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case, two neighbors go together, thus 

 saving on the price of the honey, since 

 an extra charge is made for a case 

 for a single 60 pound can, and the sav- 

 ing of freight also, since it costs al- 

 most as much to ship by freight a 60 

 pound can as 100 pounds more. 



These large cans are also used by 

 retailers to retail out of the original 

 package in small quantities. This 

 last method is fast losing ground, 

 however, since the ways of the world 

 are changing to that of selling almost 

 everything in its original packages. 

 For this reason the demand for the 

 smaller packages as the 12, 6, and the 

 3 pound friction top pails and cans is 

 increasing over that of the large sizes, 

 from year to year. The 12 pound and 

 6 pound pails are in greatest demand. 



Very little attempt has been made 

 to put bulk comb honey up in glass 

 packages as yet, but it will be done 

 extensively too. We have tried this 

 to some extent, and of all the pretty 

 things that can be imagined, a nice, 

 clear, white, glass jar, filled with long, 

 nicely cut pieces of fancy white comb 

 honey standing upright, fancy light 

 extracted honey surrounding it, when 

 held to the light this presents a sight 

 that is simply beautiful and appealing 

 to the appetizing tastefulness of every 

 one who has the slightest taste tyv 

 honey. And such a product sells! 

 We know this for we have several 

 times rolled one jar after another 

 over the counter into sheets of wrap- 

 ping paper as fast as this could be 

 done, while another took up the 

 money that was laid down by the pur- 

 chaser, one trying to get ahead of the 

 other, for fear the supply would not 

 last. This was at some of our Fairs, 

 where we had the same kind of jars 

 filled with the same kind of extracted 

 honey, only at a lower price, side by 

 side with the bulk comb honey, but 

 these were not taken until the bulk 

 comb honey was all sold. And then 

 the purchasers demurred while nu- 

 merous ones, who had to satisfy them- 

 selves with the extracted, proclaimed 

 that next time they would be sure to 

 come earlier, so as to get some of 

 the bulk comb honey. This has been 

 evidence enough for us to believe that 

 bulk comb honey would create a good 

 demand right by the side of section 

 honey, or extracted honey anywhere, 

 or in any kind of a market. 



These are only a few remarks of 

 what bulk comb honey is, what it has 

 done, and what its future will be. To 

 begin to tell all about the advantages 

 and the details concerning the produc- 

 tion of bulk comb honey would be im- 

 possible, as that would take an enor- 

 mous lot o£ time. This can be better 

 done through the columns of the bee- 

 papers instead of this place of busy 

 work. 



LOUIS H. BOHiOLLi 

 New Braunfels, Texas. 



Mr. 3L,atham (Connecticut) — ^At our 

 Hartford Fair, in Connecticut, bulk 

 honey was shown, and tl;ie exhibitors 

 were given permission to sejl off their 

 exhibits, and in every case the bulk 

 honey sold out before the others, just 

 as Mr. Scholl mentions. 



Mr. Vanderwerken (Connecticut) — 

 How is it possible to produce more 

 comb honey than extracted? The 

 paper says it can be done. How 

 about it when it candies? How much 

 will you have on your hands then? 



Mr. Hershiser — I believe that the 

 question of locality comes in here. It 

 is my impression that honey in Texas, 

 and especially in California, doesn't 

 candy as readily as it does here, and 

 undoubtedly for those whose lot it is 

 to live in the "wild and wooly West," 

 it may fte better for them to produce 

 this kind of honey; but I don't believe 

 it would be good to go into this kind 

 of production in this part'Of the coun- 

 try, because as soon as it candies it 

 becomes an opaque mass, whereby the 

 comb honey wouldn't show up at all 

 looking through the extracted honey 

 that surrounds it; and again, as the 

 gentleman has suggested, I don't 

 think it is possible to produce quite 

 as much comb honey as extracted. I 

 think it is a question of locality, some- 

 what.. 



Mr. Hardy (Ntew York) — I attended 

 the World's Fair at St. Louis, and I 

 noticed that a number of the Western 

 States had a very good way of adver- 

 tising; they had books or pamphlets 

 gotten out, and in those were very 

 nice photographs* one would be of 

 an alfalfa field in Kansas, and under 

 that would be the description "As we 

 do it out in Kansas." That paper is a 

 very able paper, as far as Texas is 

 concerned; it may apply to their con- 

 ditions there in good shape. They 

 have worked up a condition of trade 



