. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Jan. S, 1899. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. a coal-black honey-de\v. We have had a grocer reject a , and refuse to buy at all, just because he hap- pened to pull out a section of honey that was a trifle off color, when all the rest of the case was fine. That bee- keeper should learn not to mix his g-i'ades of honey, but keep them in separate cases, and mark them according^ly. But what a pleasure it is to get in a lot of honey from a bee-keeper who knows how to assort and put up his comb honey for market. We have had at least two such lots this winte
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Jan. S, 1899. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. a coal-black honey-de\v. We have had a grocer reject a , and refuse to buy at all, just because he hap- pened to pull out a section of honey that was a trifle off color, when all the rest of the case was fine. That bee- keeper should learn not to mix his g-i'ades of honey, but keep them in separate cases, and mark them according^ly. But what a pleasure it is to get in a lot of honey from a bee-keeper who knows how to assort and put up his comb honey for market. We have had at least two such lots this winter—one from Iowa and the other from Wisconsin. If we continue to sell honey to Chicag-o grocers, year after year, we will likely select the bee-keepers whose honey we desire to purchase. We may say further, that we think less than ever of the commission method of handling honey. The buying'-and- selling-outright method is the proper one, if the bee-keeper sends exactly the grade of honey he agrees to. If he niis- represents, he should have his honey shipt back to him, and be compelled to pay the freight charges both ways. Low Prices for Honey, according to M. W. Shepherd in the American Bee-Keeper, are due to the fact that the laboring classes, the chief consumers of honey, get such low prices for labor that they cannot afford to buj' honey. The remedy is to reduce the price of honey to compete witli the cheaper sweets, and have supply dealers lower their prices. The editor says every one is at liberty to make his own supplies, and if any one thinks supply dealers make too heavy charges let him emphatically and forever dis- abuse his mind of that error by making his' own supplies for one He concludes, "If the existence of our indus- try can be sustained only through a reduction in the price of supplies of the present standard of excellence, its days are ; Eees n Switzerland. -In an excliange we learn that Consul General DuBois says bee-culture has i
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