1899 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



643 



ey-gate and vent-plug ; filled them with hon- 

 ey, and brought them back to town ; left one 

 at each store. The effect of this was, it in- 

 creased my honey sales wonderfully. After 

 once using these kegs you could not give 

 away honey to these grocers, in a five-gallon 

 can. 



My idea for retailing honey by the gallon is 

 a ten-gallon keg, made either out of wood 

 fiber or paper, with a neat crate around it. 

 This package is to be returned by the grocer. 

 Placing this package on the counter, with a 

 neat label on it, advertises the honey, and is a 

 pleasure to the grocer in selling. 



fiber top or cork. Eddy & Eddy, of St. Louis, 

 put up mustard in such a package, and I think 

 this package is the most suitable, for many 

 people would buy the first pitcher of honey 

 for the pitcher's sake. 



I write this in hopes that you will think it 

 over and get up a nice cheap honey-pitcher 

 and wood - fiber honey - keg at a reasonable 

 price. I feel sure these two styles of packages 

 are ahead of what we have now. The honey- 

 keg needs a nice smooth crate around it, made 

 so the grocer will have to remove only one 

 slat, screw in his honey-gate, loosen his vent- 

 plug, and be ready for business. 



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There is another benighted way we have of 

 selling honey ; that is, in glass tumblers (jel- 

 ly-glasses). If you fill these the hone)' will 

 work out and soil the labels, then no sane per- 

 son will ever buy the second glass of honey, 

 because it is worth more to take the cover off 

 than honey-glass and all are worth. Nine 

 times out of ten you chip the glass in taking 

 off the cover, and, of course, the pieces of glass 

 go into the honey, or at least we think so. As 

 a chicken is about the only bird that can di- 

 gest glass, we either throw the honey away or 

 spoil ten cents' worth of linen to strain five 

 cents' worth of honey. What shall we do for 

 this class of trade ? My ideal small package 

 would be a nice glass syrup-pitcher, pint and 

 quart size, either with metal top or a wood- 



fit is G. W. York, editor of the American 

 Bee Journal, who is arguing for square cans 

 as against kegs and barrels ; but as I agree 

 with him in the main I come in for my share 

 of your criticisms. 



In the first place, let me say that Mr. York, 

 although it is not generally known, handles 

 large quantities of extracted honey. Indeed, 

 I venture to say that he has had considerably 

 more experience with square cans, and kegs 

 and barrels, than any dozen average producers 

 all together, and his verdict is emphatically 

 in favor of the tin packages. 



One of your objections to the square cahs is 

 the difficulty of getting honey out of them ; 

 and that, therefore, the dealer will not sell 

 from them because of that fact. Why, my 



