Mr. Van Rensselaer, Ottawa. O., did not 

 favor glassing the honey. 



Tlie President said it was a very impor- 

 tant point to put on but a portion of the 

 boxes at first, in the spring. 



J. W. Benedict, Tecumseh, aslted when 

 was the time to put on the boxes? 



Dr. Southard said, when the hives were 

 full of bees, and there was honey to gather. 



The President expressed himself -in favor 

 of the light sections, and he would make 

 them to hold just a pound. He thought the 

 use of separators with the sections advisable. 



Mr. Fahenstock, of Toledo, said that he 

 would give an instance of his experience. — 

 He had observed that there was a great deal 

 in the looks of tlnngs. He had used both 

 kinds of boxes the same season, and both 

 were equally well-filled. The honey was 

 beautiful, in the wood sections, but all he 

 could get for it in the market was 13 cts.— 

 He took in his glassed boxes and sold every 

 one, before he left the store the first day, 

 readily for 20 cts. per lb, glass and all. 



Mr. Bingham, Abronia, was satisfied 

 that the small boxes would sell better in 

 the cities. He said the nearer one got to 

 penny packages, the better they would 

 suit the city trade. 



Dr. Southard, of Kalamazoo, said he used 

 small sections, but put them into a frame of 

 his own invention, and used as many 

 sections as the size of the colony would 

 warrant. He got his box stuff at the honey 

 box factory in Grand Haven. The cost of 

 each section box is about two mills. These 

 sections are 4 inches square and 2 inches 

 wide. 



Mr. Butler, Jackson, hived his swarms on 

 full comb and brood, and in 20 minutes after 

 they were hived they were at work in the 

 sections. Of the artificial comb, he used 

 that which was five cells to the inch. He 

 had never used any separator, for he didn't 

 think it necessary. 



The next subject was 



EXTRACTED HONEY. 



Prof. Cook expressed himself strongly in 

 favor of extracted honey. He preferred to 

 sell it, and could make more money by ex- 

 tracting it. He could sell for 12 centsj^ and 

 make more than he could in the comb at 

 25 cents. He gave his experience in dis- 

 posing of it, the cost of putting it up, etc. — 

 He said he would put it up in jelly cups, 

 and the cost would be about 43^ cents. He 

 would not label any honey first-class unless 

 it was first-class. They could'nt afford to 

 be dishonest in recommending their wares. 

 They must grade the honey. 



Mr. Bingham said the President had 

 spoken of labeling the honey " pure bass- 

 wood," " pure clover," etc. He tried that 

 once and got notoriety. He had some very 

 nicebasswood honey, and had labels printed 

 " pure basswood honey," took a bottle of 

 it to the editor of an Allegan paper, who, 

 after duly testing the same, gave a notice in 



, his next issue that he was in receipt of a 

 very superior article of pure basswood 

 honey, trom Mr. Bingham; and the next 

 week, one of the Detroit papers stated that 

 an Allegan genius had succeeded in making 

 honey from basswood. 



Mr. Southard, of Kalamazoo, said he was 

 growing more in favor of extracted honey. 



. He found Mason's quart cans the most 

 economical; could fill a quart can and sell it 

 for 55 cents, receiving 15 cents for liis honey, 

 and the can was always good. 



Mr. Butler, of Jackson, said that more 

 money can be made by extracting, but sales 

 are not so freely made. 



Mr. Van Rensselaer favors having an 

 extractor at once. Extracted houey sold 

 more readily than comb honey. 



Mr. Bingham, Allegan, thought not more 

 than 10 or 15 per cent, more honey could be 

 got by extracting. 



Mr. Everett, Toledo, put his honey in jelly 

 cups, and used a tin cover. It retailed very 

 nicely in Toledo. 



Dr. Southard explained the mode of ex- 

 tracting honey. 



Prof. Cook said it was not necessary to 

 wait for the bees to cap the honey. 



Mr. Thompson, Detroit, explained a cheap 

 extractor of his own manufacture. 



Mr. Bingham then read the following 

 essay on " Cheap Honey:" 



CHEAP HONEY. 



Many have been the reasons assigned for 

 the steady decline in the price of honey. 



Mr. Moore says, " the proceedings of the 

 National Society ought to be sown broad- 

 cast, especially to small bee-keepers, who 

 have but little honey. They throw their 

 honey on the market for just what they can 

 get, and in that way spoil the market for 

 large pi'oducers. 



Mr. Heddon thinks that Prof. Cook's 

 course, in the same convention, would be 

 the ruin of all the small bee-keepers; yet 

 Mr. Moore, Prof. Cook, and Mr. Heddon wish 

 to accomplish the same end, namely: — 

 Keep up the price of honey. In the matter 

 of price for honey, no standard can be fixed 

 by the conventions or associations. Bee- 

 keepers may strive to limit productions, 

 monoploize the business and look wise, but 

 that mighty force, known as the " omniver- 

 ous stomach," will be the important factor, 

 and dictate the price. 



The tendency of the honey market has 

 been entirely in the direction of the con- 

 sumer, and the producers do as others have 

 done in other things having a fancy price, — 

 namely: Shift from one expedient to 

 another, in the vain endeavor to keep up 

 the price. 



The plan now having its run, like measles 

 and wliooping-cough, is to keep up the 

 price by making the packages smaller.— 

 This plan may succeed; candy has always 

 paid a fine pi'ofit in net' packages of half 

 ounces each, at the standard price of a cent 

 per stick! 



Who is the coming man, to bring forth one 

 cent packages of honey, having tin corners, 

 and glass sides, and richly embossed? 



Don't laugh ! Nothing is ridiculous, after 

 you become accustomed to it. 



In the persuit of that once popular silver 

 dollar, men see something that they covet,. 

 but do not want to steal; no, it would not 

 really do to steal, — at least until the way 

 had been oiled over, and texts quoted, 

 opportunities siu-veyed, and duty, that plas- 

 tic clay, carefully located. 



He that steals my purse, steals trash; but 

 he that filches from me the credit of my 

 peiniy package steals that which doth not 

 enrich him, but makes me poor indeed. 



Mr. Overmayer, of Sandusky county, Ohio, 

 liad marketed 10,000 lbs. yearly. He put it 

 up in all kinds of packages, but principally 

 in the gem jars, which he sold for 50 cents. 

 He sold none to grocers, but his neighbors 

 and the people around took all he could 

 make. He said his bees had averaged him a 



