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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



If }'oiir honey is in large barrels the put- 

 ting up of the 3,0(:xj pounds will use up 

 the honey of onl}- about six barrels. 

 These are easily emptied, easily cleansed, 

 and ready for another crop without fear 

 of rust or bad taste. 



The demand for honey in 6i)-pound 

 cans is on the increase, and I am glad of 

 it. I should very much like to sell all 

 the honey we produce in that shape, but 

 we nuist cater to the trade, and I do not 

 think that we will ever cease retailing 

 out our goods in all sizes of packages, 

 from 5(xj pounds to a single pound. We 

 expect to use tin cans mainly but we 

 will always prefer barrels from which to 

 put up different sizes according to orders. 



One word of warning: It is unsafe to 

 melt granulated honey and return it to 

 the barrel while it is hot. Honey has 

 such wonderfu' h3-grometric properties 

 that the hot honey will absorb any moist- 

 ure that may exist in the wootl and act- 

 ually shrink it till it leaks. This does 

 not happen with cold honey. We were 

 caught at this twice before we understood 

 what was the cause of the trouble. So if 

 you have to melt honey do not put it 

 back into the barrel before it is cold. It 

 is always best to use a good, strong can — 

 an extractor can is very good — :as it may 

 be used till the honey has all been drawn 

 off. If large tin cans with open top were 

 not so inconvenient, they would make 

 excellent packages to keep honey till the 

 apiarist is ready to put it up for retailing. 



I spoke of barrels glued for coal-oil or 

 alcohol; I meant barrels that have not 

 been in use. A barrel that has contained 

 alcohol is safe for honey, but a barrel that 

 has contained coal-oil is fit for nothing 

 but coal -oil afterwards. 



THK FIRST ANNIVERSARY. 



It is just a year since the Chicago, Mil- 

 waukee & St. Paul road inaugurated its 

 celebrated Pioneer Limited passenger 

 train service between Chicago, Milwau- 

 kee, St. Paul and Minneapolis. This 

 service marked a new era in the railway 

 world in the line of passenger accommo- 

 dations. At a cost of a quarter ol a mil- 

 lion dollars that progressive company 

 furnished the traveling public, in its Pio- 

 neer Limited train, comforts and facili- 

 ties the best ever produced. This train 

 has been described many time in news- 

 papers and magazines, but should be 

 seen and examined to be appreciated. 

 In beauty of finish, richness and elegance 

 of furnishing nothing equal to it has ever 

 beeu attempted by any other road. The 



car builders were nearlv a year in con- 

 pleling the Pioneer Limited trains (there 

 are two — one leaving Chicago for the 

 West and the other leaving the Twin 

 Cities for the East every evening in the 

 year) and they stand a monument to the 

 builders' art. No regular passenger train 

 service in America is as well known as 

 the Pioneer Limited. From the stand- 

 point of passenger traffic the past twelve 

 months have been the most succe.ssful in 

 the history of the vSt. Paul road, made so 

 very largely by the Pioneer Limited. 

 The patronage of this service is a striking 

 illustration of the fact that the public 

 appreciates a good thing. 



Honey Quotations. 



The following rales for grading honey were 

 adop'pil by the Nortli American Bee • Keepers' 

 Association, at its Washington meeting, and, so 

 far as possible, quotations are made according 

 to these rules . 



Fancy.— All sections to be well filled ; combs 

 traight, of even thickness, and firmly attached 

 to all four sides; both woixl and comb unsoiled 

 i)y travel-stain, or otherwise ; all the cells sealed 

 except the row of cells next the wood. 



No. 1.— .\11 sections well filled, but combs nn- 

 even or crooked, detached at the bottom, or 

 with but few cells uutsealed ; both wood and 

 comb uusoiled by travel stain or otherwise. 



In addition to this the honey is to be classified 

 according to color, using the terms white, amber 

 and dark. That is, there will be " fancy white," 

 f^o. 1,, dark,"' etc. 



NEW YORK.— Good demand for all kinds of 

 extracted, excepting buckwheat. Some demand 

 for amber and white comb. Heeswax is dull. 

 We quote as follows: Fancy white. 12: No. i 

 white, 10 to 11; fancy amber, 9 to 10; No. i amber, 

 9; white, extracted, '7 to yV.-i amber 6', to 7: bees- 

 wax, 25 to 26. 



HII^DRETH & SEGEIvKEN, 



July. 7. 120 West Broadwaj', New York. 



BUFF'AIvO, N. Y. —The honey sea.son may 

 l>e considered closed for the present. A few 

 sti ay lots of old honey are selling at from 6 to 8 

 cents. There is no strictly fancy here. A little 

 would probably bring 11 or 12 cents. Some 

 fancy pure beeswax is wanted at about 30 ceiUs 

 per pound in small cakes. 



BATTERSON & CO. 



May. 13. 167 & 169 Scott St., Buffalo, N. Y. 



BUEFAI<0. N. Y.— Honey has sold slower 

 since the first of January than I ever knew it to 

 sell at this time of the year. I quote as follows: 

 fancy while II V2 to 12;' No. 1 white, 11 to iiH". 

 fancy amber, 10 lo 11; No. i amlier; 9 to 10; fancy 

 dark, 8 to S'-'o; white, extracted, 7 fo j]/,; amber, 6 

 to 7; dark, 510 6; beeswax, 28 to ,30. 



W. C. TOWNSEND, 

 Jan, 25. 86 West Market St., Buffalo, N. Y, 



