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him this report, talk with him, teach him all you can. He will do you more 

 harm by throwing inferior honey on the market at ruinous prices than he will 

 by seeking to take your trade from you with a first class article and a view 

 to actual profit. But to promote the Industry we want chiefly to promote 

 the consumption of honey. As an aid to this we should pay more attention 

 to quality. That is the greatest factor of all in promoting the honey trade. 

 Quality is essential, and again I say quality. If I were a voice, a persuavise 

 voice, that could travel this whole country o'er I'd fly around among the 

 bee-keepers and sing with all my might, quality, quality is the "open sesame" 

 to the Appetite of the consumers. We fill numberless volumes with teach- 

 ings relative to the management of an apiary and the production of honey, 

 and leave the rest too imperfectly treated, when, in fact, the problem of suc- 

 cessful honey production is only a little over half solved at that point. We 

 must put up our honey m such a style as to make the beholder hungry, and 

 have the quality such that the last bite will taste like more . These are mat- 

 ters entirely within reach of the producer if he will only inform himself how 

 it must be done and take care to do it. Then there is one more thing. We 

 must get our wares before the p2ople. Much more can be done in that line 

 than has been done. A lady acquaintance from Chicago told me last sum- 

 mer that while the grocers there generally kept strained honey but few of them 

 handled that in the comb. Brethren that ought not to be so. There is some 

 remedy for such a state of things. I suggest that we find out about it. 



J. S. SEELY, OSWEGO, ILL. 



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