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13, 13)/., 14, 14>^. 15, lojA, IG, 16>^, so that I know what is in each 

 case of 24: of weight and color. Is this right and what would you 

 do with honey that varies like the above? Having those pictures 

 on page 35 will help one to grade his own honey."' 



The Colorado rules have been brought quite prominently to 

 the front, and in many ways are. no doubt, the most thorough of 

 anv we have. I have some times wondered if the rules were not 

 so strict that they were a little unjust to the Colorado bee-keepers, 

 for the reason that in some cases at least their Xumber 1 honey 

 has been sold in the East by the buyer as Fancy and their Xumber 

 2 as Xumber 1. AA'hile this bespeaks much credit for the Colorado 

 grading. I can see where it might be unjust to them, in selling a 

 Xumber 1 honey at a Xumber 2 price. 



Following I am giving you the opinion of Air. Rauchfuss 

 regarding the pictures. 



"Dear Sir: — Assuming that you wish us to answer questions 

 contained in your letter of the .25th inst. regarding illustrations and 

 specimen sections (on page 35 of Review), from standpoint of the 

 honey dealer we want to say that the illustration of the fancy 

 would be satisfactory to us if this represents the poorest of that 

 grade and no section in that grade to weigh less than 13^ ounces. 

 Honey, comb and cappings to be white. Your illustration of the 

 X'^o. 1, is, according to our grading, nothing but a good, average Xo. 

 2 grade, for the reason that there are some uncapped cells along 

 the top, besides the row next to the wood, and on the left side, 

 near the middle, is a small projection on the cappings where evi- 

 dently a brace had been built over to the separator. If a section 

 of this finish is built between separators it will usually not come 

 up to our standard of I31/2 ounces for X'^o. 1 grade. Illustration of 

 X'o. 2 shows a section entirely too light for average trade: as far a:; 

 we can judge by the illustration this section would not weigh more 

 than 8 ounces. 



"The objection to the use of pictures to designate grades is 

 that finish only can be shown, but not color. 



"We are thoroughly in favor with your eft'orts to get uniform 

 grading rules established all over the country, if such a thing is 

 possible, and standards should be adopted by supply manufacturers 

 for tmiform, outside dimensions of shipping cases, to do away with 

 the variation in length and height of the same style of cases, which 

 is quite annoying in loading cars and stacking honey in warehouse, 

 besides spoiling the looks of the goods. 



"According to our opinion one of the principal causes of the 

 lack of interest shown hx dealers in the big cities to handle comb 

 honey, is the lack of uniformity of this article, as packed by the 

 majority of producers. The bee journals have not done as much 



