Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-12


A new article Of export has commenced
% attract the attention Of American ship
pers, and it is one in which our neighbor-
ing State Of California is peculiarly inter-
ested. 1t is honey in the comb. Last
year one New York firm sent over 300, 900
pounds, chiefly to England. Most Of this.
however, went in jars, either as pure ex-
tracted honey or as comb-honey-that is,
as honey bottled with portions of broken
comb remaining in it. Honey, when sold
in the comb, brings a much higher price
in the United States than the honey sold in
Jars, and time, patience, money, and skill
have been devoted to the production OF
small, clean, compact and perfect sections
Of heney-comb, in boxes, so as to be read
iy saTeabIe, as we see it in the shop Of the
retail grocer. Americans in general are
familiar with these little boxes, made with
four glass sides anla strip Of wood at top
and bottom. They are placed, empty, in
the upper part Of the hive for the bees to
store the surplus honey in, and, as each
box is filed it can be lifted out and
replaced by an empty one, in which
the bees can continue their la
bors. Various contrivances, mechanical
and scientific, are used in the United States
70 diminish the labor of the bees. The
difficulty in making honey a large article of
export has hitherto been in getting the
comh-honey into England without loss Of
: great part Of the shipment by b~reakages.
The rough handling Of the packages OF
board ship, sIung up from the yard-arm
snd let down with q rum" causes a large
percentage Of breakage among the glass
boxes, with the spelling and smashing Of
their fragile, waxen contents. Messrs.
Thurber, extensive honey dealers in New
York, have tried during the last four years
10 get the comb-honey into England in
good condition. They succeeded last year
In efiecting this for the Paris Exhibi-
ton, where their display Of the honey-comb
il the patent hive boxes attracted much
attention, and obtained one medal from the
Exhibition judges and another from the
French Agricultural Society ''for the
Best honey" Last November, Mr..
Hoge, manager for the Messrs. Thurber,
safely landed . consignment Of so tons in
liverpool, and ON January 9th landed on
the wharf at Mapping, London. a lot Of
100 tons, conveyed by them from New
York. Out Of Q $500 cases in this shipment,
containing over 200,O 0 pounds Of honey,
scarcely any boxes e-stained any injury in
transit. Mr.. Hoge had his cases securely
boarded up between b~ulkheads on the
steamer, and the unloading was done by a
gang Of men, who carefully passed the
cases overland down the ships side into
the lighter, and from the lighter on to the
wharf. With this matter thus satisfacto-
rily settled, the future Of the comb-honey
export trade may be regarded as assured.
The immense quantity Of over So, DOC, 900
pounds of honey is annually produced and.
sold in the United States. and this produce
can easily be almost immeasurably in
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agriculturalists have long been given to its
production, and should the Foreign de-
nand increase to an appreciable extent,
this business win yet prove a source Of i'm
mense profit to the coast.
TIE fight between Conkling and the Ad-
ministration over the New York appoint
ments, brought forth additional proof that
Hayes Is not only a pious fraud but a most
exalted hypocrite. Conkling proved be-
yond all cavil that while his Frauduiency
was freshest in his prosestations of a desire
10 reform the Civil Service, he was writing
letters to Collector Arthur, begging places
for his friends, hangers-on and toadies, in
violation Of the commonest principles Of
Civil Service.
ALI can see now by merely looking, OBJ
askves the Boston Post. how it was that no
Republican eiphers were found in that
trunk when it was opened for the Senate
Committee. The party Of moral ideas had
swept and garnished their own record be-
fore they called the country to look at that
Of the Democrats.
THAT was q neat thing said by the New
York cypress, when it asserted that the
farther the inquiry into the campaign Of
1876 is carried, the clearer il shows "that
the burglars have got of with their plum
der. and put the police on the track Of the