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This department will be devoted to items of 



interest concerning Packing, Selling and 



Shipping Honey and Beeswax. 



Marketing Honey. 



The best method of marketing honey, 

 both comb and extracted, is to sell direct to 

 the consnmer or retail dealer, and not to 

 send to honey dealers. One of our corres- 

 pondents gives his experience in selling 

 honey as follows: 



" Last year I put half a barrel of extracted 

 and about 50 pounds of comb honey into my 

 spring wagon, and went among the con- 

 sumers and sold to them at 12^ to 15 cts. per 

 pound for extracted, and 25 cts. for comb 

 honey; and in a siiort time I sold all my ex- 

 tracted lioney, and could have sold as much 

 more. Those who got but a few pounds of 

 me last season now want more and in larger 

 quantities. 1 do not think I can half supply 

 tlie demand I have created in this locality. 

 Last season I sold 4,000 lbs. of lioney, but 

 that will not suffice for this season." 



If the producer would take a little time 

 and trouble to furnisli the consumer with 

 genuine honey at a moderate price, and thus 

 get a market established, he would be sur- 

 prised at the amount he could sell. Try it. 

 Last season we commenced to sell honey 

 from our office, and now the call for it Is 

 vastly increased. So far we have not been 

 able to get it fast enough to supply the call. 



1^ England, we learn, has had a very 

 wet season. Many of the crops have 

 been mjured thereby, particularly the 

 wheat. The call upon the United States 

 for breadstuffs will be quite large in 

 consequence. The season for bees and 

 honey has also been, thus far rather 

 discouraging. Mr. Hoge, who has been 

 in Europe for several months looking 

 after the noney interests, is expected 

 home this month, and then we hope to 

 learn more particulars concerning the 

 honey crop, and the exporting pros- 

 pects. 



To GET Bees out of Honey Boxes. 

 — E. W. Darling inquires how to get the 

 bees out of honey boxes. Place the 

 boxes bottom upwards on the cap of the 

 hive from which the boxes were taken; 

 placing an empty box on the top of each 



one. The bees Avill go up into the empty 

 box and cluster. They may then be 

 shaken down in front of the hives they 

 belong to. 



Increasing.— The extensive use of 

 beeswax for comb foundation has made 

 that article very scarce. We have pur- 

 chased some 1,500 pounds during the 

 month of July, and want more. It is 

 said that the annual product of wax in 

 the United States is 20,000,000 of 

 pounds, and it is increasing very fast. 



The production of honey, too, has 

 doubled within the past few years. Let 

 us then ask a very serious question of 

 those who delight in looking at the dark 

 side. It is this: As last year's honey has 

 been out of the market for at least 3 

 months— has not the demand very sen- 

 sibly increasedf True, prices are lower 

 — but think of the " ready sale " and in- 

 creasing supply and demand. Every 

 article that achieves that much-coveted 

 POPULAR DEMAND reaches lower prices, 

 but with the " ready sale for cash," 

 prodvTcers make more than with a slow 

 sale and higher figures. Oh! "Let us 

 have peace !" 



New use for Honey. — The Cali- 

 fornia Honey Balsam, for coughs, colds, 

 sore throats, and lung diseases, is fast 

 rising in popularity among the afflicted; 

 so much so that it has become necessary 

 to extend its manufacture. For this 

 purpose a company has been organized 

 to manufacture it as well as the Honey 

 Lozenge. The Los Angeles Herald re- 

 marks that " it will not be long until 

 this new enterprise will contribute to 

 the demand for honey. These new 

 uses of honey must be to the interest of 

 apicultural pursuits." 



i^To prevent honey from candying 

 after being taken from the comb, put it 

 into a kettle and over the fire ; boil it 

 gently, and as the skum rises skim it 

 off until it becomes clear, when it can 

 be turned into the vessel you wish to 

 keep it in, where it will keep clear and 

 fresh without candying. 



