The farmers' vindicator. (Jackson, Miss.) 1873-1???, 1874-08-14
Answer TO Friend williams Let
ter, August I, 1874.
July Is, 1874.

ter, August 4, 1874.
MAJ. WALL: l wish to answer the
following extract from friend Williams
letter:
"Mr. Standeter: Why cant you
sell queens for twenty-five cents a
piece? they don't cost you as much to
raise them as it would a chicken, and
we think we do well to get that for
them. You ask too much for your
honey too-25 cents per pound. l am
sorry to see you put such check to
the apiary business as you are by your
prices. People can't pay such prices
these hard times, nor never will, when
they can send to New Orleans and buy
honey for 81 per gallon. Please an
swer, and oblige, WILLIAM"
Well, friend William, l like think
ing man, and l guess if you will just
think on little longer, you will think
nearer as l now do. l once thought
that Italian bees should be sold much
cheaper than the price paid 1928 per
colony, though | found them cheap at
that price,, and | undertook to raise
them for $40 per colony, and queens
at So each; and would have starved
if / had no other means Of support,
because my local trade is ndt worth a.
cent | am fourteen miles FROM the
railroad, and not prepared to ship
either queens OF honey to a better
market Wells friend William, if you
will take the queens | condemn as i'm
pure and pinch their heads, at my
Apiary, you may have them at 10 cts.
Now, / know that friend William
knows nothing of bees or honey; so !
will tell him some things: At the
North, where many bees are kept,
swarm of Black bees is worth So; a
hive, So more; empty combs, to fill
Langstroth frame, 81 each; and twenty.
frames in my hives, $50 without an
ounce of honey; and honey is retailed
at from Is cents to rs cents per pound,
while the West India honey is sold az
slops to beer makers and cake-bakers,
and sometimes used as bee feed, but is
considered dangerous to use in that
way, as it sometimes kills bees. The
books inform us that thousands oElbs.
Of sweets are sold every " ~
which the bees never saw, ara mat it
IS easy detected by any one who knows
honey when they taste it. Some writer
has estimated one pound of honey as
being worth two pounds of butter to
feed his family, besides keeping any
length of time, and being more whole
'ome. estimate one pound of honey
TO go as far as three pounds of mo
asses, because it is richer and the
stomach does not have to take 80 much
10 get q. little nutriment. But if moth
ssg h,itNisnethiDg cheap will do friend
he can be accommodated with
out going to New Orleans, as have
'ome candied honey cut out of box
hive with bee. bread in it, for which /
would be glad to get rid of at 10 cents
per pound, and l reckon it would please
MIN, as he doubtless belongs to the
class who think the human stomach
IAN digest bees wax; or if he don't
ike the wax, / can still accommodate
aim, as placed some of the candied
'ombs in kettle to separate it from
he wax and pollen Cor bee-bread),
heated and strained it. 1t is nice and
lean, but has lost its volatile oil BY
leat, and parted with its balsamic viz
ues. Same price, 10 cents per pound.
think this will please friend William,
or be has cotton on his eye,lashes til
he can't see anything else, and thinks |
hat we, like INN. ought to cell our
produce for less than cost, IS be dOes
lis cotton.
Yours respectfully.
w. +. STANDEFEn