. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. my', THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 421 I am aware that the argument is abroad that while comb honey is always a luxury, used only by the few, that the low price of extracted honey enables the poor man to indulge in a sweet that he would otherwise be deprived of; but how much pure extracted honey does the poor laboring man get when the product is put up by packing houses in our cities? Right here let me mal£e a statement that maybe surprising, but nevertheless true, viz.: that our wonderful honey-extractor has been of more benefit to the manufacturers of g
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. my', THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 421 I am aware that the argument is abroad that while comb honey is always a luxury, used only by the few, that the low price of extracted honey enables the poor man to indulge in a sweet that he would otherwise be deprived of; but how much pure extracted honey does the poor laboring man get when the product is put up by packing houses in our cities? Right here let me mal£e a statement that maybe surprising, but nevertheless true, viz.: that our wonderful honey-extractor has been of more benefit to the manufacturers of glucose than to bee-keepers. In the absence of the extractor there would have been no glucosed honey. There would not have been such a great amount produced, while the price would have been held within the lines of supply and demand, and prices would have been better. However, we have the extractor and millions of pounds of extracted honey, and what are we going to do about it? Now the only way I see out of the trouble is through legislation, in the improvement of our packages, and in the organization of exchanges—for only through organization can anything be accomplisht. In the matter of improvement of honey-packages, if we trace the comb-honey business a little further we find the next improvement was the introduction of the ]-pound section. Now a great many claim that bees will store more honey in a li-pound section than in a 1-pouud, tho the statement seems to be largely a matter of opinion. We do know, however, that it will not pay to use a smaller section, hence it may be said that we have arrived at perfection in comb-honey pack- ages. If we now turn to our extracted product we find that we have no uniform or special package in which to place our honey. I regard the Muth jar as coming the nearest to it. but even that is used to a limited extent, while upon our mar- kets the fruit-jars are largely used. The great bulk of our honey is sold in 6U-pound cans, to be repackt
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