. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 728. iil^ilim THOMAS G. NEWMAN, Vol. nil, N0T,1U886. 1,46. p\T^^^ Wliy Is a bootblack like a bee 1 It im- proves each shining hour. A Carload of honey has been shipped to Kansas City by Bittenbender & Woodcock, o£ Knoxville, Iowa. It would Pay producers to allow local stores a commission of 20 per cent on the sale of comb honey, if they would retail it at 20 cents per box. or per pound. Better this than to allow the local retail prices to run down to less than the net amount you would receive from the store. Wffi liave Re
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 728. iil^ilim THOMAS G. NEWMAN, Vol. nil, N0T,1U886. 1,46. p\T^^^ Wliy Is a bootblack like a bee 1 It im- proves each shining hour. A Carload of honey has been shipped to Kansas City by Bittenbender & Woodcock, o£ Knoxville, Iowa. It would Pay producers to allow local stores a commission of 20 per cent on the sale of comb honey, if they would retail it at 20 cents per box. or per pound. Better this than to allow the local retail prices to run down to less than the net amount you would receive from the store. Wffi liave Received a photographic view of a portion of the public apiary es- tablished in the Zoological Gardens in Phila- delphia, Pa., by Mr. Arthur Todd, Vice- President for Pennsylvania of the North American Bee-Keepers' Society. In the centre of it stands Mr. Todd in the act of viewing a frame of brood and bees just taken from a hive. We have placed it upon the walls of our ollioe, where it will be seen by our visitors. Oatnian Si Brotlier, of Dundee, Ills., have just sold .38,000 pounds of comb honey in one lot, to a dealer for $."j,000, spot cmli. They always have a good crop, always win- ter their bees on the summer stands with success, and always sell their honey at a good price for cash. They are successful apiarists and shrewd business men, but they are very modest and quiet; and keep their own counsels. The above facts were gleaned from a " ; TVhat Fools tliese Mortals be !—We have just learned of a transaction in proof of the above assertion. In a town which was considered to be a good market for honey, resides an apiarist who was supply- ing the town with a good article at a fair price. One day he was informed that some bee keepers from a distance had hauled in a large lot of comb honey and retailed it " all over town" at 10 cents per pound. This ruined the market for the local apiarist, and compelled him to ship his to another town in ord
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