THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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Editor Review : 



Am sending you a sample of honey by 

 mail; also honey report. Cannot give 

 a report of 1911 and 1912, as I do not 

 keep a record of crop. This year's crop 

 is about the same as the two previous 

 years. No basswood this year. Have 

 twenty cases of clover extracted honey, 

 two 60-pound cans to the case, that is 

 for sale. Never had better quality of 

 honey than this. 



Irving Price, 

 Union City, Mich. 



Aug. 14, 1912. 



secured from 9c to 10c per pound for, 

 dependent upon quality and quantity 

 sold. 



We can furnish our readers with one 

 gallon square flat top tin syrup cans 

 with 1%" screw cap, in cases made of 

 175 pounds double-faced corrugated pa- 

 per, with an outside case of the same 

 material, thus making a case enclosed 

 in a box to comply with the parcel post 

 regulations, at $11.00 per hundred cans. 

 This heft corrugated paper is the heft 

 used in shipping by freight and express 

 packages up to 40 pounds in weight, 

 while our package weighs but 14 

 pounds, we having our cases made of 

 dionble thickness paper on all sides, thus 

 insuring a package that will stand the 

 usage of the mail. These packages are 

 intended for use in mailing a gallon 

 of honey from the producer direct to 

 the consumer. They can be sent inside 

 of 150 miles for 18 cents, for they 

 weigh but 14 pounds when filled with 

 honey. They should be marked 

 "Fragile," then they will not be thrown 

 out of the car but handled as carefully 

 as express. Those we mailed were 

 marked at the upper left hand corner as 

 follows : 



Honey — Hermetically scaled. 



From the Bee-Keepers' Review, 



Northstar, Mich. 



There is no change in the honey 

 market since our last report. The 

 clover belt has a good crop of excellent 

 quality of honey, also there will be the 

 usual crop of alfalfa honey. Wisconsin 

 has about all the basswood honey there 

 is produced this year, and this is mixed 

 with clover but has the characteristic 

 of the basswood. As small fruit has 

 considerable to do with the consump- 

 tion of honey, and is reported scarce 

 this year, honey will likely be about the 

 price as last year unless producers get 

 "panick" and let go at the first offer. 

 \Vhat we have sold thus far we have 



Editor Review : I don't like to both- 

 er you by asking questions but how 

 much had I ought to ask for good No. 

 I comb honey on board cars at my 

 station? I remain, yours truly, 



Edward Wilson. 

 Rt. 1, Whitteniore, Mich., Aug. 1, 1913. 



[Member Wilson : You do not say 

 who you propose to sell your fine clover 

 comb honey to, so under the circum- 

 stances will have to quote you about 

 three different prices that we would ask 

 for your crop of honey, dependent upon 

 which way 3-0U sell. If you propose to 

 sell to the grocer trade, perhaps 19c per 

 pound in a few case-lots of this 

 kmd would be about right this year. If 

 you sell at retail, by the case, two or 

 three cents more should be asked to 

 pay for your time selling in such small 

 (luantities. If you sell to the jobbing 

 trade in a "lump," likely you will have 

 to take a couple of cents less than you 

 would get of the grocer, and perhaps 

 pay the freight besides. Our best 

 salesmen are getting about this price 

 thus far this season, and likely you can 

 do as well if you do a little "hustling."' 

 —Ed.] 



Pure Cane Syrup, Direct From the 

 Producer to the Consumer. 



One of our members in Alabama is 

 a producer of Pure Cane Syrup, and 

 will have 2,000 gallons to market in 

 Xovember. He has consented to put 

 this pure syrup up in gallon screw cap 

 syrup cans, six in a wooden case, the 

 same case as is used to case up our 

 <)0-lb. cans of honey, and ship it direct 

 to his brother bee-keeper, f. o. b. Mo- 

 bile, Ala., for on.y $4.50 per case of six 

 cans. This syrup is boiled until it reg- 

 isters 32° Bune scale, then canned while 

 boiling hot. There is but one way you 

 can secure a case of this fine syrup 

 for your f amilj- use ; that is to place 

 your order some little time in advance, 

 for, what is not sold before November 

 will go to the sugar refinery. If there 

 are any of our subscribers who would 

 care for a case of this syrup, direct 

 from the producer, we would be pleas- 

 ed to book your order at the present 

 time, then the brother south can get his 

 cans in readiness for his November 

 crop. 



National Bee-Keepers' Ass'n., 



Northstar, Michigan. 



