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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



must be pure; aud one buying it should 

 he sure of the standing of the house sel- 

 Ungit. 



To my mind, the above fact is one of 

 the strongest and best points that it is 

 possible to put into a honey leaflet. A 

 large number of people, especially in 

 cities, and those whose occupations are 

 sedentary, or in-doors, have poor diges- 

 tion; and if they really knew of the bene- 

 fit that would come to them from the 

 eating of honey, its sale would be largely 

 increased. I would suggest that those 

 who get up honey leaflets make this tlie 

 point of the leaflet. The fact should be 

 told briefly, clearly, and in a pleasing 

 but convincing manner. A most impor- 

 tant point will be /;/ the telling. 



as it was shipped from me at the same 

 time. But the others kept it in the bar- 

 rel. They had the barrel up at the front 

 of the store, but there was not enough 

 curiosity excited in that way to create an 

 appetite, as was the case with the large 

 cake. 



Honey is one of the things that must 

 be in sight if it is to be sold. There is 

 another point in this matter: Many peo- 

 ple find the taste of granulated honey 

 very agreeable. At fairs I have sold a 

 great manj- bottles of granulated honey 

 to people who did not know what it was 

 until I explained it to them and allowed 

 them to taste of it. Honey of a mild 

 flavor, candied with a nice, smooth 

 grain, is really almost as palatable as con- 

 fectionerv. 



CANDIED HONEY. 



WINTERING BEES IN THE CELLAR. 



A Novel Method of Bringing it Before the 

 Public. 



The exhibition of a barrel of granula- 

 ted honey, minus the barrel, in a grocery- 

 window, would be likely to attract atten- 

 tion and comment. That it not only 

 does this but greatly increases the sale of 

 honey in this condition is shown by the 

 following that was contributed to the 

 American Bee Journal by Mr. Herbert 

 Clute of Wisconsin. Mr. Clute says: — 



Grocerymen claim their customers like 

 our honey flavor better than any other. 

 One of the grocerymen lets the hone}- 

 candy in the barrel, then he sets the 

 barrel of honey on a table in the front 

 part of the store, and cuts all of the 

 hoops from the barrel, then pulls the 

 staves off. In that way it leaves one big 

 lump of candied honey on the table right 

 in the show-window; the customers come 

 in and inquire what that big chunk of 

 sugar is. He tells them that it is honey, 

 and then the}- wish to buy a few pounds, 

 and he takes a large knife that he has 

 lying beside it, and slices ofT on the top 

 edge as you would cheese. In this way 

 he sold a barrel of honey a week, at a pro- 

 fit of 4 cents a pound, while the two ad- 

 joining groceries sold but a barrel or 

 two all winter, of the same kind of honey, 



When to put them in; How to Pile them up. 

 Ventilation of Hives and Cellar. 



A large part of our success turns upon 

 the successful wintering of our bees; and, 

 as preparations for winter are now in 

 order, I will copy from the American 

 Bee Journal part of an article on cellar 

 wintering, written by that veteran, C. 

 Davenport. Among other things, he 

 says : — 



The time to put bees into the cellar de- 

 pends, of course, upon the locality. For 

 the last few years I have left mine out 

 until the latter part of November; but, 

 last fall, about the 20th of that month, 

 there was a severe storm, with extreme 

 cold, and I think I lost, at a low estimate, 

 llioo, because my bees were out in it; and, 

 after this, the majorit)^ of mine, at least, 

 will be put under ground by the middle 

 of Xovember. 



Some recommend placing long scant- 

 ling, or 2 X 4's, in the cellar to set the 

 hives on. I used to practice this plan, 

 but I have found that a much better way 

 is to put an empty hive or stout box un- 

 der each tier of hives. When this is 

 done, onl}' the colonies in that one tier 

 are disturbed when a hive is put on or 

 taken off. When long pieces are used, 

 unless great care is taken, the bees in 

 all the hives on them are more or less 



