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out much trouble, especially during 

 a good yield of honey, by any of the 

 old methods. But after the flow has 

 suddenly ceased, or at the end of the 

 season, when bees are fierce for rob- 

 bing and we wish to remove cases of 

 honey by dozens and scores rapidly, 

 then trouble begins in earnest. 



I want a plan whereby 1 can re- 

 move one or more cases in the morn- 

 ing, place them with the adhering 

 bees under protection, go about other 

 business for the day, and when I re- 

 turn at night, find that the bees have 

 all escaped and none have found the 

 way back again. I have tried wire 

 cloth cones with a small hole in the 

 apex, and much to my disgust have 

 seen the bees pass freely in and out. 

 Turning sheets or revolving windows 

 require too constant attention, and 

 are poor methods at best. 



. The best method I have found, and 

 the one I am still using for want of 

 something better, is a small building 

 with one window. The whole out- 

 side of the window is covered with 

 wire cloth, which projects some ten 

 inches above the window-frame, with 

 sufficient space for the bees to crawl 

 in and out. 



This is not my invention, and if it 

 were, I hardly think I should be very 

 proud of it, for after a time, the bees 

 find their way back again, and at 

 best, it is only a help. I would like 

 much to see this matter further dis- 

 cussed by those who may know of 

 better methods. 



I think myself, that if anything is 

 found that proves to be a complete 

 success, it will be something that is 

 adjustable to a window. 



Lynn, Mass. 



SMALL PACKAGES OF 

 HONEY. 



By J. H. Martin. 



Small fancy packages seem to be 

 the tendency of the day for nearly 



all of the hfe-sustaining articles we 

 use. 



If we enter our grocer's we find all 

 kinds of eatables, relishes and condi- 

 ments put up in packages made to look 

 wonderfully inviting by bright-colored 

 labels and weighing from a few ounces 

 up to pounds. 



If we enter our drug stores what 

 an array of all manner of bottles and 

 boxes of all shapes and sizes and so 

 pretty and at the same time so use- 

 less, are arranged with artistic effect 

 to attract the eye and purse. 



Every beekeeper can remember 

 when honey was sold in five and ten 

 and perhaps fifteen-pound boxes, and 

 rough boxes at that, but now it is 

 hard to find anything larger than a 

 pound-section in the market, and an 

 occasional half-pound. While this 

 has been the progress, to small pack- 

 ages for comb-honey, extracted honey 

 has been put up in pails, cans, jars 

 and botdes of many sizes. These 

 pound packages have had a wonder- 

 ful influence in the^development of 

 our honey markets and the increased 

 consumption of honey has been the 

 result. 



But it seems that, at present, a fur- 

 ther educating influence must be 

 brought to bear upon people to teach 

 them that the candied state is the 

 best way to purchase extracted honey. 

 Our pound packages are for table 

 use and for whole famiUes. Our cane 

 sugar is also purchased by the pound 

 for the family, but it is also done up 

 in small packages in the shape of 

 candy of many hues and of many 

 nameless ingredients, and sold to the 

 individual for his or her own private 

 consumption, and how many tons of 

 it are sold all over our country ! If 

 our honey could be sold as confec- 

 tionery, this source alone would take 

 our entire crop. The beekeeper looks 

 upon this fact and mentally reasons : 

 Why cannot I put up my honey in 

 a manner to please the candy-loving 

 world and thus sell tons of it ? 



Honey cannot be worked like cane 



