1890. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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est grade. Extracted honey can be 

 ali'orded t'or somewhat less a price. 



But in jielliug honey in either form 

 give honest weight. The consumer, 

 whose palate we wish to tickle, natur- 

 ally objects to paying the price of 

 honey for glass bottles or whitewood 

 sections. And again, if one buys a 

 pound of honey he wants what he pays 

 for and he is entitled to it. It is bet- 

 ter to keep both the goods and price 

 at a fair, honest level, than to lower 

 both to a suspicious minimum. 



In putting extracted honey upon the 

 retail market use some small packages. 

 A glass package is preferable to all 

 others. Jelly tumblers — two sizes — 

 do very well ; the main objection is 

 their cost. The smaller size holds 10 

 ounces of honey, the larger exactly a 

 pound. Square white glass jars — dis- 

 card the amber-colored, as they dis- 

 count your white honey — something 

 like a pickle jar, close with a cork, 

 make a good and clean package. Such 

 jars should hold about 15 ounces of 

 honey, and, bought by the gross, cost 

 about 1 1-2 cents apiece, if you are 

 fortunate as to breakage on the rail- 

 roads. 



Either of these make a neat and at 

 tractive package, with a colored label 

 neatly printed with the name of the 

 apiary and owner's name and " pure 

 honey " on it, neatly pasted upon each. 

 Lithographic labels I would discard. 

 Honey is good enough looking of it- 

 self without embellishment by print- 

 ers' art. 



One fault with jelly tumblers as a 

 package for extracted honey is their 

 liability to leak, and this may be easi- 

 ly remedied by running a ring of 

 melted wax above the rim upon which 

 the covers shut. Warm the tumbler, 



turn on a few drops of hot beeswax 

 above the rim, holding the tumbler at 

 an angle of 45°, and slowly turn it 

 around ; the wax will flow, making an 

 even, narrow ring of wax. Done be- 

 fore the glasses are filled with honey, 

 it will be air tight when the cover is 

 shut down upon it. 



Where one has considerable comb 

 honey in sections to market, the plan 

 of furnishing a small, upright show- 

 case to the groceryraen handling your 

 honey, I have found to work well. 

 These cases are made with three glass 

 sides, using glass 16x30 inches, set in 

 a cheap frame, the wood filled and 

 varnished. These cases will cost S2.50 

 to f 3.00, but soon pay their cost, as 

 they exclude flies, dirt and dust. Up- 

 on the front pane have your name and 

 address painted in showy letters. 

 When the honey is sold low, replenish 

 from time to time from your stock at 

 home. 



Honey placed upon the market in 

 this or some such form will attract 

 notice and inspire confidence in its 

 genuineness by having the producers' 

 name back of it, as well as its own 

 truth-telling good looks. Small and 

 medium-sized packages, neat, and 

 above all, tight, so as not to be leaking 

 the contents and daubing everything 

 they come in contact with ; full 

 weights and pure quality; honey in 

 this form will command a fair price 

 when the same goods might go beg- 

 ging for sale wanting these requisites. 



" Christmas in Several Lands" is the at- 

 tractive title of a delightful symposium in 

 the Christmas number of Demorest's Maga- 

 zine, wherein the (Jhristmas customs and 

 the Christmas spirit in various countries are 

 pleasantly described by persons who have 

 had soii,e part in them. 



