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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Dec. 15 



mean an enormously in- 

 creased comb-honey 

 trade of which the ex- 

 tracted-honey producer 

 himself will not be slow 

 to take advantage. In 

 this connection it should 

 be stated that honey for 

 this individual service 

 should be built on thin 

 or extra-thin foundation 

 in shallow frames. Full- 

 depth Langstroth combs 

 would require a too 

 heavy foundation, re- 

 sulting in a cut comb 

 honey having a mid-rib 

 altogether too thick. 



The possibilities in she 

 way of producing comb 

 honey with no more ap- 

 pliances than are re- 

 quired for shallow ex- 

 tracting-frames are al- 

 most unlimited. The 

 actual saving to the bee- 

 keepers of the country, 

 and the increased de- 

 mand for honey, are 

 matters for the future 

 to work out. 



One can scarcely fail 

 to see that, if the price 

 of basswood timber con- 

 tinues to advance, the 

 time may come when 

 our comb-honey trade 

 will work over into cut 

 combs of about a pound 

 weight, wrapped in 

 transparent paraffine 

 paper and enclosed in 

 a neatly printed carton. 

 It will be apparent, also, 

 that honey put up in 

 this form will ship much more safely than 

 that rigidly fastened to little squares of wood, 

 or, as we call them, sections. 



It will also be evident that much more 

 comb honpy can be produced in this way than 



Ready to place before the traveler. 



How the'individual services of comb honey in boxes of two dozen are turned over to 

 the dining-car people, and the big hotels and restaurants. 



A dish fit for a king." 



in section honey-boxes. Do what we will, 

 every honey-producer knows that he can 

 produce more of extracted than of comb in 

 the individual sections shut off between sep- 

 arators or fences. If the comb-honey busi- 

 ness can be re- 

 duced down to 

 simple extract- 

 ing-frames and 

 supers that can 

 be used over 

 over with- 

 the messy 

 of extract- 

 what may 

 we expect? 



The question 

 may arise, why 

 the comb-honey 

 producers could 

 not now convert 

 their supers into 

 extracting - su- 

 pers, cut up 

 their combs, 

 wrap them in 



and 

 out 

 job 

 ing 



