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DETAILS CONCERNING HONEY 



HOW TO MAKE COMB-HONEY 



EVERY bee-keeper who sends to the market honey 

 in the comb enfolded in an attractive carton, or with 

 the section neatly glazed, has produced a work of 

 art; for comb-honey as now marketed is an aesthetic 

 production, and the bee-keeper is an artist as much 

 as if he had painted a picture or had fashioned a 

 jewel. To most people who have an apiary as a 

 pleasurable adjunct to life in the country, the pro- 

 duction of comb-honey is most attractive, while the 

 production of extracted honey does not appeal to 

 them at all. Just the word "honey" calls to the 

 mind of most people a vision of amber sweetness 

 set in white-walled, waxen cells. 



The production of comb-honey is attended by 

 more difficulties than is the production of extracted 

 honey. The reason for this is largely because the 

 bees work more readily in cells already made from 

 which the honey has been extracted, than they do in 

 sections where they must undertake all of the expense 

 and labour of producing wax for the comb. More 

 than this, honey may be extracted from the comb 

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