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As a result of a meeting called by the American Honey Producers! 
League, in Chicago on October 13 and 14, a committee was appointed, 
headed by Prof. C. L. Corkins, Powell, Wyo., to draft a marketing 
agreement covering all bee products. This agreement is intended to 
include all beekeepers except the producers of package bees and queens. 
The Department of Agriculture has received a preliminary cony of the 
agreement but it is too early to prophecy just what progress beekeep— 
ers can expect to make in drawing up a document intenced to place the 
business of producing and marketing honey on a plane with that which 
the producers of packare: bees and queens hope to obtain from their 
agreement. 
The United States postal refulations specify that live bees, other 
than queen bees in mailing cages, must be mailed in a cage having two 
thicknesses of wire screen, the purpose being to lessen the possibil— 
ity of escape of the bees and also to protect the handlers of mail from 
being stung. Several attempts have been made by shippers of bees to 
have the regulation changed so that a caze having only a single thick 
ness of screen wire could be used, but in the post the Post Office De= 
partment has not seen fit to change this regulation, as the cages sub- 
mitted have not met with the approval of the Post Office Department. 
The Bee Culture laboratory recently designed a single-—screcn cage to 
which the Post Office Department has given informal approval. This 
cage will be submitted to the shippers of package bees who, in turn, 
will make a formal request to the Post Office Department that the re- 
gulations be changed. The new cage will be much cheaper to construct 
and will enable producers to obtain package bees through the mails 
for about 20 cents per cage less than is now possible. 
Jas, I, Eambleton, Somerset, inspected the honey—handling equip— 
ment recently installed by the Huber Baking Co., at Wilmincston,Del. 
This company has prominently featured a bread made with honey and its 
success in this field has becn so gratifying that it is now undertak- 
ing to bottle and sell honey, employing its resular sales and delivery 
force to dispose of the honey. All honey is to be graced and sold on 
the basis of the United Statcs grades. This company has installed a 
unique method for heating hoiey. The honey passes throuh a stean-— 
heated coil. During the two minutes that the honey is passing through 
the coil it is heated to as high as 180° F. The honey is then strained 
and bottled and allowed to cool at room temperature. Subjecting the 
honey to this temperature:for such a short period of time apparently 
does not alter either the flavor or the color of the honey, and on 5 
minutes! notice an operator can start bottling, whoreas, with most 
systems of heating honey a half day's preheating is usually necessary 
before the honey can be bottled. 
