Gleanings in bee culture . as the express businesswill soon be in the hands of the govern-ment, perhaps Brother Root will relent. 1am just stating my experience. At oneplace where I was employed for severalyears I handled the express on commission,having a large transfer to take care of I had been there about two years 1had meantime been experimenting with afew hives of bees, and had taken off aboutone hundred sections of snow-white was no local sale. In fact, I gavemy neighbors all they wanted. The bestprice that the nearest town offered was tencents. I had a relative i
Gleanings in bee culture . as the express businesswill soon be in the hands of the govern-ment, perhaps Brother Root will relent. 1am just stating my experience. At oneplace where I was employed for severalyears I handled the express on commission,having a large transfer to take care of I had been there about two years 1had meantime been experimenting with afew hives of bees, and had taken off aboutone hundred sections of snow-white was no local sale. In fact, I gavemy neighbors all they wanted. The bestprice that the nearest town offered was tencents. I had a relative in the Texas Pan-handle in a good town, who offered to takeall that T would send him, and pay twentycents. How to get forty or fifty pounds tohim was the question. One thing the publicas a rule does not know about the express—all employees are under bond, and heldstrictly accountable for the safe kee]iing ofthe property in their care. Every claim thatthe express pays js traced down to the enir 376 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUUE. R. N. Gidley, New Zealaud, demonstrating his method of securing a large crop of honey. l)loyee at fault, and he is compelled to payit. There are very few claims that are notsaddled off on some one. Hence you maybe sure that the express man gives attentionto every thing in his care. In my two years experience I had noticedthat packages received attention in inverseratio to the care with which they werepacked. For instance, if I ran across avery strong and Avell-made box I wouldpitch it from one end of the car to theother; but if the parcel happened to be afrail hat-box, with the merest stiip of crat-ing around it, or a sjilint basket lined withcotton, and marked Eggs, I handled itwith the greatest care, and so did all therest, and so they do yet. You cant turn asplint basket over; you cant pile any thingon top of it; and you have to handle it care-fully at all times. That gave me my saloon man across the street gave meseveral corrugated-paper cartons
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