that of Doolittle's and Ellwood's A brand, 

 ■were maintained at 25 cents throughout the 

 entire season. As well as one or two other 

 producers, their cups of honey were sent 

 to market in the neatest possible form, and 

 they were well paid for the trouble ! Not 

 only did they have a care for neatness, but 

 while packing the honey into crates, they 

 avoided with scrupulous care anything that 

 looked like deception ; or, in other words, 

 the "veneering" game, that so many prac- 

 ticed to their cost. In showing honey to 

 grocers who buy single crates, they now, 

 almost invariably, have the crate opened 

 and examine every box, and if any are 

 found off color, or in any way irregular in 

 style or quality, the entire crate is rejected 

 and has to be sold at a reduced price. It 

 will be a great deal better for producers to 

 cull the honey and grade it as it should be. 

 We know how prone human nature is to 

 ut the best foot forward, but it will.not dop 

 in eases of this kind. 



Extracted honey, we are pleased to note, 

 is just now attracting considerable atten- 

 tion, from the new interest invested in it 

 by the recent satisfactory efforts of certain 

 gentlemen to convert it into sugar, suitable 

 for domestic and manufacturing purposes. 

 We are free to hazard the opinion that if 

 the production of extracted honey can be so 

 much facilitated and cheapened as to make 

 its cost approximate that of raw sugar, it 

 will then be but a question of time, when 

 refineries will spring up all over the coun- 

 try, for its conversion into sugar ; imtil 

 then, producers must content themselves 

 ■with a fitful and uncertain market. An 

 important question is about to arise, and 

 that is, " Can honey be profitably produced, 

 so as to compete with raw sugar ?" If this 

 be determined in the affirmative, then all 

 fears of an " over production " will be 

 forever dispelled. 



Let us have a full and exhaustive dis- 

 cussion of the matter. It will have to be 

 disposed of sometime ; and we might as 

 well face the music now. 



Golden Rod Honey.— It will be inter- 

 esting to friend Palmer and others, who 

 produce this kind of honey, to know that 

 one European establishment, after receiv- 

 ing a sample shipment of Golden Rod 

 Honey, sent an order to New York for that 

 kind of honey ; at the same time intimating 

 that the trade in it was likely to be large. 



The Feast of the Passover.— This is 

 the season our Jewish citizens celebrate the 

 Feast of the Passover, one of their impor- 

 tant religious ceremonies, on which occa- 

 sion it is their custom to eat honey. They 

 are very particular regarding its purity, 

 and indifferent as to price. They are 

 instructed by their Rabbles to buy only 

 candied honey, as it is more likely to be 

 pure than it is when liquid. The grocery- 

 men buy it in barrels, and sell it out to 

 peddlers, who in turn, pack it in new, clean, 

 and bright packages. One singular thing 

 about this trade is that they will accept 

 only such honey as candies with a "grainy" 

 appearance, rejecting as impure, and as 

 they say, " mixed with flour," all other 

 kinds. The magnitude of this line of con- 

 sumption is not appreciated by most deal- 

 ers. We have known a firm, this year, to 

 clean the market of this particular kind of 

 honey, accumulating upwards of 200 barrels 

 and firkins, and unload the whole of it in a 

 single week in April. 



California Honey.— Commission men 

 and producers in California have, we under- 

 stand, perfected arrangements for consign- 

 ments of large lots of honey to Chicago, 

 St. Louis, Pliiladelphia, Pittsburgh, Cincin- 

 natti and Boston. They are afraid to try 

 the New York market, we understand, 

 because they fear the competition with 

 Eastern honey will be so great. They con- 

 sider New York the point to which the 

 most of the honey produced in the East 

 will be shipped. The Californians have 

 taken a " new departure " in the way of 

 surplus boxes. We saw some very neat 

 Prize Boxes and Crates from there, last 

 winter. Our Eastern friends will certainly 

 have to look to their laurels. Comb honey 

 must be put upon the market in attractive 

 one-comb boxes, to find ready sale. 



Every one "who has traveled in Swit- 

 zerland will recollect how plenty honey 

 is thronghout that conntry. At the 

 hotels it is supplied ad libitum without 

 extra charge as a part of the "■ plain 

 breakfast " of rolls and coffee. In 

 most parts of this country, on the other 

 hand, it has been a comparatively 

 costly luxury ; but now there is reason 

 to hope that it will soon be as abundant 

 as in Switzerland. With the modern 

 axipliances discovered to direct these 

 busy w^orkers for man's benefit, bee- 

 keeping is destined to develop a source 

 of untold wealth to the country. — Exch. 



