AUGUST 1. 1910 



NEW DESIGN NEEDED FOR COMB-HONEY CARRIERS 



677 



BY F. GREINER 



For some years I have been shipping my 

 comb honey without tlie use of carriers for 

 the shipping-cases for the reason that I 

 have been enabled to load whatever the 

 number of cases I wanted to ship in thru 

 cars with fruit being shi^jped from this 

 point in car lots. I have quite a quantity of 

 the carriers on hand, but I make use of 

 tliem only on rare eases. 



The supply dealers are not aware, it 

 seems, that a different ruling is in force now 

 as to these carriers. The fact is that the 

 railroad companies in the East will not 

 accept such carriers as are now listed in the 

 new price lists of 1910. The old design was 

 all right up to the fall of 1915 ; but at this 

 time the carrier must be enclosed all around 

 — in other words, it must be a tight box. I 

 was put to the trouble of unpacking a small 

 shipment last fall and remodeling the car- 

 riers to meet the requirements. Another 

 beekeeper here had to unpack his whole 

 crop and fix the carriers over, making him 

 a very unpleasant and laborious job, to say 

 nothing of the extra amount of lumber that 

 liad to be used. 



Our transit companies get some funny 

 ideas into their heads sometimes — for in- 

 stance, the ruling now in force on egg- 

 crates. These must be just so — regular 

 style, nothing codgelt ujd will be accepted. 

 I attempted to ship a crate a few days ago 

 Avhich had been remodeled from a substan- 

 tial lemon-box. The express office called me 

 up and told me that I must come back and 

 repack the eggs into a regular style of crate. 

 Manufacturers of carriers will do Avell to 

 see to it that their carriers conform to the 

 rulings of the railroad companies. 



HARMONIOUS COLORS FOR LABELS. 



For honey-labels of any size, particularly 



for tin i^ackages and pails, a white and 

 yellow backgTound with black printing har- 

 monize well. Let the white jjaper be cover- 

 ed all over with light-yellow bees — no sharp 

 dark lines in the bee — white lines drawn all 

 thru the bees, to make the bees not incon- 

 spicuous, but to appear, from a little way 

 off, as a very light yellow with the white 

 IDaper. Upon this paper should be printed 

 in very large conspicuous type the word 

 " Honey " so when a pail or can stands on 

 the grocer's shelf it may be easily read from 

 a distance. The less other reading on the 

 label, the better; but the name and address 

 of the producer as well as the number of 

 pounds or ounces should be given. Such 

 labels might be made of any size, from very 

 small, suitable for section boxes or small 

 tumblers, up to 60-lb. cans, etc. They 

 .should not be very expensive. 



A straw skep could also be used in the 

 manner above mentioned for a background 

 in lieu of the bee. For honey labels noth- 

 ing could be more appropriate. 



SENDING GRANULATED HONEY BY PARCEL 

 POST.- 



There is nothing to hinder the shipping 

 of granulated honey in tin — possibly ■ in 

 paper also — by parcel post. I have not 

 dared to send liquid honey in this manner, 

 altho put up in friction-top tin pails. 



We must guard in every possible manner 

 against the possible soiling of other mai! 

 matter with honey. A package of comb 

 honey was retained in our postoffice hen- 

 because of the leakage. It is not practical 

 io ship 'comb honey by parcel post except 

 when put up in tin and tightly sealed. 

 Comb honey will always be badly broken in 

 transit when shipped by parcel post. 



Naples, N. Y. 



MARKETING HONEY ON RUBBER TIRES 



BY LEWIS L. WTNSHIP 



During the season of 1915 I produced 

 about 500 pounds of honey in v.\l — a little 

 more than 400 pounds of which was extract- 

 ed. About half the extracted, and all the 

 comb, was sold at home. 



As we own an automobile, and were sell- 

 ing other things from house to house, I hit 

 upon the idea of carrying a few dozen jars 

 of honey. This plan did not occur to m.e 

 until the latter part of August; and from 

 that time on, ten or twelve dozen jars of 

 lioney were a regular part of our load. 1 



sold these jelly-jars of honey, holding an 

 average of eight ounces, for 90 cents to 

 $1.25 a dozen. They moved readily; and at 

 nearly every store where they had none on 

 hand I made a sale. The.se first sales were 

 necessaril}^ small — only a dozen or two in a 

 place. I was counting on only the one sale ; 

 and wherever T sold any I took the name 

 of the firm for future reference. 



My own honey was soon sold, and I saw 

 that I would have to buy outside honey if 

 rav side line was continncd. I ordered 120 



