A MONTHLY JOURNAL 



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Devoted to the Interests of Honey Producers. 

 $1.00 A YEAR. 

 W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Editor and Proprietor. 



VOL. XVII. FLINT, MICHIGAN, JULY 15, 1904. NO. X. 



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BY N. E. FRANCE. 



JT/ HE nearer home the producer can 

 ■^ sell his honey, the greater the 

 profit. Every time it is sold, through 

 dealers, there must be a profit, which 

 reduces the price the producer will 

 get. Each handling of honey, the 

 same as with fruit, injures its ap- 

 pearance more or less for market, and 

 that means slow sale at a lower price. 

 The many bee-keepers who have ed- 

 ucated themselves in the production of 

 honey, have neglected the just as im- 

 portant part, how to prepare it for the 

 market and sell at good prices. If the 

 dealer has to clean the sections, then 

 grade as he crates, and pay for trav- 

 eling salesman to sell the goods, it all 

 costs, and the loser is the producer; as 

 he gets only what is left. Don't hurry 

 your honey on the early market, unless 

 the demand and price will justify it. 



MANY COMMISSION HOUSES DO NOT 

 HANDLE AND CARE FOR • 

 HONEY PROPERLY. 



Most of the commission dealers 

 handle fruit, vegetables, poultry, etc., 

 as well as honey. Last fall, by re- 



quest, I called on several such dealers 

 in large cities to learn why certain bee- 

 keepers' honey was not sold. Each 

 dealer said he could not sell honey so 

 long as the big supply of perishable 

 fruit was on his hands: the honey 

 would keep, and he could sell that 

 later. I found tons of once fancy comb 

 honey, also extracted honey, in their 

 cellars. The comb honey had a bad, 

 watery appearance, was in soak-stain- 

 ed cases, and the barrels and kegs had 

 been rolled in the coal dust on the 

 floor. Besides this, some thin, extract- 

 ed honey was working out, and sour- 

 ing. Do you wonder the honey was 

 slow selling, and the the bee-keepers 

 talking of the National Association 

 selling the honey? 



THE DAMAGE DONE BY PUTTING UN- 

 RIPE HONEY ON THE MARKET. 



Another cause of slow sales is, many 

 are not careful to extract well-ripened 

 honey. In southern California and 

 parts of Texas, and Arizona, where 

 there is scorching sunshine every day, 

 and the honey is nearly ripened in the 



