Selling and Shipping Honey. 



For a lady of good practical sense 

 commend us to Mrs. L. Harrison, of 

 Peoria, 111. In a late Prairie Farmer 

 she remarks as follows on the subject 

 of marketing honey : 



White comb lioiiey in tlie " prize box" has 

 only to be shown to be sold. Tlieteinptation 

 is too strong to be resisted. I once asked 

 a vierson if lie wislied to buy some lioney. 

 He quicl<ly answered. "No." 1 said, "Will 

 you please look at it ?" As he politely com- 

 plied, he uttered a prolonged " O, 1 must 

 liave some of that." 



If I had extracted honey to sell, I would 

 visit all the drua stores in my vicinity and 

 ascertain if they were supplied. Tliese 

 establisliments use considerable ; they i)ut 

 something into it to make it taste badly, and 

 sell it as a sovereign remedy for couglis and 

 colds ! Extracted honey, put up in gallon 

 packages, ought to sell well to families, 

 boarding-liouses, and hotels. Grocerymen 

 do not seem to understand the selling of it; 

 it gets to be an old setiler. 



Farmers do more to keep down the price 

 of honey than any other class of people. 

 They do not make a business of keeping 

 bees, and when they " take up their honey," 

 they load it into a wagon, drive to the near- 

 est town, aiui sell it for whatever they can 

 get. They know little and care less about 

 the price of honey. 



The demand for lioney is yearly on the in- 

 crease ; formerly it used to be considered 

 as an article of luxury or medicine, hut the 

 mass of the people are fast being educated 

 to consider it an indispensable article of 

 food. 



1^ Milo Spalding has sent us a sam-' 

 pie of drones and asks vflmt we think 

 of them. They are very large, well 

 marked and bright in color. A friend 

 sent to him to get some of the stock, 

 and he informed him that he had none 

 to sell. On inquiring where he jirocured 

 the queen, he said he got her at the 

 Bee Journat. otlice in Chicago, and 

 wanted to get more of the same stock. 

 Good enougli. He can be accommo- 

 dated next season. We have refused 

 $50.00 for the mother of that queen. 



By special invitation of President 

 Cheney, we expect to attend the Michigan 

 Bee-Keepers' Convention at Grand liapids, 

 Dec. 4th and .5th. 



' Any one having Vol. I. of the Amer- 

 ican Bee .Iouknai. for sale, will please 

 se nd postal card to this office, stating price. 



New Honey Sections. — Mr. G. B. 

 Lewis, of Watertown, Wis., has just 

 brought out something new. They are 

 all in one piece, nicely planed on all 

 sides, and just where the joints sliould 

 be it is gouged out perfectly true, so 

 as to allow it to be bent into sliape. 

 The two outside ends being dovetailed, 

 it goes togetlier easily, and forms a 

 nice box. When glued at the joints it 

 is very solid and strong. 



i^A friend in Penn., w^-ites us con- 

 cerning an expression in the Sept. No., 

 about the decision of the P. M. Gen- 

 eral excluding bees from the mails. We 

 said that it w^ould nearly ruin the dol- 

 lar queen business. We added that 

 " such ought not to be sent out either 

 by mail or otherwise." Our friend 

 wants to know, Whyf We cheerfully 

 answer : Dollar queens aveuntested, and 

 often prove impure ; purchasers unac- 

 quainted with Italians suppose them to 

 be pure, and then raise and sell to their 

 neighbors their progeny tor jnire stock, 

 and thus, vmwittingly, give Italians a 

 bad name. Such a man called at our 

 office some time since to see Italians; 

 he said he never saw any like ours 

 before, though he had purchased one 

 of some breeder and raised queens from 

 her and sold them to his neighbors for 

 Italians. This is one of the evil re- 

 sults. Hence we said no untested 

 queen should be sent out. Are we not 

 right V 



1^ J. AVintield,Hubbardston, O., has 

 sent us a photograph of the Pillar of 

 Honey, on which he obtained the Prize 

 at the Ohio State Pair. It is handsome 

 and caused much admiration while on 

 exhibition. We cannot too strongly 

 urge upon bee-keepers to exliibit their 

 honey at all the neighboring fairs. It 

 will speedily give their honey cliaracter 

 and demand at home ! 



1^ Winter has come in good earnest, 

 apparently ; and much earlier than it 

 has done for many years. " Frost and 

 snow" now prevail, as we go to press. 



