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would be a nice article of extracted. 

 Therefore, chunk honey is freer from 

 all impurities, better kept and more 

 wholesome than any other way comb 

 honey can be put up. 



Transportation charges on chunk 

 honey is a matter of great consiaera- 

 tion. Freight rates in glass, No. 1; In 

 tin. No. 4, and if shipped by express, 

 B class, or the same as merchandise; 

 and smash-ups on the railroads hardly 

 ever occur. 



But what about the market, which 

 by the way is very timid here in this 

 portion of the South? I am glad to 

 say that it has solved the market 

 problem for me, which was, previous 

 to chunk honey production, a great 

 drawback to me. I did a lot of trav- 

 eling, drumming and advertising; 

 since then I have done no advertising, 

 and but little traveling or drumming 

 (none the last season), and the output 

 of my apiaries does not nearly fill the 

 orders. The prices obtained are about 

 the same as for section honey, and the' 

 dealers make about the same profit, 

 but the railroads get less out of it, and 

 the consumers more. These are great 

 advantages in favor of chunk-honey 

 production. 



Now about its future: I believe it 

 has a bright one, taking all things into 

 consideration. It has contributed . 

 much towards making Texas the great- 

 est honey-producing State we have, 

 and other States are sure to fall in line. 

 If honey ever becomes a common sta- 

 ple, it will have to be produced and 

 put on the market in this way, for the 

 present style and manner in which 

 honey is produced and) put on the mar- 

 ket will never extend its sale in towns 

 and cities, and out over the country, 

 to any great extent. Country people, 

 and a large number living in towns and 

 cities, will never buy it. at all. We 

 have to reach this trade, which can 

 only be done with chunk honey; and 

 if we create a much greater demand 

 for our product, we have got it to do. 



There are several organized compa- 

 nies that are canning and placing 

 in nearly every store in our land great 

 quantities of syrup, with but little ef- 

 fort. Chunk honey would supply the 

 demand better. One of these large 

 syrup canneries is located near me, 

 and it is astonishing to know what an 

 enormous business they are doing, and 

 it is netting its stockholders a large 



dividend. Why not the bee-keepers 

 share in the harvest? 



Then, too, the numerous styles of 

 hives and supers, and the legions of 

 methods of management which are 

 knotty, misty, tedious and burden- 

 some, and are a deadly weight on the 

 progress of our industry, will have 

 reached their climax, and we will enjoy 

 a season of rest and prosperity. 



J. J. WILDER. 



Cordele, Ga. 



President York — A man with sixteen 

 apiaries ought to have a right to 

 speak. 



Mr. Burnett — Dr. Miller rather cov- 

 ered the situation. It is a matter of 

 education, as to how you eat your 

 honey, I agree with the Doctor, with 

 the idea that where honey is put up 

 in this way, if the comb was built 

 without foundation, it would be a great 

 advantage and the honey would be 

 much better. Now, it is a matter of 

 fact among all of you with . regard 

 to comb foundation, that the founda- 

 tion used has not given so much trou- 

 ble in the marketing of the honey. 

 While it is an objection at the present 

 time, if they would produce the honey 

 and take time to educate the people 

 into thinking of that honey — a dish 

 all smeared over the comb with ex- 

 tracted honey, that it was as inviting 

 to the eye as it would be to put on a 

 plate. Now, without any honey being 

 taken out of the cells, there certainly 

 would be a market for the honey and 

 it would be better, but it would have 

 to be cut with a spoon instead of a 

 knife, and people as they do in South- 

 ern Illinois — my own experience there — 

 they brought on at the hotel a bowl 

 of honey with a spoon in it, and it was 

 part liquid honey and part comb; cut 

 out what you wanted and help your- 

 self. I tried it and the honey was all 

 right. It was produced without foun- 

 dation. The combs were not straight, 

 but it didn't make much difference 

 when you cut it out with a spoon, and 

 it was as palatable as any honey of 

 its kind. It was a yellow honey. Notst 

 people of this section of the country, 

 this side of what they call the Mason 

 and Dixon's line, are accustomed to 

 having the honey put on the table in 

 a neat fashion, not mushy, and if it 

 is possible to get people, in a reason- 

 able length of time, to regard honey 



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