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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



from tipping- and shucking about after 

 one or more cups have been removed. 

 A case holds four dozen Yz pints, in 

 two layers. Little and often is my 

 motto for the stores and meat markets; 

 and as it is put up hot, I seldom have 

 to take up any candied honey. 



PAILS FOR THE ROUTES. 



In the good old white pine days, I 

 put most of my honey in the 7 pound 

 (5 pound lard) pail. These were 

 put in a tight close-fitting, homemade 

 cupboard (double decked) which held 

 24, and in which they fitted so tightly 

 that they could neither tip nor lose 

 their covers. I counted it one after- 

 noon's work to distribute these 24 pails 

 in the vicinity of a big busy mill at 

 one dollar each, and gather up my 

 pails of the previous trip. But all this 

 has changed. The pine is gone, and 

 with it the 7 pound pail, and I now 

 find that I can sell more tins of honey 

 in 2 pound and 4 pound pails at a 

 shilling a pound. The Jones 2 pound 

 pail is good but costs more than the 4 

 pound (3 pound lard) pail with my 

 own name, a straw skep and pure 

 machine extracted honey in bronze on 

 the pail— only S'^c direet from the 



Brecht Butchers' Supply Co., St. 

 Louis, Mo. 



In the matter of packages and adver- 

 tising, the National Association cer- 

 tainly has something in store for us, 

 and we should lose no time in connect- 

 ing our name with it, and make it 

 strong, even as the Grange is strong, 

 and is now supplying us with so many 

 farm commodities at little more than 

 one-half trust-prices. 



I find that the size of package is 

 quite a matter of habit on the part of 

 consumers, and I mean to yet sell 

 honey in the gallon cans and pails and 

 even in the 60 pound cans, and to the 

 rural people too 



I have little faith in the brick, or 

 paper sack idea. Candied honey in 

 sacks would have to be sold forenough 

 less to pay for the melting and pail 

 too, and is not adapted to the route 

 method, as we want as inanj' excuses 

 to go back as possible. It might do for 

 the grocer, say '^ pounds for a 

 quarter, as against two pounds in the 

 pail. 



Next month I will tell how I form 

 and maintain my honey routes. 



Cheboygan, Mich., Aug. 31, 1904. 



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BY HARRY LATHROP. 



rp HE wintering problem is one of 

 T- great importance in all the Nor- 

 thern States, and winter losses have 

 discouraged many a bee-keeper who 

 started out with enthusiasm. No one 

 with only a few years' experience 

 would care to speak with much con- 

 fidence of what he has done, for fear 

 that a heavy loss in the future may 

 dispel the delusion that he had solved 



the problem and mastered the situa- 

 tion. 



WINTER LOSSES THAT ARE AVOIDABLE. 



'I have been wintering bees for 

 twent3' years, and consider that my 

 success entitles me to draw a few con- 

 clusions from the experience of that 

 of the past. I can say that in all that 

 time I have not lost any colonies the 



