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shelves, has caused me to invent modesf 

 which I have covered by letters patent, of 

 getting up jar honey in which there is no 

 honey outside the comb to get candied — 

 of course it will be said I have no right to 

 these patents, but, I have them, — the bees 

 themselves packing it in the jars — don't 

 get sheered, nobody — it is box honey, only 

 it is in jars. The candying of honey has 

 been my only trouble in jarring — the best 

 evidence of its purity its only enemy. 

 I have bought dozens of copies of the 

 different bee papers, containing articles 

 on candied honey, and sent to those who 

 called such honey impure ; but they often 

 thought we were in the same balloon, and 

 would none of it; others simply wish 

 me to exchange for fresh goods. Still the 

 trade has been good and continues so, but 

 the new style of packing will be the ne 

 plus ultra — which undoubtedly will be 

 imitated before the first season is over, and 

 they will swear that their grandfather did 

 the same thing, but they did not think it 

 worth anything — and probably it was'nt; 

 or they may refer me to Sampson's lion 

 carcass, in which bees stored honey. 

 Well, it won't be the first man's lion car- 

 cass I have had to deal with. Some one 

 may say, that this was the way the honey 

 was put up that was found in the ruins of 

 Pompeii, and I will find you a man who 

 will say that all the honey he ever saw, 

 that came from those ancient ruins, was 

 labeled "Perrine, Chicago;" but I have 

 reason to believe he was joking. 



The honey houses that " sprang up like 

 magic," are the identical ghosts at which 

 Mr. B. was frightened, and from which 

 he has not yet recovered, although they 

 all vanished " like magic." It is claimed 

 by him who founded and built up this 

 business, that it is the original and only 

 HONEY HOUSE — all Others were, and are, 

 magic imitations. When you are badly 

 scared at something you don't understand, 

 just " clamor," make a big noise, and it 

 will reassure you, and you won't see the 

 hobgoblin any more. 



Mr. B. says "honey dealers will prostitute 

 fancy comb honey in boxes and frames, if 

 they have it in their power, and will so 

 have their revenge." Revenge on whom? 

 Does he confess to having done this him- 

 self, and is he afraid that others have 

 learned his trick, and will do it themselves 

 and he lose his trade y I could give names 

 of honey producers having reported to me 

 of other honey producers feeding sugar to 

 make comb-honey, and one who fed such 

 common brown sugar that he lost his lit- 

 tle retail trade at home ; and a short time 

 ago I called upon a very prominent bee- 

 keeper and took tea witli him, and in the 

 course of the conversation at table, spoke 

 of feeding, and he stated that he had fed a 

 whole barrel of sugar to one hive as fast as 

 tliey would take it in ; just then he looked 

 hurriedly at his wife, and changed the 



subject; he did not ask her what she 

 stepped on his toes ior— he knew. That 

 hive must have swarmed once a week 

 through the season, or have made a deal 

 of box honey. 



Every one interested in comb honey, 

 says: " do not use foundation for surplus 

 honey." I suppose I should properly 

 join in that same cry, as it will affect my 

 trade in jars. I would here state that I can 

 make light foundation with ten square feet 

 to the pound, or anywhere down to five 

 square feet to the pound ; the lighter in 

 weight the shallower the cell. I don't 

 pretend to know which is best; "you 

 pays your money and you takes your 

 choice." I would advise all to use found- 

 ation sparingly, this year, or rely on 

 the experiments of others until it becomes 

 a fact whether or no it will pay to use 

 them or not, either in surplus boxes or 

 brood chamber. 



Since Mr. B. asks the question, I will 

 say there is a lie mixed up somewhere in 

 his figures. I will fill the frames of an 

 ordinary Langstroth hive with less than 

 one pound of foundation, but probably it 

 would take a full pound to furnish wax to 

 complete the cells. 



This is my eleventh year in the honey 

 business, and I have simply sought to sup- 

 ply the demand for honey in its various 

 forms and conditions. I have no choice 

 between selling liquid or comb honey, in 

 boxes or jars. I sell liquid honey in large 

 quantities, at home and all over the states 

 ^sell some small box honey to the city 

 trade only — but do not ship any, as it will 

 not ship safely. I cut immense quantities 

 of comb honey to pack in glass jars, which 

 I guarantee to ship safely, and pay for all 

 that arrives in bad order. 



Mr. B. had to sell his small fancy box 

 honey shipped to this market, to cut into 

 jars the past season. 



I had an order a few days ago, from a 

 large jobber in canned goods, for comb 

 honey in jars, who has bought a great 

 deal of my goods in past years ; but 

 two years ago a " honey producer " in- 

 duced him to believe that his goods were 

 purer than mine, and sold him a small 

 stock of jar honey. It was not neatly put 

 up, and sold slowly, and, of course, soon 

 candied, even sooner tlian mine, (being 

 ^«re/' ?) and was unsalable. I always ex- 

 change fresh goods for candied goods, but 

 this producer would not do this and so 

 they were stuck and would not buy any 

 goods of me until they were sold which 

 had to be done at a loss. The house 

 wrote that they had " quit fooling around" 

 and would give me their orders as usual 

 hereafter. The same thing occurred to a 

 large grocery jobbing house here in the 

 city a short time ago. The jobber pre- 

 fers jar honey because it will ship safely 

 and box honey will not. The retail grocer 

 prefers it because it does not break down 



