. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. M6 THE BBE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. fine article; come and take a look at ; I did, and found over loo cases containing 120 pounds to the case. I supposed the one showing me the honey had made a mistake, for I thought the cases contained extracted honey, but I found the 120- pound cases filled with as fine comb hon- ey as I ever saw, but in 60-pound cans. I asked the price, and was more than sur- prised to find it only 6 cents a pound, when I had come prepared to pay from 12^ to 14 cents for good section honey. I asked them to remove a portion that I migh
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. M6 THE BBE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. fine article; come and take a look at ; I did, and found over loo cases containing 120 pounds to the case. I supposed the one showing me the honey had made a mistake, for I thought the cases contained extracted honey, but I found the 120- pound cases filled with as fine comb hon- ey as I ever saw, but in 60-pound cans. I asked the price, and was more than sur- prised to find it only 6 cents a pound, when I had come prepared to pay from 12^ to 14 cents for good section honey. I asked them to remove a portion that I might examine it more closely, but it was impossible to .do so without breaking and tearing it all to pieces. Of course I did not buy a pound of that honey for I could not use it. I could not sell it to my cus- tomers for as much as clear extracted honey. Now, that was A, No. i, comb honey, originally, and it would have brought 15 cents per pound at wholesale, readily, had it been in sections. I was there to give that much for as much of it as I needed, but I would not give the five cents per pound that they sui'sequent- ly offered it to me for, and I believe they sold it later for 4)^ cents per pound. How much the poor fellow netted on that fine lot of "'chunk" honey I leave you to figure out; I only know I was sorry for him, and glad I was not in his place. This lot of honey came, so I was infor- med, from Uvalde Co., Texas, but I could not learn from whom. The quality of the honey was .such that it greatly influenced me to afterwards move two car loads of my bees to Uvalde Co., Texas. When I came back from moving the first car of bees out there I brought back a case of "chunk" honey, alias, Uvalde sections, alias, broken comb. Soon after my re- turn I met an old customer of over 20 years standing to whom I usually sold about 100 pounds of extracted honey and nearly as much comb each year for his own use. He asked me if I had some good honey, as he was out and
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