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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



March 



state. By heating- the honey and seal- 

 ing it up while hot, granulation is prac- 

 tically overcome. For my own per- 

 sonal likes I would have extracted hon- 

 ey thoroughly candied. Its luscious 

 sweetness when eaten with light flaky 

 biscuit is then above comparison with 

 anything we know of. I speak of the 

 best grades only as inferior honey is 

 poor eating at any time. But, since 

 the natural trend of the wants of the 

 honey-eating public seems to be for 

 honey in a pure liquid state when it is 

 taken out of the comb, I would advise 

 a somewhat strict conformity to the 

 prevailing conditions rather than by 

 education seek to establish a demand 

 for granulated honey which in many 

 instances is not only inferior but must 

 be sold at a figure considerably higher 

 than granulated sugar. 



From the view point of my little 

 perch, the different associations might 

 help the sales of liquid honey by 

 adopting a package best suited to the 

 markets of their own section, and then, 

 by an order il. the faciory guarantee- 

 ing a given number of a large denomi- 

 nation, place the jars in the hands of 

 their respective members at a very mod- 

 ernte price. Ihc pa(l:^:ge should be 

 attractive and a rapid filler also. A bot- 

 tle sealed with a cork and then waxed 

 will probably preserve the delicate fla- 

 vor of honey better than a jar that 

 closes by means of a cap and a rubber 

 ring. But the work of sealing them is 

 so tedious; besides, the purchaser rare- 

 ly values a bottle so highly as he does 

 a jar. The "Tip-Top" jar, holding one 

 pound, is really the most practical of 

 any that have come under my notice. 

 This jar is bound to supercede the No. 

 25 jar — if the former preserves honey 

 in a liquid state as well as the latter. 

 The Tip Top jars are delightfully rapid 

 in, the matter of sealing and they are just 

 as far ahead of the others just men- 

 tioned, in point of display. They look 

 bigger and sell more readily than a 

 squatty iar holding the s'lU.c amount of 

 honey. If this jar was reduced in size 

 at the shoulder, making it uniform from 

 the bottom to the neck but enough tall- 

 er to retain its present capacity, the 

 display would be siill better and the 

 sales of honey more froiiuent. 



Jelly glasses hoi ling a half pound of 

 honey are very popular n-ili a large 

 class of consumers ^'ho wai t "just a 



little" honey, but want that little often. 

 Some styles of these glasses are very 

 pretty when empty but after being filled 

 and neatly labeled are most catchy in 

 appearance. Could we but have a pack- 

 age of this capacity, sealing as rapidly 

 as the Tip-Top jars, though not exseed- 

 ing the cost price of the jelly glasses, 

 extracted honey would be moved in 

 quantities more satisfactory to the 

 trade. The retail price of honey in 

 them being "only a dime!" a great deal 

 of it would be used in the homes of 

 the honest poor where children seldom 

 have ,the pleasure of eating the sweets 

 gleaned from the clover fields by the 

 honey-bee. 



Wheelersburg, O., Dec. 5, 1902. 



CUBAN COHB HONEY. 



How It Compares 'With the New England Pro- 

 duct. 

 (Samuel W. Bridgham, 2nd). 



I SAW it in the window of the gro- 

 cery store as I was passing, and I 

 immediately proceeded to buy a 

 comb, and to ask where it came from. 



It was the finest looking honey I 

 ever saw in sections. As white as driv- 

 en snow, nearly every cell capped clear 

 to the wood, and remarkably free from 

 stain of any kind, either on ,the comb 

 or on the box. I picked out a section 

 that had but five uncapped cells in it, 

 and filled, as stated, clear to the wood, 

 to take home as a sample. 



That which I bought was part of a 

 lo,t that was standing without any cov- 

 ering i. e. not in any carton, but on 

 top of a pile of cartons from a Vermont 

 apiary. The latter was in the ordinary 

 section boxes, while that which I 

 bought was in Danz. sections. I asked 

 the clerk where it came fronr and he 

 said "Vermont," whereupon I went at 

 once to Bro. A. C. Miller in the hope 

 of palming it off on him for local pro- 

 duct, but the joke didn't work worth a 

 cent. He is "a cleaner" on matters 

 "apistical." What he doesn't know or 

 find out about bees in some way or 

 other isn't worth the knowing; so when 

 I opened up the package, he said, "So 

 you have got some of that Cuban hon- 

 ey, too." "Not much," said I. "that 

 honey came from Vermont." But he 



