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The extracted honey is run into open buckets or tanks and left, 
covered with cheese cloth, to stand a week or so in a dry, warm room 
not frequented by ants. It should be skimmed each day until per- 
fectly clear, and is then ready to be put into cans or barrels for 
marketing, or to be stored ina dry place. Square tin cans, each made 
to hold 60 pounds of extracted honey, are sold by dealers in apiarian 
supplies. This style of package is a convenient one to transport, and 
is also acceptable to dealers. Wooden shipping cases are usually con- 
structed so as to hold two of these cans. Barrels and kegs may be 
used, especially for the cheaper grades of honey used chiefly in the 
manufacture of other articles. They should be dry, made of well- 
seasoned, sound wood, and the hoops driven tight and secured, as 
well-ripened honey readily absorbs moisture from wood, causing - 
shrinkage and leakage. They should also be coated inside with bees- 
wax or paraffin. This is easily done by warming the barrels and then 
pouring in a gallon or two of hot wax 
or paraffin, and, after having driven 
in the bungs tightly, rolling the bar- 
rels about a few times and turning 
them on end. The work should be 
done quickly and the liquid not ad- 
hering to the inner surfaces poured 
out at once, in order to leave but a 
thin coating inside. 
The surplus combs are to be re- 
moved at the close of the season and 
hung an inch or so apart on racks 
placed in a dry, airy room, where no 
artificial heat is felt. Mice,if permit- ° 
ted to reach them, will do consider- 
able damage by gnawing away the cells 
containing pollen or those in which 
bees have been bred, and which therefore contain larval and pupal skins. 
Moth larvee are not likely to trouble them until the following spring, 
but upon the appearance of milder weather their ravages will begin, and 
if the combs can not be placed under the care of the bees at once they 
must be fumigated with burning sulphur or with bisulphide of carbon. 



Fig. 10.—Automatic reversible honey extractor. 
COMB HONEY. 
The main difference to be observed in preparing colonies for the 
production of comb honey, instead of extracted, is in the adjust- 
ment of the brood apartment at the time the supers are added. After 
the colony has been bred up to the greatest possible strength, the 
brood apartment should be so regulated in size, when the honey flow 
begins and the supers are added, as to crowd many of the bees out and 
into the supers placed above. 
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