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than 160° F. unless it is necessary to sterilize it because of contami- 
nation by disease. 
Extracted honey is put up in bottles or small tin cans for the retail 
trade, and in 5-gallon square tin cans or barrels for the wholesale 
market. Great care must be exercised if barrels are used, as honey 
will absorb moisture from the wood, if any is present, and cause 
leakage. The tin package is much to be preferred in most cases. In 
bottling honey for retail trade, it will well repay the bee keeper or 
bottler to go to considerable expense and trouble to make an attractive 
package, as the increased price received will more than compensate 
for the increased labor and expense. Honey should be heated to 
160° F. and kept there for a time before bottling, and the bottle 
should be filled as full as possible and sealed hermetically. 
Granulated honey.—Some honeys, such as alfalfa, granulate quickly 
after being extracted. Such honeys are sometimes allowed to gran- 
ulate in large cans and the semisolid mass is then cut into 1-pound 
bricks like a butter print and wrapped in paraffin paper. It may be 
put into paraffined receptacles before granulation, if desired. There 
is always a ready market for granulated honey, since many people 
prefer it to the liquid honey. 
COMB HONEY. 
Comb honey is honey as stored in the comb by the bees, the size and 
shape being determined by the small wooden sections provided by the 
bee keeper. Instead of having comb in large frames in which to store 
surplus honey, the bees are compelled to build comb in the sections 
and to store honey there (fig. 2). A full section weighs about 1 pound; 
larger ones are rarely used. By the use of modern sections and foun- 
dation the comb honey now produced is a truly beautiful, very uni- 
form product, so uniform in fact that it is often charged that it must 
be artificially manufactured. The purchaser of a section of comb 
honey may be absolutely certain, however, that he is obtaining a 
product of the bees, for never has anyone been able to imitate the bees’ 
work successfully. To show their confidence in the purity of comb 
honey, the National Bee Keepers’ Association offers $1,000 for a 
single pound of artificial comb filled with an artificially prepared sirup, 
which is at all difficult of detection. 
There are several different styles of sections now in use, the usual 
sizes being 4} inches square and 4 by 5 inches. There are also 
two methods of spacing, so that there will be room for the passage of 
bees from the brood chamber into the sections and from one super of 
sections to another. This is done either by cutting ‘bee ways”’ 
in the sections and using plain flat separators or by using ‘‘no bee- 
way’’ or plain sections and using “fences’’—separators with cleats 
fastened on each side, to provide the bee space. To describe all 
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