Gleanings in bee culture . d of injur-ing his market I have helped it, and theprice has constantly tended ui3ward. Lastyear I sold about 2000 pounds, nearly allthrough the one store, and our supply ranout several weeks before the new cropcame in. This honey advertising has alsohelped the store with its other lines, andhelped to enlarge their trade. They tellme that they have several regular honeycustomers who live in Des Moines andOmaha, but that they have become accus-tomed to our honey, and feel suie of thequality. This fall at the county fair tliere wasa special exhibit of Atlantic-made goo
Gleanings in bee culture . d of injur-ing his market I have helped it, and theprice has constantly tended ui3ward. Lastyear I sold about 2000 pounds, nearly allthrough the one store, and our supply ranout several weeks before the new cropcame in. This honey advertising has alsohelped the store with its other lines, andhelped to enlarge their trade. They tellme that they have several regular honeycustomers who live in Des Moines andOmaha, but that they have become accus-tomed to our honey, and feel suie of thequality. This fall at the county fair tliere wasa special exhibit of Atlantic-made local factories had their lightningrods,wagons, brick, tile, and other goods on dis-l^lay. I prepared an exhibit for my groceralso. An observation hive was used toattract attention to the display. Aboutone hundred pounds of honey was put upin pint, quart, and two-quart jars. Behindthe whole was placed a large sign appro-priate to the place where the exhibit wasplaced. It read as follows: 692 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. Apiary of American hives beloiigiii. 1\ Kithter, Pottenstein, Austria. PURE EXTRACTED HONEYGathered by Cass County Bees fromCass County flowers,expressly forStier Grocery Co., label somewhat similar was pasted oneach jar. No one was placed in chargeof the exhibit to take orders; but the sec-retary of the commercial club, who hadgeneral charge of all the exhibits, re-marked that this exhibit attracted moreattention than any thing else in his a result of this advertising the salesincreased so much that the honey we hadput up and regarded as sufficient to lastthe trade until near the holidays was soldwithin a month. Many new customers areadded every month, and this seasons cropbids fair to be sold through one grocerybefore Christmas. Four years ago we couldnot sell one-fourth as much through sixor seven stores in the same length of of having to ship honey to thecentral markets, or having it a drug on themarket at unprofitable j
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