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cts. apiece, or four for 50 cts. The ex- 

 tracted 1 retail at ten cents for either 

 buckwheat or white honey. 1 put up the 

 extracted in pint cans and sell them at 

 25 cts. each. Five-pound tin pails of 

 honey 1 sell for 50 cts., and ten-pound 

 pails for SI. 00. IVIany farmers come to 



white honey on one side and buckwheat 

 on the other, with a spoon in each side. 

 When I come to a house where I have 

 not sold before. 1 call for a dish and spoon, 

 and, with my spoon, dip in a spoonful of 

 both the white and the buckwheat honey; 

 one kind on one side of the dish and the 



Hives Built During the Leisure of Last Winter. 



my harness shop and bring large pails, 

 getting from 25 to 50 pounds. My buck- 

 wheat honey is usually sold first; then 

 comes the white clover and basswood ex- 

 tracted; and, last, the comb honey. I do 

 a great deal of talking about granulated 

 honey, and now many customers call for 

 a pail of the granulated, or "hard" honey. 

 as they call it. 



WHAT MAY BE DONE PEDDLING HONEY. 



If 1 have more honey than I can sell at 

 home, I go out and peddle it. I put up 

 60 or 75 pounds in bright, new, tin pails, 

 neatly labeled, and put them and some 

 comb honey in a spring wagon, and start 

 down the street. My =ample pail is of 

 five-pound capacity, with a partition of 

 tin soldered through the middle. I have 



other kind on the other side, so they can 

 see the difference, and taste first one 

 kind and then the other. Sometimes they 

 are surprised to learn that there is more 

 than one kind of honey. If there are any 

 children I see to it that they have a taste; 

 and if there are 50 cents in the house, 1 

 surely make a sale. 



HONEY EXHIBITS HELP SELL HONEY. 



I find it a great pleasure, as well as 

 good advertising, to make an exhibit of 

 bees, honey and wax at our county fair. 

 My wife gives away samples of honey, 

 using a dozen neat little butter patties 

 and the same number of spoons. Eleven 

 pounds is the smallest amount of hone^ 

 used in giving out samples at one fair, 



