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A VIEW IX CHICAGO'S GREAT HOXEV-MAKKET— SOUTH WATER STREET. 



anxious to handle it, and always make a 

 profit; but it will take more than one 

 article in the Review to convince the 

 apiarist that he should make extra crates 

 as part of his expense in getting honey 

 to market. I know of no commodity 

 that is shipped by freight that is so liable 

 to damage as is comb honey. Glass is 

 not, because that is packed in straw. A 

 claim agent told me a year ago that he 

 would not pay a claim on broken comb 

 honey simply because it broke from the 

 jar of the car. Now then, if honey is a 

 commodity that is so perishable, why 

 should not the bee-keeper buy crates con- 

 taining eight cases, and then if there is 

 any damage, railroads must be responsible. 

 Honey that leaks always sells from 2 to S 

 cents per lb. less than if it did not leak, 

 and a crate certainly will not cost this 

 amount of money. Sometimes a bee-man 

 will send in a case with a board in, to fill 

 the vacant space; this is not satisfactory, 

 but is unavoidable in order to have the 

 case used. In shipping the honey from 

 Colorado, we engaged carpenters and 



bought lumber to brace the cases so th'it 

 they could not shift; but the scantling 

 broke, and the spikes gave way from the 

 action of the car in transit, and some cases 

 would show con.siderable leak. Wlienyou 

 consider its frail condition, you will know 

 that we had much "nerve" to go West 

 and buy this commodity, and worry along 

 to sell it, at a small margin of profit. In- 

 stead of bee-keepers thinking, when we" 

 come to buy honey, that we are a demon'/ 

 they should welcome us with open arms.' 

 Some of the bee-men d6 s6,Arid. sh6w 

 themselves sensible business nlen, but 

 some look upon us in the light of trying 

 to buy too cheap; but perhaps at another 

 time they will be doing the worrying aS 

 to the disposition of their stock. ' ' ''' ' 

 This was a year in Colorado's faVJSr/fdf 

 it had a crop, while many locdlitieS weVe^ 

 without. We found some cases of ' (iotifiW^ 

 honey that had moths, cifidied cidi^bil 

 partly filled combs, and iiitet'wOyeri'co^'b'^' ' 

 — by this we mean two or thVefe se<!:tlih's 

 joined together — but no ilame on th^ ' 

 cases, so we couldn't di.'icovier tliie men wh" 



