. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 492 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Aug. 5, ARE VOL' :Ki:Vi» iti:4'Ki:Ariu:v during the summer months ? If so. send for Summer Outings along- the line of the Nickel Plate Koad, from which you will be able to select quiet and picturesque resorts wtih fa- cilities for Kood flshinjf and bathing. Elegant- ly equipt coaches : luxurious sleeping cars and unexcelled Dining Car Service. Three through trains dally between Chicago and the East. Address, J. T. C.\IjL.\han, Gen'l Agent, 111 Adams Chicago, 111. Qerjeral Iten^s* Never Did So Well. I have kept be


. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 492 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Aug. 5, ARE VOL' :Ki:Vi» iti:4'Ki:Ariu:v during the summer months ? If so. send for Summer Outings along- the line of the Nickel Plate Koad, from which you will be able to select quiet and picturesque resorts wtih fa- cilities for Kood flshinjf and bathing. Elegant- ly equipt coaches : luxurious sleeping cars and unexcelled Dining Car Service. Three through trains dally between Chicago and the East. Address, J. T. C.\IjL.\han, Gen'l Agent, 111 Adams Chicago, 111. Qerjeral Iten^s* Never Did So Well. I have kept bees for the last five years, but they never did so well as this season. August Buchhagen. Jefferson Co., Ohio, July 26. Bees Doing Fine. I have about 60 colonies of bees, and can't get aloos without the American Bee Journal. My bees are doing fine this year. I live close to the Scioto Valley, and they are now working on sweet clover and catnip naostly. I have some as fine Italian bees as there are in the State. Joel Pendekgrass. Pike Co., Ohio, July •2,1. Marketing- Honey. Years ago I made up my mind that the best package to put e.^ttracted honey in was the Mason quart jar. As they rep- resent so much cash, if one does not want to out up fruit or jelly in them they are always worth so much money. When I commenced producing extracted honey here in 1876 I got 12 to 15 cts. per lb. for it. The price gradually decreast until, when the hard times of 18'.)o struck us, I found that, if I wanted to sell my honey. 1st or 2nd grade, I had to put the price so that it was not a lux- ury, but necessary—so low that it was nearly the price of syrup ; so that now I keep in all the groceries of this place of 2i»00 inhabitants, quart Mason jars of 2nd grade, with a neat label on, which they retail at 20 cents. ; and I let the stores have them for IS cts., and lake it in trade. I know that I do not buy any- thing these hard times unless I need it and it is cheap ; so it is with others. We mu


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