16 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



January, 1920 



THE OLD LESSON TAUGHT AGAIN 



A Careless Shipper of Comb Honey Suffers the 

 Usual Loss 



Some lesso)is have to be taught and re- 

 taught, repeated and re-repeated, in bee- 

 keeping as in every other industry. One of 

 these is the caution as to packing honey for 

 shipment — either comb or extiaeted. Con- 

 stantly and everywhere the individual ship- 

 per is poorly packing his honey, with conse- 

 quent loss to himself and detriment to the 

 whole beekeeping industry. 



It is the careless packer of honey who is 

 today to blame for the high freight rates 

 (and going higher) on all honey shipments. 

 The careless, thoughtless honey-shipper 

 makes the whole honey industry suffer by 

 his perverseness. 



A shipment of comb honey received a few 

 days ago by the Airline Honey department 

 of The A. I. Eoot Company at Medina was 

 so badly damaged because of gross careless- 

 ness in preparing it for shipment, that we 

 want to let it, with the aid of our camera, 

 serve as still another warning against care- 

 lessness in shipping the beekeepers ' product. 



This honey came from a point in New 

 York State, not far from Buffalo — a dis- 

 tance of about 200 miles .from Medina. The 

 quality was excellent, bringing a good round 



price. Yet when the producer of this fine 

 honey came to ship it, he put the comb-hon- 

 ey cases into any sort of old boxes (as will 

 be seen in the accompanying il instigation), 



Some of the broken and drained comb honey ready 

 to be melted up. 



Here are tlie buxes in w*iich the ill-fjiiied. eomb-honey shipment was made. Thea-e was no paikins; placed 

 in^j^Jle .i^py pif these b^jies to protect the frail honey shipping cases. 



