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vantage will be the uniformity of the different producers' goods 

 when packed by one person. 



An association that will institute the central packing station 

 idea can do away with the glass front case, and can pack comb 

 honey in cartons, stamping the grade on the outside of the box. It 

 is no more necessary to have a case of honey glassed than it is to 

 have a box of apples with a glass side. There are probably from a 

 half dozen to a score of places in each of the comb honey producing 

 states where the packing stations could be established. Take the 

 eity of Boulder as an example. There are seven honey producers 

 within twelve miles of the city wdio have more than one hundred 

 colonies. This year something over a car of comb honey will be 

 produced and probably a car of extracted, if it was all brought to- 

 gether. 



Let us take the car of comb honey. Have each producer bring 

 in his comb honey in supers with the section separators removed, 

 also all the bait combs. A room, preferably a store room with 

 north windows, could be rented close to the railroad switch for $25 

 a month. Each producer has his name or number on each super 

 and each has a place in the room separate from the others to pile his 

 honey. The scraping and casing tables are to be placed at the front 

 of the building, close to the windows, for light. Twenty-five dollars 

 will construct tables and scraping apparatus for three or four scrap- 

 ers, one grader and one man or boy to nail up the cases. The grader 

 should be foreman. Three women scrapers can scrape one hundred 

 cases a day, if they are good workers ; and when they get their 

 hand in they can run up to fifty cases each. The boy nailing ship- 

 ping cases cannot go beyond seventy-five or a hundred cases a day, 

 and if he cannot nail cases as fast as needed another boy can be 

 secured. The grader-packer should be able to grade and pack from 

 a hundred to a hundred and fifty cases a day. 



The scrapers scrape everything and the grader sorts otit all culls. 

 puts them back in the owner's supers, and they are disposed of by 

 the owner himself. 



Twelve hundred and fifty cases for comb honey will cost about 

 3G cents each, or $200. 'We will allow two cents each for nailing up 

 cases, or $25 for the 1250. I have had all my cases nailed together 

 for one cent each, but we want to allow enough for all the work so 

 that there will be no kickers after the central packing scheme is 

 started. It will cost five cents a case to have the honey scraped 

 and cleaned. AVomen and girls can earn from 75 cents to $2.50 a 

 day at this work. The grading and packing is the important part, 

 as the one who does this has to be in charge of the others. He 

 should get five cents a case for the packing and superintending and 

 can earn from $4.00 to $7.00 a day. And so we have $62.50 for 



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