82 THE AM5;RICAN bee-keeper. April, 



largely the result of carelessness on way, which will soon be made public 



the part of the honey producers through the bee journals. That 



themselves, in failing to use full those who advocate the non use of 



sheets of extra thin foundation in the foundations in sections are the ones 



sections and also, in failing to prop- who are loudest in their complant 



erly prepare and crate their product against the freight handlers is of 



for shipment. itself a significant fact. 



Because comb honey is necessarily i„ niy 30 years as a honey produ- 

 of a frail nature, and therefore easily cer, nearly one half of which time I 

 damaged by careless handling, is all delivered a good part of my product 

 the more reason why greater care direct to the consumer, I have never 

 should be exercised in preparing it ygj- received an order for a single 

 for shipment so that it will with- pound of honey to be produced with- 

 stand the rough handling to which all out foundation, 

 freight is more less subjected. Per- Birmingham, Ohio, 

 sonally, I have -o ;°-P;^i"; ^^ "aake BENEFIT OF BEE-KEEPERS' ' 

 agamst the freight handlers for the cornrTTTrc 

 way they have handled my honey bUULb^±J.i> 

 since it is crated and packed in such 



a manner that it will withstand a geo. b. howe. 



great amount of rough handling, and w THINK there are very few of us 



I 



although I ship all my honey and I who give this subject the care 

 guarantee safe delivery by freight, ful thought and thorough study 

 I have never yet been asked to make j,. deserves. First, there are too 

 good any breakage for the past fif- rnany that if they do not receive a 

 teen years, or since I learned by flnancial benefit the very first thing 

 dearly bought experience to use full they give up and say the societies do 

 sheets of foundation in the sections riot amount to anything, 

 and how to properly prepare and Qf course, if you are one of the 

 crate my honey for shipment. Be- "know-it-alls," I advise you to keep 

 fore that time I lost $35 on one ship- q^,{. ^^d avoid being disappointed, 

 ment while I was laboring under the q^ ^j^e other hand, if you are glad to 

 delusion that natural combs were so ^elp and be helped, you are one of 

 much superior to combs built from ^^e very best men or women to ad- 

 full sheets of extra thin foundation, v^nce our societies. 

 The difiference between the friable- ^g ^j^^ bee-keeper said to me (and 

 ness of the comb that is built from that was W. L. Coggshall, one of the 

 full sheets of extra thin, new process largest bee-keepers in the world) 

 foundation and that built without the "Why, the enthusiasm I get at these 

 aid of foundation is too infinitesimal conventions is worth a whole lot to 

 to be noticed and sinks into utter in- j^g " Now, if such men receive ben- 

 significance when compared with the Qf^ts, what must it mean to you and 

 many advantages to be gained by T, Not only are we benefited in a 

 the use of full sheets of extra thin gonial way, but what is it worth to 

 foundation. hear some veteran tell us at these 

 By full sheets I mean that the sec- meetings just how he does this or 

 tions should be so perfectly filled that. Reading these in a journal is 

 with foundation that there is not a all right as far as they go, but they 

 crack that you can see through any are likened to a photo, there is so 

 where. Regarding the use of bottom much lost in the reproduction that 

 starters I will say there is a better is valuable. 



