committee 

 would be of advantage to sellers. 



Mi\ Sallee — Let honey get ripe before ex- 

 tracting; let it set open; draw off from the 

 bottom to can it. 



President— Some one had suggested to 

 hold honey until there was a good market, 

 but he opposed it. He said he shipped two 

 barrels to Mr. Coleman, St. Louis; held it 

 over, and one barrel spoiled; the other he 

 ordered back to feed on; it had lost its 

 flavor, etc. 



Mr. A. A. Collier asked if it was in new 

 barrels? 



The President said it was in old molasses 

 barrels. 



Mr. Collier thought this was the trouble, 

 for new barrels would keep honey much 

 better than old ones. 



Mr. Trimble asked If extracted honey 

 would keep as well as capped? 



Mr. Sallee said if it was ripe it would keep 

 as well. 



Mr. Trimble— Would honey granulate un- 

 der all circumstances? 



Mr. Sallee said pure honey would. 



Mr. Trimble had two boxes that did not 

 granulate. 



Mr. Sallee said he mightlbe mistaken but 

 believed he was right. 



Dr. Larch said he had warmed up honey 

 in comb to extract, and found much grainefl 

 honey in the cells. 



Mr. Smith asked if there was any way to 

 keep honey from granulating? 



Dr. Larch— If kept at even temperature it 

 would granlate but little. 



Mr. A. A. Collier— Keeping it in a cellar 

 would prevent granulation. 



HONEY DEW. 



Mr. Sallee gave his opinion of it, though 

 he was not fully satisfied as to its origin. 



Dr. Larch— Bees cannot gather it after it 

 dries. 



Mr. Sallee said honey gathered from this 

 source did not sell well. 



Mr. Fish read from Prof. Cook showing it 

 to be a real Honey Dew. 



Mr. P. P. Collier— Had seen it very abun- 

 dant in Ky., had seen Dr. Allen's bees gath- 

 ering it from the oaks, had eaten the honey, 

 pronounced it dark, but fair-flavored, not so 

 good as other honey. During a drouth, 

 about the 1st of July, he had seen it very 

 abundant, and believed it to be really a 

 Honey Dew. 



Mr. S. Riley did not believe the bees gath- 

 ered it. 



Dr. Larch thought they did. 



Mr. R. Sallee— Bees gather something from 

 the oaks, did not know what. 



Mr. F. P. Bane— It was a deposit of an in- 

 sect, the Aphides. 



Mr. Sallee— Had seen it very abundant 

 when a boy. 



President— By a careful investigation 

 found that the Aphides deposit it, had seen 

 it fall from the insect while playing, had on 

 hand at one time 1,000 pounds from it, but 

 did not sell well. 



Mr. J. Sallee— Believed it to be real Dew, 

 and that the insects were drawn to it from 



