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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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3IARKETING HONEY. 



ALSO SOMETIIINd AUOUT TAKING IT OFF 

 THE HIVES. 



There is nothing- that can make a bee-keeper feel 

 better than clean cash for his surplus honey at the 

 end of the season.— .4./c«;h Oriinui, pari''. 86, Vol. /, 



—Gleanings. 



srfpVERYTHING nowadays depends on 



^"G.ll having goods neat, clean, and in an 



attractive shape, to have theni ''go off" 



readily ; even our hoes have to be gilt edged, 



for I noticed some at a liardware store a few 



days ago, and it seemed that those that were 



gilt, or bronzed perhaps, Avere selling far in 



advance of the plain steel ones. We have 



been told of gilt edged butter, that sold for 



fabulous prices, but we hardly think it will 



be advisable to have our honey put up in 



that way, although we do wish it to look as 



well as any other of the products of the 



farm. 



There is another trouble, which will appear 

 from tlie following note from our commis- 

 sion house in Cleveland, to whom we sent a 

 couple of the sections as a sample. 



The sample of honey is very nice and we think it 

 will sell readily but we can not tell at what price. 

 Our opinion however, basetl iipon reports fn)m oth- 

 er markets, is that it will brinsf more now than later. 

 If you have a stock of it, please send iis a littk^ lot ; 

 do not on any account box it up invisibly ti.irht but 

 pack it so the express men can see what they are 

 handling. Give us your price and we will see how 

 our market will rc-spond ; by all means make it low 

 enouijh to sell rcudilv. Stair & Kenuel. 



Cleveland, Ohio, July 5th, 18V7. 



You see the hives would mike the honey 

 invisible, and of coursa the express men 

 would smash it. Now to determine about 

 what sized package would be best, we sent 

 to a manufacturer of fruit and berry crates, 

 for they have determined by much experi- 

 ence, what is probably best. We procured a 

 very pretty crate from Batterson of Buffalo. 

 It is strong, light, cheaply made and has 



CASE FOR STORING AND SHIPPING HONEY. 



In our price list, we advised using the 

 Simplicity hives for sliipping cases, but al- 

 though they are perliaps as cheap and strong 

 as almost any box we could make especially 

 for the pm'pose, they are not exactly what is 

 wanted. Tiie broad frames, and tin separa- 

 tors occupy considerable space and these 

 are just what we can not well spare, when 

 we are sending honey to market, for they 

 are wanted to put back into the hives. 



convenient handles to lift it by. From this 

 we decided that we wanted a package com- 

 posed of about '1 sections in height, 4 long — 

 just as they stand in the hive — by 6 wide. 

 Tills would make just -48 sections, and they 

 weigh just about as nearly a pound each, as 

 they can well be made to do. The accom- 

 panying engraving will, we trust, make all 

 plain. 

 The glass is to slide in at the upper edge, 



