Shipping and Marketing Honey.— 

 Packages should have gross and net weight 

 neatly marked upon the cover or head.— 

 The address of the firm to which the honey 

 is sliipped should be so marked on tlie 

 cover or head, as to generally take up as 

 little room as possible. Commission houses 

 will generally forward a stencil-plate for 

 this purpose, when requested to do so.— 

 The initials of the party shipping, or his 

 shipping mark, should be on the package as 

 well. Of course, where large lots are ship- 

 ped, simpler marks can be used, by an 

 arrangement between the parties. Neat- 

 ness in marking is very important. The 

 shipper should strive to have his honey 

 strike the eye. of the buyer favorably at 

 first sight. Receipts should always be 

 taken from the express or transportation 

 companies, and full advices, with a correct 

 invoice of the shipment, should, without 

 delay, be forwarded by mail. When for- 

 warded by express, it is best to put a letter 

 of advice in one of the packages, and mark 

 plainly " bill," advising by mail. There is 

 nothing so vexatious or intolerable to a 

 commission house as the receipt of consign- 

 ments not properly or distinctly marked 

 and advised. Every producer who designs 

 to make a market for his honey and obtain 

 good prices, should have a brand or mark 

 of his own. By doing so, he may establish 

 a reputation for his goods which will be 

 valuable to him ; buyers will look for his 

 particular brand. 



The Boston Honey Market.— There is 

 quite a large stock of white clover and bass- 

 wood honey remaining on hand unsold 

 there. Dealers paid a high price for it, 

 early in the season, last fall, and are not 

 disposed to sell at a loss now ; therefore, 

 they expect to hold it over until next sea- 

 son. They do not seem to push it with the 

 vigor they should, either. A friend of ours 

 called upon a commission merchant, the 

 other day, who, he knew, ought to have 

 some nice honey ; and, after looking around 

 and failing to discover the article anywhere 

 in sight, asked whether he had any honey 

 for sale. He replied, " Yes, we have a lot 

 up in the loft, it is a good deal of trouble to 

 get it down, but if you want to buy, we will 

 show it to you." He assured him that if he 

 was not too much attached to it, and the 

 price and quality suited, he would buy, and 

 finally did negotiate the sale. The Geer 

 brothers complain of slow sales, and say 

 that they expect to draw ott all their wagons 



the 1st of May. Cuba honey is offered and 

 sold there at 80c. per gallon ; it weighs 

 about 11 lbs. to the gallon ; even at this low 

 price, the only buyers are New Yorkers. 



It^" J. H. Martin, of Hartford, N. Y., has 

 sent us some of the little boxes in which he 

 has been putting up his candied honey, as 

 spoken of on page 107 of the April number. 

 His boxes are round, and look like large 

 pill boxes, and hold 2 oz., J^ lb. and 3^ lb. 

 each respectively. They are neat and nice, 

 and as they take well with the children — 

 why is this not a good scheme ? It comes 

 very near to the " penny package " idea — 

 and it is healthy for the children and profit- 

 able for the producer. 



Winterset, Iowa, April 15, 1878. 

 " In the winter of 1876-7 I had 10 colo- 

 nies in the cellar and left 44 out without 

 protection, and in June following 1 had 

 only .3 left. I increased and purchased to 

 32 ; sold 22 of them and expect to increase 

 to 50 this season, besides getting about 500 

 lbs. of honey." M. Bailey. 



St. Clair Co.. III., April 13, 1878. 

 "I would like to ask C. Eggleston if the 

 se^ison had not more to do with his success 

 than the kind of hive he uses? My bees 

 brought flour from a mill (60 rods distant.) 

 before Christmas, and kept at it till others 

 brought in natural pollen. I had brood 

 hatching on Feb. 1. I have 2:5 colonies in 

 Adair hives. Novice has not changed as 

 much as Mitchell. The latter's changes 

 have been many. In 1870 he bad the Buck- 

 eye, with hinged frames opening like a 

 book ; in 1872 he had the ' Rough and 

 Ready' hive, lined with paper, frames 

 11x12, tight-fitting at sides. With this he 

 was going to ' beat the world.' Now he has 

 tile adjustable hive, with frames 12)^x10^ 

 deep. Thi« makes 3 different hives in 8 

 years. In transferring, it makes no differ- 

 ence which wav combs are put into the 

 frames, as I have proved. I made the dis- 

 covery in this way— one very warm day in 

 September, 1875, 1 was extracting honey 

 from the brood-chambers of several Adair 

 hives and cracked several combs at the top, 

 so that they would not bear their weight 

 right side up, so I turned them top side 

 down, intending to turn them as soon as the 

 bees got them mended, but I missed one 

 and left it in the hive till 1 was overhauling 

 it the next spring, when I found it all nicely 

 fixed up, straight and smooth, with more 

 brood in it than in any other section in the 

 chamber. I have since put combs in frames 

 just as they fit best, and never have had any 

 cut out yet. which Mitchell says they will 

 do, in his ' First Lessons in Bee Culture.' " 

 C. T. Smith. 



