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APR. 1, 1888. 



No. 7. 



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SMALL SECTIONS OF HONEY. 



A FIVE-CENT PACKAGE OF COMB HONEY, ALREADY 

 WORKED OUT AND IN THE MARKET. 



XT was just 12 o'clock at night when I 

 m reached my sister's in Manistee ; and 

 M my leave of absence was so brief that I 

 ^ had to leave at 12 o'clock next day at 

 noon ; and during these brief hours I 

 was to see mv sister and the little flock of 

 eight around her. Some of them I had nev- 

 er seen before at all. Then, of course, I 

 must look at my brother-in-law's store and 

 fine business ; and, knowing where my curi- 

 osity lay, he took me to see their " farm " as 

 they called it, a few blocks away, and which 

 consisted, perhaps, of five acres, more or 

 less. I admired the plum-trees (they are 

 great on plum-trees in Manistee), and I ad- 

 mired the strawberries and their l)eautiful 

 sandy soil that seems so specially adapted 

 to fruit culture. C'lose by was a little green- 

 house. You know I always have to look in- 

 side of greenhouses. Well, over the fence 

 from the greenhouse was a bee-keeper. 

 The minute I got my eye on his premises I 

 thought I had found a little paradise, if I 

 may be excused the expression. The friend 

 who kept the bees loved strawberries and 

 raspberries and garden-stuff. The garden 

 was carpeted with white sand, without a 

 trace of a weed ; and the neat regular order 

 of every thing, even if it was in December, 

 quite captivated rny fancy. I found the 

 owner in a poultry-house, and there was an 



incubator. The different kinds of fowls 

 were divided off into such tasty little apart- 

 ments that I decided at once we had come 

 across an original genius. I began collect- 

 ing facts, and storing up information for 

 the readers of Gleanings, about as rapidly 

 as I did that summer evening when I went 

 to see friend White's carp-pond. The ar- 

 rangements for the nests, the arrangements 

 for the feed, the arrangem.ents for rapid 

 work, etc., were all taken in at a glance, 

 lie asked me to look at his bees. They 

 were not out in the yard inside of the hives 

 that were so neatly and tastily placed on the 

 same carpet of vvhite sand, for our friend 

 Wm. Harmer has his hives so made that the 

 inside parts only may be lifted out and stor- 

 ed in the cellar. I wanted to take a look 

 at the bees in the cellar ; but before I got 

 down cellar my eyes fastened on some little 

 sections of honey, just such as I tried to 

 make more than ten years ago. I did not go 

 down cellai- just then, but "went" for the 

 little sections. 



"Look here, old friend, you are indeed a 

 genius if you have gone and worked out this 

 problem of five-cent packages of comb hon- 

 ey." 



" Well, Mr. Root, I have spent some time 

 and pains on it, and I believe I have 

 brought it practically to perfection too.'" 



"Why, have you really put these on the 

 market, and made a business of it V " 



" Well, I have sold several thousand." 



You may be sure I was all eyes and ears ; 



