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sometimes I find it pretty hard to get everything packed away in it. 

 The honey house at the out yard is not designed to hold much when 

 in use, although I do fill it up in the fall and leave it that way till 

 I am ready to use it again in the spring. 



Comb Honey, Extracted Honey and the Masses. 



SOMETHING MORE ON THE GRADING QUESTION— FACING CONDEMNED 

 —GRADING SAMPLES USED— BURNETT AND MUTH CHAL- 

 LENGED—WOULD NOT PRODUCE COMB HONEY. 



By S. A. NIVER. 



[What one individual bee-keeper should produce and what the fraternitj- as a 

 whole should produce to obtain the greatest profit, may not be the same thing. 

 It is doubtless true that what trade cultivation is done should be largely he en- 

 couragement of extracted honey consumption. The facts of the case, however, 

 are that there is a great underproduction of a white article of comb honey. Comb 

 honey is more readily marketable in large amounts than is extracted. Our ex- 

 tracted trade must be extended if possible; our comb hojiey trade must be sup- 

 plied. So there you are, Brother Niver. What you say about number two honey 

 selling more readily than fancy is true in quite a good many markets. The trade 

 of the country is not all for Fancy and Number One, though these are far more 

 in demand for large orders. Your fancy grade in the tall section does not look 

 any better than the Number One. Perhaps the difference is in the weight. I 

 would not favor calling yooir fancy by that name — those unsealed cells should not 

 be found in a section of the best grade. — M. F.] 



*^*2V LLOA\' me to chip in on the grading by picture question. 

 y^^^\ The April, 1913, Review starts out in good style to thresh 

 out that much needed subject for settlement, "discussin' or 

 cussin' " and if you will go back to the August, 1904, Review^ you 

 can find my report of experiments — or rather actual business done 

 that way for a series of years. Putting each grade by itself, and 

 selling by count, instead of weight, proved very popular with the re- 

 tailer. The old way of ''facing" with fancy, and packing the culls at 

 the back of the crate, disgusted the grocer with the whole business, 

 as could be expected, but giving him a choice to fit his trade, and 

 guaranteeing every section to be as good or better than the sample 

 shown — not to average as good — but to average half-way to the next 

 higher grade, placed him in a position to know exactly how to price 



each grade for retailing. ''Take your choice for "' The consumer 



paid the same price per ounce of honey in every grade, and. mark 

 this down, the No. 2 sold out first every time. And one producer in 

 our honey company insisted on making his sections very heavy, not 

 being satisfied unless they ran '2o or ?'G poimds to .24 sections. Those 

 "stufifed prophets," as I called them, were so hard to dispose of on 

 my regular route, that I resorted to the plan of taking them alone 

 into another town situated in another state, where I did not show 

 my other samples. 



