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much brood has been reared may be saved intact and used as 

 needed by the bees in early spring or as additional winter stores. 

 If an eight frame hive is used, it will be best to have two of the 

 hive bodies reserved as the brood chamber. 



I would prefer a ten frame hive, though, to use in this way. 

 The hives may be packed inside a winter case surrounded by 

 leaves or other dry material, for winter, or carried to a dry 

 under-ground cellar where an even temperature may be main- 

 tained and light, mice and rats excluded. 



If one wishes to keep a larger number of colonies and sell 

 honey to the trade it will be almost a necessity to adopt some 

 style of hive adapted to the production of comb honey in the 

 small wooden boxes called sections of which there are several 

 styles. It will be better to decide on some one style of section and 

 then have all hives and fixtures afike, as several styles of hives 

 and sections in the same yard are a nuisance at best. It is 

 largely a matter of individual taste, or local demand, which 

 style of section you adopt. The standard section most in use 

 is four and one-fourth by four and one-fourth by one and 

 seven-eighths inches ; and where separators are used, as is neces- 

 sary if honey is to be cased, it will hold about one pound. The 

 plain section 4^ x 4^ x i4^ or 4 x 5 x if used with a fence will 

 contain about the same amount of honey, but the honey will be 

 filled nearer to the edges of the wood and sometimes will be 

 attached to the fence, so as to make a broken surface and often 

 leakage when removed from the supers. In casing to put on the 

 market one must be a little more careful in handling than where 

 a bee-way section is used. Some think the plain section when 

 filled makes a more attractive package and rather a better seller, 

 but this is lost when honey is sold in cartons. 



Too much cannot be said in favor of the use o«f the carton 

 for each individual section of comb honey. Honey must be 

 eaten just as it is taken from the bees. It cannot be washed or 

 cleaned if soiled by contact with dust, flies or other dirt to any 

 advantage without detracting from its appearance and that is 

 what we buy comb honey for. If it does not appeal to the eye 

 we may as well buy extracted honey. The day when comb honey 

 can be exposed on the grocer's counter or shelves for days and 

 then sold is largely of the past. To be sure, comb honey can be 

 handled and taken to the consumer in as nice condition as in 



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