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Question;) 'Box> 



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Stamping Sections of Hone}. 



Query 959.— Two neighbors differ in re- 

 gard to stamping sections. One puts his 

 stamp on all sections, before they are made 

 up. The other stamps only such sections as 

 are filled with first-class honey. Which is 

 right? And why?-W. M. B. 



Rev. M. Mahin — It is a mere matter 

 of fancy and convenvience. 



R. L. Taylor — It is a matter of fancy. 

 Let each one please himself. 



Eugene Secor— Both. They have a 

 perfect right to do their own business in 

 their own way. 



E. France— If I put honey on the mar- 

 ket I stamp it with my name, but grade 

 it 1st, 2udand 3rd. 



Dr. J. P. H. Brown — I have never 

 stamped any, but I should only stamp 

 those that were filled, and the ones for 

 sale. 



B. Taylor — I would prefer to stamp 

 the honey after it was stored. I take 

 care to have my stamp on superior goods 

 only. 



G. M. Doolittle — I can see nothing 

 along the line of right and wrong to 

 hinder any one doing as he pleases about 

 stamping sections. Can any one ? 



Mrs. L. Harrison— It might be well to 

 stamp all sections, and educate con- 

 sumers in the different kinds of honey. 

 I see no wrong, only a matter of choice. 



Prof. A. J. Cook — I see nothing wrong 

 in either. If you do, do not do it. If 

 some one orders of No. 2 such horney as 

 he labels with his stamp, he should send 

 as good. 



W. G. Larrabee — I prefer to stamp 

 only the marketable sections, for other- 

 wise the stamp is liable to be blurred 

 with propolis, or scratched off in clean- 

 ing the section. 



Mrs. Jennie Atchley — If he sells his 

 second-class sections he should stamp 

 them the same, but I would not stamp 

 until filled. Put your stamp on all you 

 sell, good or bad. 



J. E. Pond — This is an individual mat- 

 ter. I don't know that there is any 

 question of right or wrong about it. Of 

 course, stamping only flrst-class honey 

 will keep up a reputation. 



Dr. C. C. Miller— Either is right. The 

 stamp of the first shows that it's honey 

 of his producing, that of the second that 

 it's some of his best producing. Perhaps 

 the second is the better way. 



Mrs. J. N. Heater — Stamp everything 

 that goes on the market, and send noth- 

 ing out that you would not be willing to 

 own as your own honey. Every section 

 thus stamped is an advertisement for 

 you. 



H. D. Cutting — It depends upon your 

 market. I had honey at the World's 

 Fair with the producer's name on a 

 beautiful label put on every section, and 

 one buyer did not want it because of the 

 label. 



Rev. Emerson T. Abbott — This is not 

 a question of right or wrong in a morr.l 

 sense, if that is what you mean. People 

 who want to cater to the best trade pre- 



fer not to stamp anything but flrst-class 

 goods. They put all other on the market 

 without any name, to be sold at a re- 

 duced price to those who want that class 

 of goods, and I cannot see that any harm 

 is done to a customer by so doing. I do 

 not put my name on any poor goods, if I 

 know it. 



J. A. Green — I should advise stamping 

 only such as are first-class, unless the 

 stamp indicated the quality. The stamp 

 is useful only as an advertisement, and 

 it ceases to have any value when placed 

 on a poor article. Besides, it is apt to 

 mislead the consumer. 



James A. Stone — The latter — because 

 he harms no one by leaving his name off 

 the bad ones ; but he harms himself by 

 putting it on. Then sell each on its 

 merits. I have stopped putting on my 

 name — still they find out whose it is, and 

 enquire for my honey. 



C. H. Dibbern — I used to stamp my 

 sections before getting them filled — 

 "Choice White Clover Honey" — and 

 sometimes got nothing better than 

 "honey-dew" in them. I now only 

 stamp sections after they are filled, 

 which does not misrepresent the quality. 



G. W. Demaree — You must decide this 

 matter for yourself. The principle of 

 "right" is a "jewel" of high value, 

 but not sought after by many. I put my 

 label on all the honey I send to market. 

 If it is not first-class, I do not recom- 

 mend it as such. But I hold myself re- 

 sponsiole for all the honey I sell. Is not 

 this right ? 



P. H. Elwood — That depends upon the 

 reason for stamping. If he is troubled 

 with thieves, he can trace his honey bet- 

 ter if all are stamped. There is no ob- 

 .I'ection to his stamping second quality 

 honey. There is a demand for second 

 quality, and if he markets a good grade 

 the marking will help him. If not, the 

 mark will help some one else. 



Wm. M. Barnum — The stamp is put 

 on as an advertisement; and surely he 

 who advertises his name along with a 

 poor quality of goods is a very poor busi- 

 ness man. Consumers want good honey 

 — not bad ; and the object of the stamp 

 is to let them know where they can get 

 it. The other kind of advertising is 

 apt to work in a way the advertiser will 

 not relish : the consumer will avoid his 

 " goods." Advertise ! but let only that 

 which is " extra fine" go out in connec- 

 tion with our advertisement or name. 

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