THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 5 



ers. Express companies accept and carry bees either with or with- 

 out combs. This would be a good argument to present in our case. 



Then there is a provision for mailing "live insects." Perhaps 

 bees by the pound (without comb), will be accepted under this 

 clause. 



Twenty-five 4-pound packages, 100 pounds, from zone 5, at 30c 

 each, would amount to $7.50 ; while the express rate on an even 

 100 pounds is $5. .50, and less from some of the nearer points. 



It looks to me as if the expre^^s companies would still do our 

 heavy handling, the Parcels Post the small packages up to eleven 

 Dounds. — Town send. 



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Make Every Producer His Own Middleman. 



Making every producer of honey his own middle-man. would be 

 an ideal condition. Can it be done? Likely not. There is really 

 no excuse for a producer dividing his crop of honey with some one. 

 for, if he is intelligent enough to manage a yard of a hundred col- 

 onies of bees, he can surely learn the secret of selling his honey 

 crop direct to the bottler or honey peddler, at least. Cut out the 

 man who buys and resells in original packages, say the 60-lb. can. 

 if extracted honey. 



If one sells to a middle-man it must be sold at such a price that 

 the dealer can make a cent or two per pound, plus the freight 

 charges to his place of business, or it would not be to his advantage 

 to buy. We have saved this commission for a good many years 

 by advertising our honey through the bee journals, thus getting in 

 "touch" with the same honey peddlers and bottlers the dealers sell 



