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cream, at perfect condition for churning. Far better butter is thus 

 produced than that of the average farm wife ; and after this an ex- 

 cellent cheese is made from the buttermilk. 



The miller, by mixing the wheat from different districts, is 

 able to grind a more uniform and satisfactory grade of flour, and 

 under all these systems the excess of production is taken from one 

 part of the country, and distributed to the point where there is a 

 shortage. 



The beekeeping industry will never reach its full recognition 

 as an agricultural pursuit and the full market value of honey will 

 never be received, until the marketing system is developed to a 

 point equal to that of other agricultural products. 



There are a great many things in connection with the develop- 

 ment of this system of marketing, that have yet to be worked out. 

 The men that are to do the packing of the honey in the large cen- 

 tralized plants, have to know honey of all kinds. They have to 

 know what kinds the trade want as table honey, and what to use 

 for other purposes; how to blend it, and how much heat it will 

 stand in liquifying, and not change the color or flavor. 



They also have to know what metal to make the best tanks of ; 

 the best and most economical method of applying the heat, and of 

 handling it through the different stages of packing work. 



Next the jobber and his salesman, and the retailer, have to 

 receive an education to some extent, as to what honey is, and 

 how it is produced ; for a man without a knowledge of what he is 

 selling and a belief in its genuineness, makes more of a knocker for 

 it than a salesman. 



Then, first, last and most important of all, is the consumer. 

 He has to be taught the value of honey as a food, and led to believe 

 that he can get pure honey at any time ; and told where he can get 

 it. 



A great many of you will laugh and say, that folks know what 

 honey is; but they don't. Not one person in ten in the United 

 States knows what honey really is, where it comes from and how 

 it is produced ; and that it has a great food value. 



More than that they nearly all believe that extracted honey is 

 an adulterated article, or fraud in some way ; and a large percent 

 believe, that it is possible to manufacture comb honey. 



Now for the direct economies of packing in large quantities. 

 If a dealer can buy containers (pails and glass jars) in car lots he 

 will be sure to get a better price than the buyer of small lots ; and 

 if he uses three or four cars of each, he will probably get a better 



