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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



August, 1917 



G. W. Nance, Anthon, Iowa; 10,000 pounds of honey direct to the consumers. 



they are in a " blue funk " and cut the 

 price for fear that they can not sell, which 

 reminds me that " A fool and his honey are 

 soon iDarted." 



I have been raising and marketing honey 

 for ovier thirty-five years, and will say that 

 the price of this season's crop is about the 

 last thing I should worry about. For the 

 lasit four or five years we have been getting 

 ten to fifteen cents per pound for our fine 

 clover .extracted, none less than ten cents in 

 5 to 25 case lots in bulk just as it came from 

 the extractor. With the prices of all kinds 

 of fond products advanced fifty to one 

 hundred per cent there is no likelihood that 

 honey will go downward unless other tilings 

 do. 



For this season's entire crop, be it large 

 or small, we have a standing offer of twelve 

 cents at Oberlin ; but as we are now getting 

 fifteen at wholesale I see no reason why we 

 should not get as much or more for the new 

 crop. 



Oberlin, Ohio. Chalon Fowls. 



whatever I may need up to 600 pounds. I 

 sell about $50 worth per day, at the rate 

 of five pounds for 75 cts. or a ten-pound 

 pail at $1.50. 



Anthon, Iowa. G. W. Nance. 



Fording Direct to the Consumers 



My apiary of 125 colonies produced 

 10,000 i30unds of honey last year. In the 

 foreground of the illustration is my Ford 

 honey-car by means of which I am able to 

 dispose of about all my crop direct to the 

 consumers. On making a trip I ship about 

 3000 pounds of honey ahead of me and 

 (lien come along in my Ford and pick ujd 



And so Could He Really Blame the 

 Other Fellow? 



June Gleanings is full of inteiv-slt as 

 usual, and I take it for granted you won't 

 expect even me to agree with everything. I 

 likewise take it for granted you'll say 

 " Flubdub !" likewise " Pish !" or even 

 " Tut ! tut !" at what follows : 



One time a ceiitain man sat him down 

 and inveighed bitterly at the minus-patri- 

 otism of a certain rich man. " The counti-y 

 needs powder; 50 cts. would give him a 

 good profit, and he insists on 75 cts. The 

 Benedict Arnold !" And hd wailed and 

 wrung his hands at the hardhearted. 



He also used strong words of wraith at 

 certain other men who bought up all the 

 grain of the land, even as did Pharaoh in 

 the days of Joseph, and sold it at a price, 

 whereat flour went skyward toward the $20 

 mark. " These men are the scum of the 

 earth! They grind the face of the poor, 

 and give them but dust to eat and the 

 grass by the roadside. Could th/ay corn?r 

 the air we breathe they would do so and sell 

 it at a great price. A lamppost and a rope 

 for each of them would be their just merit!" 

 And he smote the clapboards of his housa 



