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The sections, after grading and scraping, are to be placed in clean 
shipping cases having glass in one or both ends (fig. 14). Several of 
these may be placed in a single crate for shipment. To prevent break- 
ing down of the combs it is best to put straw in the bottom of the crate 
for the shipping cases to rest on, and the crates should be so placed ag. 
to keep the combs in a perpendicular position. The crates are also 
likely to be kept right side up if convenient handles are attached to the 
sides—preferably strips with the ends projecting beyond the corners. 
Care in handling will generally be given if the glass in the shipping 
cases shows. 
Owing to the appearance of statements of a sensational character to 
the effect that complete honey combs are manufactured by machinery 
and filled with sweets lower in price than honey (glucose, cane sugar, 
or mixtures of these), then sealed over and sold in the market as 
genuine honey, a strong suspicion exists regarding the comb honey 
commonly offered for sale. Wide circulation has been given to these 
wild stories by sensational 
newspaper writers, and even 
monthly periodicals, usually 
far more discriminating and 
A accurate, have repeated 
iN them. Some writers have 
VA, even tried to locate the 
‘*comb-honey factories” in 
given cities, but investiga- 
tion has always shown that 
the locations were myth- 
ical. The forfeit of $1,000 which a reputable firm has had standing 
for fifteen years past for a pound of manufactured comb honey of a 
nature to deceive the buyer still remains unclaimed. 
The National Bee-Keepers’ Association, at its annual convention held 
in St. Louis in 1904, offered also a like forfeit of $1,000 for satisfac- 
tory proof of the existence of such a thing as manufactured comb 
honey. But no claimant has come forward, notwithstanding the 
$2,000 which awaits his proof. The fact is, there is no truth in the 
‘‘varn,” and no one has thus far shown the thing possible. The comb 
honey in the markets is pure and wholesome—a healthful and nour- 
ishing sweet, easier to digest than cane sugar or any of the sirups 
so commonly sold. It is worth a place on the tables of all who can 
afford to use it. 





PRODUCTION OF WAX. 
No method has yet been brought forward which will enable one, at 
the present relative prices of honey and wax, to turn the whole work- 
ing force of the bees, or even the greater part of it, into the produc- 
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