Feb. 6, 1902. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



87 



to |>iit Ills boi's oil Ills farm but a liOMoy-houso as long as he 

 required It; and also to haul his bnes a distance of 'M iiiilos 

 free of cliarKO, so stroii^lv was tho man Impressed with Itie 

 value of bees as polleiilzcrs of lilossoms. 



Mr. McKvoy Rave the hisloiy of the Spraying Act. 



A roniTiiuiiicatiuii from SimiMK^ Association was read. At 

 the annual iru'etint; a ri'siilutioii was passed, that tlici Assoi'la- 

 tlon wishes the Ontario lice-Keepers' Association to place 

 Ijormanent placards In publht places with that portion of the 

 Act with regard in prevention o/ spraying/ntit-lrees zv/ii/c in 

 htootn. 



(iUKHTION DHAWKK — MU. KliOWN ANSWKniNO. 



Quos. — Should honey bo strained or skimmed? 



Ans. — I strain It. 



Mr. McEvoy — Sklni, always ; say after two weeks. 



Mr. Shaver — If exposed two weel;s, will it not lose llavor ? 



Mr. McEvoy — Yes, a little, but if dead-ripe, not much. 



Mr. Dickinson — I want hoiu^y strained throiij,'h two 

 cloths, one coarse and another liner. 



Mr. Pare — The rijier the honey, the less sediment. 



]\lr. Newton — I agree with Mr. Dickinson. At MiilTalo 

 they admired the clearness of Ontario honey. 



Mr. Sibbald — It Is useless to dismiss this any. One should 

 strain and skim. 



Mr. Dickinson — There are bee-keepers out to learn and 

 we want to teach them to strain. 



.lames Armstrong — If you have to skim at all why not do 

 aw.ay with the strainer? 



Mr. Smith — I believe in skimmin"' and straininji-, but 

 there are lots who do not. 



Mr. FIxter — One of the best bee-keepers In Russell county 

 does not strain his honey. 



Mr. McEvoy — A sediment settles. 



A Member — What you skim off is pollen-grains. 



Mr. Holtermann — Do not imagine that pollen will float. 

 The specific gravity of this is fjreater than honey, as it will 

 sink. 



Pros. Evans — I strain honey, but do not skim. 



The convention adjourned to meet next year in ISarrie. 



Contributed Articles, i 



Selling Comb Honey by the Case. 



BY M. A. GILL. 



I have read with interest wliat has been said about th^ 

 (so-called) Colorado plan of selling honey by the case. I 

 will say that there are some features about comb honey that 

 puts it in the class with cased goods. 



We buy our fruit, oysters, and canned vegetables, by the 

 ease, and they are retailed by the can, and we don't question 

 whether they are exactly pints, quarts or pounds. 



Again, if a case of comb honey has been so established that 

 it is, we will say, two pounds short, it is not the fault of the 

 producer, but the manufacturer who has established the size 

 for us to use ; however, it does something towards paying 

 us for the trouble and tare on the package, and the great con- 

 venience of the goods pays the retailer for what he and the 

 customer imagine as tlicir loss. Most buyers never think of 

 buying any other way than by the case in this section of the 

 country. 



The buyer to whom I sold my last car of comb honey the 

 past season, on first seeing the honey, said : 



"My people will insist on this honey weighing out 22 

 pounds per case." 



"Very well," I said, "if they will pay me pro rata per 

 pound what it weighs above 22 pounds per case." 



"Oh, no," said he, "we don't care if it weighs 30 pounds." 



I told him there was 1200 cases of honey, that there was 

 a chisel and a pair of scales, and that he could examine to 

 his heart's content ; but that if he bought it, it would be by 

 the case — at $2.80 per case. 



He bought the honey, and subsequently told me he weighed 

 about 40 cases, and, that it weighed from 221.4 to 24 pounds, 

 net. Now he may think he bought by weight, but I think I 

 sold by the case. 



Again, it is not always convenient for us to weigh a car 

 load of honey, but we always know it will weigh so much, 



if we have graded it according lo the rules of the Slate Asso- 

 ciation, 



I have known one qiiilc extensive buyer who would buy 



by the iioiind, then sell his light weights by the piece and 

 his heavy by the pound. I conclude by this that all the virtues 

 arc not held by the buyers and dealers. 



I insist again that the convenience of the package must, 

 and docs, pay the dealer and consumer for the ounce of honey 

 they think they have lost, which, in fact, they have. 



When I say the consumer has lost an ounce of honey I 

 want it understood that his loss has not come through the 

 producer, for when we say we want so much for 21 pounds 

 or 22 pounds, we furnish that much. This is as far as our 

 conscience goes — but to my certain knowledge too often the 

 jobber sells what he has bought for 22 pounds as 24 pounds 

 and the retailer sells the piece as 16 ounces if it is light, and 

 by the pound if it overruns. So when the producers are ac- 

 cused of sharp dealing you will find we are not the only 

 "pebbles on the beach." 



Mr. Burnett .says that after what he has written and 

 .said he looks for a lot of ignorance to be dispelled. I hope this 

 is so, for it is always best to get rid of all the ignorance we 

 can. But more surely in the future than in the past will Colo- 

 rado's crop of comb honey move by the case than by the 

 pound. We will see that it is done upon an equitable basis, 

 but we will enjoy the same convenience as other producers of 

 cased goods. Boulder Co., Colo. 



Extracting House on Wheels— Other Conveniences. 



BY A. .MOTTAZ. 



Last summer, for the second season. I used my extracting 

 house on wheels, with much satisfaction. Diameter 13 feet 

 long by 8 feet wide, sides 6 feet high, roof round, made of 

 2 thicknesses of one-half inch boards with tarred building- 

 paper between. Floor, inch flooring laid lengthwise on 2x4 

 resting on two sills 2x8, hay-rack fashion. Frame, 2x2 all 

 around: cotton sheeting tacked on under, and one-half inch 

 boards up and down. 



The sills project behind 10 or 12 inches to receive on top 

 a 2-inch plank for a door-step for convenience in going in 

 and out, and also to rest one end of the plank on which is to 

 run the wheel-barrow on when extracting. 



Two single sash windows opposite each other, are on each 

 side about four feet from the rear corner ; and one in front 

 to see to drive the team. 



The wagon or running-gear is an old heavy wagon-gear 

 with Electric steel wheels, 28 and 32 inches high. 



The wheelbarrow's wheel is a cultivator iron wheel ; the 

 barrow's frame rests on two blocks 5 or 6 inches higher than 

 the wheel's axle; it has long legs in proportion so as to stand 

 about level: the object is to have it on a level with the ex- 

 tracting table in the house, so as to be able to roll it right 

 on the platform, which lies loose on the barrow's_ frame, and 

 having castor wheels underneath. I have two platforms : when 

 the full one (they hold two hives each) is extracted, it is 



nOXET-WAGOX OF A. MOTTAZ. 



