S6 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. March, 



little daub on the honey. I don't There is a wide difference between 

 kick on the freight of honey, if I do honey and dry sugar when it comes 

 on the freight of my apples. All I to shipping it. One must be handled 

 find fault with is the carelessness of with utmost care, the other may be 

 the freightmen and perhaps also the slatted about in any way. 

 truckmen. "We as bee-keepers ought to pro- 



Honey is naturally of a frail na- duce, in the first place, a faultless 

 ture. It cannot be otherwise; if article. This must be the aim above 

 it was not, the race of comb honey- ^li; and we cannot produce it with 

 eaters would soon be extinct, and the comb foundation. If certain comb 

 more tampering we do to produce foundation manufacturers had not and 

 soniething tough and unnatural the did not continuously advocate the use 

 more we hasten that day. Those who of the article in section honey, much 

 have not the skill to produce comb \^^^ would be used; bvit what can 

 honey without the use of full sheets 5^ expected, if those who are looked 

 of comb foundation ought to produce ^pon as teachers advocate the use of 

 tBe article in extracted form. ^omb foundation openly and unblush- 



Comb honey is in esteem on ac- ingly, although in the same breath 

 count of its friability, the tenderness they express their unbounded exhil- 

 of the comb, etc., and it would not aration over the pure food law. 

 bring even the present price, if there Some of these gentlemen excuse 

 were not some conscientious bee- ^he use of comb foundation in section 

 keepers left, who do produce a good honey with the supposed fact that 

 article, and purchasers think they are combs built on foundation contain less 

 getting such. Because they are often wax per cu'bic inch than natural comb, 

 disappointed in obtaining good comb This may be a fact; but wouldn't 

 honey is the reason our product meets these gentlemen prefer a good, thick, 

 with a slow sale and is pronounced three-quarters inch beefsteak, tender 

 manufactured. The bee-keepers who and juicy, obtainable in a first-class 

 cannot and do not produce comb restaurant, to the fried up sole-leather 

 honey without the use of full (only one-quarter inch thick) of the 

 sheets of foundation ought to be cheap affair? 



compelled to stamp each and every ^jj ^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ insuring our 

 section with, "This honey is built ^^^^^ ^^^.^^^ breakage in transit is 

 on comb foundation. It would be ^^ ^^.^ ^^^ ^^U ^.^^t.^^^t sections, 

 only fair to the other fellow. , ^^^ p^^^ ^^^^ ^p .^ p^^p^^ ^^^p^^ j^ 



Bottom starters, as Mr. Muth so far I agree with Mr. Muth. But 

 claims, have nothing whatever to do when such honey does not reach its 

 with freight rates, and it is roo bad destination uninjured then the rail- 

 that such an assertion should be made roads and the truckmen are to blame, 

 in our press. If we. should use cast- and in reality there is where the 

 iron comb foundation, it would not blame lies, 

 insure safe transit. Naples, N. Y. 



The people who are manufacturing 



cereal foods, dealers in sugar or other 



similar products have the advantage You can no more filter your mind 

 in producing an article which cannot into purity than you can compress it 

 be injured, if it is put up in a strong into calmness; you must keep it pure 

 outside box; but it would not help if j'ou would have it pure, and throw 

 any to put comb honey into a recep- no stones into it if you would have it 

 tacle made of two-inch oak plank, quiet. — Ruskin. 



