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the Apiarists crowd it to the markets at prices ranging as 

 low as three cents. What is lacking? Proper distribution. 

 Instead of shipping our honey to the cities, whence it will 

 be partly shipped back to our -village retailers after having 

 passed through the hands of commission men, and wholesale 

 merchants, we must cultivate home consumption. We must 

 show our neighbors, our farmers, our mechanics, at home, 

 that our progressive methods enable us to furnish to them 

 the sweetest of all sweets, at nearlj' as low a price as syrups. 

 The occasional depression of the honey markets is but tem- 

 porary and its termination is only a question of time. 



841. It is important, in offering honey, whether to gro- 

 cers or to consumers, to have it put up in neat and at- 

 tractive shape. Comb-honey in 

 sections weighing only a pound 

 sells best, because it is, and always 

 will be, a fancy article. 



But in putting up extracted 

 honey, a one-pound package is 

 now too small. We must encour- 

 age a consumption in which the 

 expense of packing will not ma- 

 terially advance the cost, and we 

 find that, owing to this advance 

 of cost, the one or one and-a- 

 quarter-pound package is less in 

 demand than it was a few years 

 ago. 



842. Tin is the cheapest pack- 

 age for honey, in small quantities. 

 Our favorite sizes are two and-a- 

 half-pound, flve-pound, and ten- 

 pound pails. The two and-a-half- 

 pound pail is in great demand, and in the Winter of 1886-7, 

 the bulk of our crop of that year, about 24,000 lbs., was sold 



Fig. jyt). 

 HONKY PAILS. 



