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The coniljined Aveight of this last-mentioned can and the cor- 

 rugated paper to wrap it ought not be more than two pounds, leav- 

 ing room for nine pounds of honey, making the maximum of 11- 

 pound weight acceptable. 



The postage on this eleven-pound package would be as follows : 

 Local, to be delivered from the office where mailed, either by city 

 or rural carriers, 15 cents ; for first 50 miles, 35 cents ; 150 miles, -Ifi 

 cents; 300 miles, 5y cents; 600 miles, GS cents; 1,000 miles, T9 cents; 

 1,400 miles, $1.00; l.SOO miles or over. $1.32. 



If the producer were to ofifer these 9-pound net cans of extracted 

 honey for sale to go by parcel post direct to the cousiiiiicr, at $1.50 

 per can, plus the postage, he would realize 15 cents a pound for his 

 honey, and hare left 15 cents toward paying for the can and 

 wrapper, which it would likely pay for entire. The consumer could 

 send a thousand miles and pay the postage rate of TO cents and 

 then get his honey at 25^^ cents a pound — about what it would 

 cost them in pound glass jars of their grocer. There is an unlimited 

 field along this line open to the producer at the present time, for, 

 when one once gets a trade worked up along this line, it Avould not 

 be long before large (club") orders would begin to come for freight 

 shipments in these same family cans. AA'ake up ! brother. — Townsend. 



A Suggestion for a Honey House. 



PREFERS FACTORY-MADE HI VES.— PROPERLY SEASONED LUMBER 

 FOR HIVE MAKING HARD TO GET. 



By L. C. WHEELER, Barryton, Michigan. 



'^^^ HE enclosed pen draAvings represent my honey house as it 

 ^J stands today. I am not sending it to you because I think 

 it is an ideal honey house by any means, but considering the 

 surroundings it suits me very well. The surface of the ground 

 around the house and bee-yard is perfectly flat and level, so there 

 is no chance to build on two levels, or I should have built it that 

 way. As it is I have tried to have things as handy as possible with 

 everything on one level. Drawing Xo. 1 represents the house as it 

 appears from the side next to our dwelling house. No. 2 shows the 

 ground floor plan, and the upper floor is just one solid room the size 

 of the whole building, or 16 by 30 feet. 



The work-shop is on the right as you look at the building, and 

 here is where I make lots of those little things I can make just as 

 well as to buv. I used to make my own hives and all, but have 

 decided that it did not pay. I do like hives that are absolutely 

 perfect, and while this is possible with the machine I have, it is 



