322 Marketing Extracted Honey. 
Fourth, Deliver the honey in small lots, so that it will 
be sure to be kept in inviting form, and, if possible, attend 
to the delivery yourself, that you may know that all is done 
“decently and in order.” = 
Fifth. Instruct your grocers that they may make the 
honey show to the best effect (Fig. 133), and thus captivate 
the purchaser through the sight alone. 
Sixth. Call local and general conventions, that all in 
the community may know and practice the best methods, 
so that the markets may not be demoralized by poor, unsal- 
able honey. 
It is of the greatest importance to encourage State, inter- 
State, and National Associations. Happily, our civilization 
makes every person affected by the acts of each person. 
Selfishness, not less than Christianity, urges us all to be 
interested in each other. The honey traffic reaches from 
State to State. Bee-keeping will never be perfect as an 
art till all bee-keepers act as one man. He is short-sighted 
that decries conventions. It is the experience of the world 
that they are valuable in other arts. Bee-keeping is no 
exception. Let us all urge that the associations act in 
unison, from the local to the general, that all other apiarian 
interests no less than the markets shall be in the highest 
degree fostered. Each association, from the most local to 
the most general, has its special mission which no other 
can perform, 
PREPARATION FOR MARKETS, 
Of course, the method of preparation will depend largely 
upon the style of honey to be sold, so we will consider the 
kinds separately. 
EXTRACTED HONEY. 
As before intimated, extracted honey has all the flavor, 
and is in every way equal, if not superior—comb itself is 
innutritious and very indigestible—to comb honey. -As 
Dr. Miller has pointed out, granulated honey, thoroughly 
drained and then melted, gives a most delicious article. 
When people once know its excellence—know that it is 
not “strained” —then the demand for extracted honey. will 
