1906 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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classification referred to honey in bottles; 

 that comb honey in a shipping-case with 

 glass fronts ought to go as second class be- 

 cause the percentage of glass was very 

 small to the amount of wood. All the rail- 

 roads, I think, now accept shipping-cases 



would not be just as good. If the freight- 

 handler can not read, he ought to be bounc- 

 ed from the pay-roll. Shipping-cases with 

 glass fronts have been broken into, and the 

 fine cakes of honey despoiled by some big 

 fingers, time and again. The Aspinwall 



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with glass fronts as second class. But the 

 bee-keeper must not make the mistake of 

 having such honey billed "in glass" or else 

 it will go at first-class rates. 



The Aspinwall case is a very unique one; 

 and if the discrimination against glass fronts 



case would prevent any thing of this 

 kind. 



The arrangement of the no- drip cleats in 

 mortises or slots in the ends of the case is 

 very unique. It could not, however, be very 

 well appHed to a glass- front case showing 



A CHEAP AND SERVICEABLE EXTRACTING-HOUSE. 



had continued the all- wood case with the let- 

 tering would have been the solution. 



The all-wood case can be made consider- 

 ably cheaper, and I do not know why it 



four sections six deep. But where the cases 

 are two-row, like the sample here shown, 

 there will be no trouble about mortising for 

 the cleats.— Ed.] 



