. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 498 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL \ng. 10, 1899. store anyway. I did not write about barrels theoretically. In fact, I don't write in the bee-papers theoretically con- cerning aiij' point. What I give is from experience of 30 years of dailj' practice with bees, or honey, or bee-goods. So if you differ from me it is simply because you take mat- ters from another stand-point; but the acquired experience of years cannot be done awaj' with by a few jokes, or a sneer, and even tho I may not be approved by the mass of the readers, I will stay with the assertions pre
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 498 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL \ng. 10, 1899. store anyway. I did not write about barrels theoretically. In fact, I don't write in the bee-papers theoretically con- cerning aiij' point. What I give is from experience of 30 years of dailj' practice with bees, or honey, or bee-goods. So if you differ from me it is simply because you take mat- ters from another stand-point; but the acquired experience of years cannot be done awaj' with by a few jokes, or a sneer, and even tho I may not be approved by the mass of the readers, I will stay with the assertions previously made by me, that altho tin-cans are a progress, and are very handy in a number of cases, still the old honey-barrel will remain, in many cases, a useful vessel. Cogitator saj-s that I did not explain how a " glue- coated" barrel could have its staves spread and closed again, and yet be proof against honey soaking as before. I did not think that it needed explaining, because I thought any one might try and see how it behaved. The glue fills up the crevices, and their spreading apart does not cause it to break away from those crevices, but it simply shuts to- gether when they are brought together again, and the bar- rel does not leak. Facts, not fiction. The description that Cogitator gives of his trial at opening a barrel simply shows that he will do much better as a tinner than as a cooper. I have put up honey in small receptacles, both from barrels and 60-pound cans, and when it comes to emptying the honey of five barrels, or of its equivalent in tin-cans— 44 to 46 60-pound cans—give me the five barrels with all the fuss of taking out the heads and putting them in again, and with all the little do-funnies of the cooper that so much annoy Cogitator. The 45 tin-cans may be dried on the stove, sure enough—the fact is, I have done it on some of them, but I got sick of it long before I got to the 45th can, and my five barrels did not leak as much as those dr
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