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ey. Had every bee-keeper aiid publisher of 

 bee-jouriKils followed our advice, the preju- 

 dice would have beeu overcome loim ayo : 

 f specially as it is impossible to prevent hou- 

 ey from ^rauulatiiitr in the hauds of buyers. 



Honey is not the onl> product that candies 

 in winter. Olive oil, so mui'h used in France, 

 granulates also ; and, as in the case of honey, 

 granulation is considered the best proof of 

 purity. 



Hamilton, 111. July 3, 1890. 



P. S. We are overwhelmed with work. 

 ( )ur sales of foundation exceed 80,tHK) pounds. 

 1*1, tKK) pounds more than last year ; and 

 still the orders continue. C. D. 



rrom the Hive to the Honey Market. 



.lAMES IIKPPON. 



UiAT is the subject, is it? One broad 

 enough to cover .")()i) pages from the 

 pen of one writer if he undertook to 

 touch all the points. But 1 will not. 

 For my own part, I will merely endeavor to 

 hit a few of the most prominent ones as 

 they come to my mind tliis morning. 1 have 

 not read your leader this tiine, and just as I 

 was beginning to look for' the paper to aid 

 me in this article, I thought perhaps it 

 would be better to write independent of it, 

 then if I make a lot of points just like your 

 own, they cannot be called borrowed : and 

 wherein I may ditfer from you, it cannot lie 

 charged up to my love of controversy. 



Well, we have beeu over tlie ground of the 

 kind of hives and surplus cases to use, each 

 having given liis own opinion and presented 

 his choice, ^^'e will now suppose the suri)lus 

 case is completed or nearly so. Keniove the 

 cover from the top and smoke down what 

 bees you can. If you have good lungs, blow 

 hard with your mouth between the sections. 

 Give them a little more smoke, snap otf the 

 case from the one below, it there is any, and 

 if not, from the honey- board. In either 

 case it will come up clean and free from 

 brace combs, (rive it a few quick, tremu- 

 lous "chucks," when nineteen twentieths of 

 the bees will be out of it. This is all done 

 so nuickly that robbers could not get a taste 

 if they were about. Carry it to your honey 

 hou-:e, or a screen house, cellar, or darkened 

 room, or some place where t!ie bees will go 

 out and none remain. Stand tlie case on 

 end so as to give free circulation of air and 

 light ( if there is any ) between all the combs, 

 as the bees will leave much quicker. Next 

 take these surplus cases to your honey liouse, 

 put them on the table, remove the sections, 

 which should be none other than white pop- 

 lar. \Vith the point of a knife blade scrape 

 the glue all otf, and put them in small, one 

 tier shipping cases, of about twelve pounds 

 capacity each — no larger. This case should 

 have glass on each end, but narrow so as to 

 show off not more thjiu one-half, that being 

 the central portit)U of eacli comb. 



The tirst cases that were made took a large 

 pane of glass slid into grooves in the wide 

 pieces. I believe I was the tirst to conceive 

 the idea of sliding the ltI.'.ss into the cleats 

 instead, thus saving over one-half the glass 



and making a better case. Another device 

 of mine was to put the cleats on the end in- 

 stead of the sides of the cover, ruiming the 

 combs the other way, thus givintr us a case 

 that carries easier and which will take and 

 perfectly tit hve different sizes of sections, 

 three widths of the pound sections and two 

 widths of the half i)ound sections, each size 

 fitting as perfectly as the other. We usually 

 send tins honey to market in these shipping 

 cases in quantity, piling them up in the end 

 of the car. the combs running lengthwise of 

 the car in tlie sections and cases, with straw 

 all around the pile, between it and the car 

 sides and the eml. But in small quantities, 

 pack the cases in a crate. Such sections as 

 come out of our storing cases not completely 

 finished, are brougiit together in quantity 

 sufficient to fill another storing case, which 

 we set ui)on a strong colony and have com- 

 pleted. 



Now I believe I have given the main points 

 between the hive and the market, and if you 

 will excuse me, I will so a little farther, even 

 unsolicited. Send these nice, white, clean 

 shipping cases of honey to a commission 

 man. without any instruction whatever, and 

 he will have the genius and liberality to slap 

 them upon a dray, jounce them to his store, 

 rub them around and over an old, dirty 

 fioor, sell a part of it for less than you 

 expected, fail to pay for it until he sells the 

 other part, which he will do after six mouths 

 or a year, then he will remit, provided the 

 debt has not yet got so old that it is out- 

 lawed or he does not "bust up" in business 

 in the mean time. Isn't that so, Brother 

 Hutchinson 'i 



DowAciAO, Mich., June 21, 18SX). 



Home Markets ; City Markets ; Shipping in 



"Butter" and "Potato" Cars; Half 



Barrels for Extracted Honey; Tin 



Pails for the Retail Trade. 



In our rambles amongst bee-keepers we 

 find that it makes w vast dift'erence in rela- 

 tion to the transfer of honey from the hive 

 to the market, whetlier it is from an apiary 

 of ten colonies or from one of llX) or more. 

 We know of several owners of the former 

 who sell nearly all their honey to neighbors, 

 and tlie sections are regularly returned to be 

 used again the next year. The sections at 

 length become anytliing but tidy in appear- 

 ance : still, they sell at the same price, be- 

 cause " it's to the neighbors you know." A 

 case of this honey finds its way to the gro- 

 cer, and the grocr finds fault with it and 

 gets it at his own luice — "in trade " at that. 



The man with the hundred colonies uses 

 new sc'jtiwns every time, scrapes and re- 

 scrapes every section, and tries to make his 

 hoi'if y a No. 1 article ; but, should a case of 

 it go to the local market, the case of old 

 sections hiis set the price at perhai)s ten or 

 twelve cents. 



Some grocers are noted for square dealing 

 and will pay more for a really superior arti- 

 cle in attractive shape ; but this dei>ends 

 much upon the size of the town and the 

 number of grocers. Biit ■»•? find the large 



