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so-called Number 2 shows the result to a frightful degree. AMiether 

 3^ou grade by the Colorado rules or any other rules T believe that 

 any intelligent person will agree with me that no section the comb 

 of which is attached only half way down on one side and but a 

 third on the other, and not coming closer than an inch to the bot- 

 tom, should be classed in any sliipping grade. It would not even 

 ship safely in one of ]\Ir. Crane's paper cases. I do not believe in 

 classing culls as grades at all. One man told me that if we adopted 

 such strict grading that he could not sell half his honey. My an- 

 swer was that his producing methods were forty years behind the 

 times. If half of one's honey is such as this so-called Number 2, it 

 is the fault of the bee-keeper and not that of the rules. 



"The section called Number 1 has a few open cells besides 

 those of the outside row next to the wood, which according to the 

 Colorado rules disqualifies it from the Number 1 grade, but I might 

 say that the fact is there is a good deal of honey no better capped 

 than this goes into the Number 1 grades. Bee-men are unwilling to 

 see the unsealed cells, it seems. A few mistakes are made by fail- 

 ing to look on both sides of a section when grading. 



"The Colorado rules now recognize four shipping grades, which 

 admits of more of the honey being uniform in the cases than when 

 there are but three grades. The nearer we can come to having 

 every section like the others in the case the better will the buyers 

 he satisfied. 



Apiary of Mr. Wm. Turns of Montague, Mich. These bees are 

 kept in the heart of town. 



