June 15, 1911 



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course, to furnish whatever the jjublic wants. 

 —Ed.] 



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TWENTIETH-CENTURY SHIPPING-CASES. 



Modem Methods of Shipping, by which a Large 



Part of the Leakage and Breakage of Combs 



will be Eliminated. 



BY E. R. ROOT. 



For several years back, both i)roducers 

 and buyers of comb honey have been grad- 

 ually coming to the conviction that strong- 

 er and better shipi)ing-cases are demanded 

 by the trade; and that the policy of buying 

 the cheapest shipping-cases that can be ob- 

 tained, or, worse still, having them made at 

 some local i^laning-mill. would, if continu- 

 ed, ultimately kill the comb-honey business, 

 leaving the field exclusively to extracted 

 honey or bulk or chunk honey. The very 

 fact that coml>honey jiroducers have been 

 changing over to the i)roduction of extract- 

 ed honey, that extracted honey is constant- 

 ly coming nearer and nearer to the price of 



FIG. 1. 

 comb honey, and that some comb-honey 

 buyers are refusing to take comb honey any 

 more, shows only too plainly that the comb- 

 honey business is doomed unless saner and 

 safer methods are used for shipping the prod- 

 uct; and, furthermore, there are not a few 

 evidences to show that transportation com- 

 l)anies are liable to advance the rates on 

 comb honey. Taking all of these things 

 into consideration, the movement toward 

 saner methods of shipping so fragile a com- 

 modity has begun none too soon. We have 

 been informed that several of the manufac- 



turers of bee-supplies expect to put on the 

 market, this year or next, heavier and strong- 

 er shii)ping-cases. Whether they will all be 

 of the jiattern here shown we are not ad- 

 vised. 



The subjoined illustrations show some 

 such shipping-cases patterned after the mod- 

 ern reguirements. In all of them it will be 

 observed that each individual section is put 

 into a cheap carton without to]) or bottom. 



In the bottoms and ends of the cases and on 

 top is placed corrugated i)aper. When the 

 cases are made double-tier, a sheet of the 

 same material is jjlaced between the two 

 tiers; and speaking of double-tier cases re- 

 minds us of the fact that this case for 24 

 sections is slightly stronger than a case of 

 the same capacity where the sections are all 

 in one tier; for the nearer a box or package 

 can approach the shape of a cube, other 

 things being etjual, the stronger it can be 

 made. Another advantage in favor of the 

 double-tier case is that it allows the manu- 

 facturer to use the same size of covers and 

 bottoms, and the same size of glass that he 

 uses in the 12-lb. size, single-tier. The dis- 

 advantage of the double-tier cases is that 

 they do not stack uj) quite as well. This is 

 an advantage in another way — namely, that 

 it prevents ])lacing too great a weight on 

 the case that may be at the bottom. How- 

 ever, the slightly deeper carton, as will be 

 shown, will largely overcome this. 



In this issue Dr. 

 Miller, who has for 

 years used a 24-1 b. sec- 

 tion-case, declares in 

 favor of the double- 

 tier case; and it is our 

 opinion that, inas- 

 much as this case is 

 stronger, and costs no 

 more than the same 

 capacity of single- 

 tier, it should be used 

 by the trade general- 

 ly- 



It will be noticed 

 f u r t h e r that the 

 Twentieth - century 

 cases are made heavi- 

 er. The ends are 

 thicker; the sliding- 

 cover feature is aban- 

 doned; and it is found that the scheme of 



FIG. 4. 



