This department will be devoted to items of 



Interest concerning Packinsr, Selling and 



Shipping Honey and Beeswax. 



J^" The honey in Prize Boxes and Crates, 

 sent to the Paris Exhibition, by Messrs. 

 Thurber, was selected exclusively from the 

 product of friend P. II Elwood, of Stark- 

 ville, N. y. This is certainly a compliment 

 to the producer, and we shall watch with 

 interest the report of the Jury and publish 

 its language verbatim. 



[CW An important alteration has been 

 made in Iloge's Carrier, substituting spiral 

 springs for rubber balls. These carriers 

 can now be made at home by any one, after 

 obtaining a pattern, at a considerable reduc- 

 tion in cost. They are not intended to be 

 used for car-load lots, but simply for dis- 

 tributing trade, in say half-a-dozen crate 

 lots. They can be returned to the producer 

 and used over and over, as often as nec- 

 essary. 



IIt^~ Honey dealers, we presume, like all 

 other merchants, iiave a varied demand to 

 cater to, and as a consequence are obliged 

 to sell honey in all shapes and conditions; 

 sometimes some want honey without, as 

 well as with, glass. We see no objection to 

 their supplying any and all demands that 

 may be made for honey, provided the want 

 be for the genuine article. 



1^^ They say, " a wink is as good as a 

 nod to a blind horse;" we hardly think that 

 Capt. Hetherington did so much as wink at 

 friend Betsinger about the working of wire 

 into foundation combs. A wink must have 

 been given, though, at the National Conven- 

 tion, and friend Betsinger must have heard 

 it, for we see by last month's Oleanings 

 that he has purchased a machine with cop- 

 per rollers, for the express purpose of work- 

 ing in the wire ! Well; so wags the world. 

 Some originate — almost all imitate. 



E^"Mr. Dadant asks the question in the 

 March number of the Journal: "What 

 kind of honey was sold by an American 

 firm, at Bremam, for the small price of 97 

 cents per gallon, or 8 cents per ft?" We 

 would say that strained honey from Cuba, 

 San Domingo, Mexico, Lousiana and Flori- 

 da, is offered freely at 87 to 90 cts. per gal Ion, 



and'American dealers having foreign orders 

 to fill, buy the honey from the 3 first coun- 

 tries " in bond " at 67 to 70 cts. per gallon. 

 Lithgow Brothers, of Porta Plata, are in the 

 habit of buying strained honey from the 

 natives, at 30 to 35 cts. per gallon, to which 

 must be added the duty levied by their 

 government. Friend C. Parlange, of Pointe 

 Coupee, La., has now some honey in New 

 York, which he would sell for less than 8 

 cts. per ft. 



Freight on Honey. 



Messrs. H. K. & F. B. Thurber & 

 Co., of New York, are just now en- 

 gaged in a vigorous and intelligent 

 effort to secure a change in frieght 

 classitication of honey. They claim it 

 is ridiculous to rate comb honey as 

 first-class, as nearly all transportation 

 companies do, and exact a release from 

 the shipper, releiving companies from 

 all loss of breakage or leakage occur- 

 ring in transit. 



Mr. r. B. Thurber is the president of 

 the New York Roard of Trade and 

 Transportation, and therefore particu- 

 larly well htted to accomplish this im- 

 portant work. 



There has generally been a discrimi- 

 nation made in classification, where 

 releases were given. Take, for in- 

 stance, the article of show-cases; they 

 rate as first-class, but if released, they 

 rate as fourth. For our own part, we 

 have never been able to reconcile the 

 justice of classing syrups as fourth, and 

 strained honey in bbls. as second, or 

 Avhy transportation companies, who 

 decline all responsibility of safe deliv- 

 ery should charge us more than fourth- 

 class freight for our honey. 



This change in the "freight tariff 

 would save honey producers many 

 thousands of dollars in moving their 

 crops next year; and we trust that 

 every one who has the common inter- 

 ests of the bee-keepers at heart will co- 

 operate in this matter. 



1^ A letter from a honey dealer in 

 Leith, Scotland, dated Feb. 22, 1878, is 

 on our desk. It states that " comb 

 honey is subjected to such severe han- 

 dling in transit, that it is received 

 in bad order, and is unsatisfactory to 

 customers." He also says that "peo- 

 ple are very suspicious and prejudiced 

 against American Iioney since the late 

 adulterations." The remedy against 

 such breakage seems to be in using a 

 good Honey Carrier — such as that in- 

 vented bv Mr. Hoge. Is it not V 



