Thomas County cat., 1886-11-11
MARKETING HONEY.
Quick and Profitable Sales Largely Do.
pending ON the Style of Package.

Quick and Profitable sales Largely De-
pending ON the Style of Package.
With those who make bee culture
a specially the marketing of their
honey becomes a matter of much con-
Germ. Even those who produce honey
in moderate amounts are sometimes
puzzled how to dispose of it tc the best
advantage. With surplus product OF
from ore thousand to SIX thousand
pounds the difference of half cent per
pound in price amounts to quite sum
in the aggregate. Style and ncatness
in preparing either comb or extracted
honey for market has an important
bearing upon the results. If taken into
market in a solid state and dealt out in
Il slovenly manner no one need expect
remunerative prices. This was we'll
Illustrated recently in an adjoining city
where marketing from wagon is still
in vogue. One producer offered his
one-pound sections of honey neatly
placed in paper boxes, with fancy
labels. being both attractive to the
sight and handy for customers to carry
to their homes. His honey sold readily,
while that of another producer, scarce
ly half block away, dealt out in
broken masses and a clumsy manner.
hardly sold at all, even though offered
at much cheaper rates.
Style of package has much to do with
quick sales nowadays. and this is no
less true in selling honey than any
other product. With some apiarists
the idea prevails tha; there is an over
production of honey. rs of almost every
other productions: hence the depressed
prices. But every thing else is corre-
spondingly lower. it must be remem-
bered. and sales are slow in almost
every department of trade. 1t is. per-
haps, nearer the truth to assert that tho
unsystematic methods of producing and
offering honey for sale have much to
do with depressing the honey market.
The aforementioned incident of meth
DDS of honey selling will illustrate this
point.
Again. enterprising apiarists have
put up their honey in small. pound and
half-pound jelly glasses. which. neatly
labeled, generally meet with quick
sales if placed at the country groceries.
Comb honey. if produced in small Sec
tions, can likewise be offered in the
same way, placed in twenty-pound
cases with panels of glass inserted in
one side to show the snowy combs. A
little pains on the part of the store
keeper in calling attention to the honey
will generally result IN the disposal of
good quantity of it.
But the main object of this article is
to suggest and impress upon those who
produce honey the importance of cre-
ating honey market for honey. 1t is
no wild assertion to state that scarcely
half the American people make use Of
honey as an article of diet. Its virtues
and medicinal qualities arc, in fact.
hut little realized; the fault lies at the
door of the producer. The introduce
ton of honey into genercl use us a sta
pie article of use only need be accom-
pliShed to create regular and cOnti-
mental demand for it, This has been
accomplished in various ways. Some
bee-keepers have sent small, free SAM
pies to each family, with statement Of
price per pound and in quantities.
Others have circulated small, neat
pamphlets (gotten up for the purposc),
giving the virtues and advantages of
honey cersas the glucose and similar
products.
All the methods given above may be
combined with success. A little en-
ergy and push will accomplish much
in creating home market, even in
small villages. When the miserable
glucose mixtures, falsely termed
golden drip" etc, are superseded by
the daily use OF pure honey. then will
the many forms Of disor,iered stomachs
and kindred complaints (superinduced
by the excess of acid in those self-same
glucose componnds) cease. and health,
wealth and happiness ensae as a con-
sequence Practical Farmer.