A MONTHLY JOURNAL 



Devoted to the Interests of Honey Producers. 

 $L00 A YEAR. 

 W. Z. flDTCHDiSON. Editor and Proprietor. 



VOL. XVII. FLINT, MICHIGAN, SEPT. 15, 1904. NO. 9. 



!©siey at 12 Ceat^ 



BY H. G. AHLERS. 



.sstracte< 



JT/ O introduce myself to the readers 

 -1- of the Review I must make the fol- 

 lowing- explanation: I was born and 

 raised one mile from my present resi- 

 dence. I lived in I>ouisiana about 

 sixteen years. I kept bees, and sold 

 honey there, more or less, most of the 

 time; with a financial /oss all the time. 

 May 15th, 1899, I shipped, by express, 

 26 ten-frame cases, mostly sealed 

 brood, young bees and queens, from 

 New Orleans, to Wisconsin. From 

 these bees I took nearly 3,000 pounds 

 extracted honey in June and July. I 

 have since then increased my bees to 

 only 54 colonies. I have averaged 100 

 pounds of extracted honey per colony, 

 per annum. 



HOW THE TRADE WAS STARTED. 



In the fall of 1899, while going to the 

 State fair at Milwaukee, I took along, 

 in a satchel, twelve Mason quart jars 

 of honey. Some relatives sold them 

 for me, while I waited, at 30c without, 

 or 35c with, the jar. Most of the jars 



were exchanged. When I arrived at 

 home I received a request by mail to 

 send in "some more of that nice 

 honey." Many of the neighbors want- 

 ed some because, they declared, it was 

 much better than Johnson's or Smith's 

 honey. I sent in several hundred 

 pounds to these relatives. The neigh- 

 bors got the honey and paid 10 cents 

 per pound for it. The honey was sent 

 in by one of my neighbors, who sup- 

 plied customers with butter. I paid 

 him one cent per pound. He returned 

 all empty jars and crocks. In August 

 and September, 1900, this same neigh- 

 bor hauled in over 1,000 pounds for me. 

 I sold this honey myself, mostly in 

 Mason quarts. Orders were taken for 

 crocks containing ten or twenty 

 pounds. 



HOW THE BUSINESS GREW. 



In 1901 I took 6,000 pounds from 31 

 colonies. I then bought a good horse, 

 a platform wagon nine feet long (a 

 regular milk wagon) with extra side- 



