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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



Mr. J. Allan's Oakleigh Apiary with residence in the rear and honey house at the right. Mr. Allan is 



one of New Zealand's leading bee-keepers and is president ot the 



Southland Bee-Keepers' Association. 



crops, using- fancy only for perfect sections of honey. The Col- 

 orado rules are a little too strict in some ways, not elastic enough 

 as to weight to suit all conditions, as I have had finely finished 

 white honey that would fall ^^2 to 1 pound below the Number 1 

 weight, requiring Number 2 grade to be assigned it. This wrongs 

 the producer, as practically in poor years we may not have a case up 

 to full weight in 1,000 cases, but according to Colorado rules, we 

 would have to drop 25c to 35c a case, in price, on account of one 

 pound shortage. I think there should be some way of grading this 

 as Number 1 and indicating the weight. The dealer who retails 

 his honey by the cake gets full price, and the producer ought not to 

 lose more than the actual shortage in the weight according to the 

 class or grade to which the quality and finisii of the honey would 

 justly entitle it. But to allow any honey to be put in a case for 

 general market as poor as 3'our sample of Number 2 would be a 

 detriment to all producers, as when you allow so bad a sample to 

 be put into a case, there are so many bee-keepers of so many ideas 

 as to what is fair in selling, it is likely there would be a mixture 

 of culls sold for Number 2 as to disgust every one who would g^et 

 a case of it, while Ijy holding a Number 2 to a good fair weight, 

 but allowing some imperfections in finish it enables producers to 

 sell at a fair price what would otherwise be on hand to dispose of. 

 Possibly would call Number 1 such a grade, but Number 1 to most 



