. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 135 a radical change in the style of package, es- pecially for extracted honey. While the GO lb. can is the standard for wholesale ship- ments from California, smaller packages of ten and five lbs. would have to be used. In this matter of distribution in small pack- ages we have a very good example in the way maple syrup is put upon the market, and of small packages for honey I find California remarkably free. A small stantard pack- age for this State and the sale propdrly pushed would result in a large home demand for our proauc
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 135 a radical change in the style of package, es- pecially for extracted honey. While the GO lb. can is the standard for wholesale ship- ments from California, smaller packages of ten and five lbs. would have to be used. In this matter of distribution in small pack- ages we have a very good example in the way maple syrup is put upon the market, and of small packages for honey I find California remarkably free. A small stantard pack- age for this State and the sale propdrly pushed would result in a large home demand for our proauct. The small package in connection with the larger wholesale package would give our product a wider application in trade and would enable the producer to sell his honey direct to the consumer under his own label or trade mark. If bee-keepers themselves would put their honey upon the market in this way instead of allowing the adulterator to repack it for him, there would be less dis- satisfaction with the honey markets. In studying the fruit and bee-keeping in- dustries of California and comparing their past history, present condition and future prospects, I believe that the bee-keeper has less external obstacjes to contend with than the fruit grower. Fruit production is enor- mously on the increase and a greater amount is thrown upon the market every year. Hon- ey production on the other hand fluctuates, and if the production has not already at- tained its highest point it will do so in the near future unless a cultivated honey plant comes to the front. The sterile mountains do not yield honey in amount equal to the fertile valleys, and the rank growth of hon- ey plants in the valleys, where our tons of honey have been distilled, is being rolled under by the plow of the home-seeker, and the bee-keeper is compelled to fold his tent and depart. The proper distribution of honey is not only of vital interest to the California bee- keeper, but it has an equal bearing upon the easter
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