. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. COMl! IIONK'V 63 ("OMIi HONEY. tliiiijr ill sniuU sections of aI)out one pouinl p;icli, and luit np as neatly and nicely as I have (lesciilieil. Xice conili honey in boxes is quite plentiful at l-i cents, in many places. Ill order to test the shipping cpialities of our cases, as well as the niarkels in our dif- ferent cities, we sent a ease, such as we have ligured, to Cincinnati, one to ("hi- caj;o, and one to New York city. They had no protection at all, but all went safely; and I know
. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. COMl! IIONK'V 63 ("OMIi HONEY. tliiiijr ill sniuU sections of aI)out one pouinl p;icli, and luit np as neatly and nicely as I have (lesciilieil. Xice conili honey in boxes is quite plentiful at l-i cents, in many places. Ill order to test the shipping cpialities of our cases, as well as the niarkels in our dif- ferent cities, we sent a ease, such as we have ligured, to Cincinnati, one to ("hi- caj;o, and one to New York city. They had no protection at all, but all went safely; and I know of no reason why a jjlass case of honey should not have as careful treatment as a basket of peaches, or a crate of straw- berries, for that matter. All i>raised the case and honey, some of them extravagantly,and most of them wanted more. It is so clean iind convenient for retailing that a brisk de- mand has si>runs up at home, and it looks now as though we might sell a ton or more right in the apiary, without stirringa" peg"' to hunt up a customer. My friends, we can sell our honey, oiu' (]ueens. aye, and our bees too. all in this very way, if we will keep ful- ly np to the light we now liave. Throw- away patents, adopt one uniform hive, hon- ey-package, and let those who choose to follow the old jumbled-np way of doing things hunt for customers, and sell at half price even then. A similar case, but holding only a single tier of sections, is shown under Hive-M.\k- iNG. This is made lo go into the hive and thereftn'e answers the double purpose of a case for holding the sections in the hive, and al.;o a cas.' in which to send them to market. r.:)XK-^ ¥OK ON'E-roUND SKC- TIf)NS OF COMH IIOXKY. This package has a bit of •? red tape "" attached to it. to cany it by. It is a safe and i)retty package for a single section of honey, being very conve- nient for the customer to carry, or pack in his va- lise or trunk, if he wants to. It is
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