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Beekeeping 
High-class retail packages. 
The bottling of honey for the higher class markets requires 
considerable skill and the beekeeper usually leaves this work 
to the jobber, who has the necessary equipment and facilities 
for buying honey from various sources. There can be little 
question, however, that many beekeepers could well afford 
to go to the additional trouble and expense of putting honey 
in attractive, artistic packages for the trade that is ready to 
pay a good price for a high-class product. 
An important consideration is the shape of the bottle. 
If possible this should not be a stock bottle such as is used 
either by other beekeepers or is obviously employed in the 
bottling of other commodities. An odd shape or a bottle 
made for the purpose on an original design will prove a good 
advertisement. The neck of the bottle must of course be 
wide. A cheap, homely label will do much to render a 
package unattractive. Above all, a label should not be 
used which obviously is used by hundreds of beekeepers 
and which has the name of the producer printed in a space 
left vacant in the making of the original design. It is possible 
to make labels in this way which do not tell their history too 
loudly, but to a bottler who sells honey in considerable quan¬ 
tities the expense of having a distinctive, attractive label 
designed and lithographed will be many times repaid. The 
beekeeper should note that the extensive bottlers have 
learned this. 
Blending. 
In a single apiary it is impossible to get honey of the same 
flavor and color year after year because of differences in the 
nectar secretion, due to climatic differences. It is rarely 
desirable to attempt to bottle honey of one source, such as 
white clover, because of seasonal variations which the con¬ 
sumer does not understand. If, however, honeys from two 
or more sources are blended, the seasonal variations are 
hidden and it is possible to give the consumer honey which 
looks the same and has the same taste year after year. In 
