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prevent the bees from clustering- from the bottom of the brood cham- 

 ber to the top of the second story. This gives them the double 

 advantage of holding the heat of a cool night and of being ready 

 for their work next morning, instead of receding into the brood 

 chamber and crowding and clogging it, while their work above is 

 getting cold, as is often the case when, in working for section honey 

 the bees are divided up, a small handful to a section, which is the 

 cause of their receding to the brood chamber of a cool night. This 

 is the condition in our part of the country. If I lived in a section 

 of country where there is a longer-continued flow of honey, I would 

 work for section honey. 



The purpose of the three empty combs in the second story is 

 to get the bees started up, and they fill those empty combs, and then 

 go right ahead with their work of filling the empty frames with 

 the finest of well matured comb honey. I sometimes think the bees 

 fill the empty frames about as quickly as they do the empty combs. 

 Sometimes I put on a third story for bulk comb. 



BUIiK COMB FAYS. 



Some one asks whether bulk honey sells on the market. I 

 should say it does sell. We sell bulk at I23/2 cents, extracted 10 

 cents, section 15 cents. We sell the greater part of our honey right 

 at home. Farmers come for the bulk, from all over the countr}^ 

 with dish-pans, jars, buckets and lard-cans with lids. The last 

 named is the kind of vessel that I ship bulk comb honey in. I cut 

 out the L frames, set the big slabs on end in the big cans, and 

 when they are filled I ship them by freight with perfect safety. 



I fill mail orders from the cities. I take what we call the odds 

 and ends, that is, combs that are not filled out square and nice, 

 very tender combs, combs that are not capped well on one side, 

 broken combs and bulged and half filled sections, — these T take and 

 cut up in fine shape and place them on No. 5 oval wooden dishes, 

 two pounds to the dish. (I first lay a small square of oil wrapping 

 paper in the dish before laying in the honey, — this keeps the dish 

 from leaking). These dishes go out by the hundreds. We have 

 them on hand constantly for the home retail trade, lliey are most 

 handy for the grocers, for all they have to do is to wrap them up 

 and hand them out to the customer. I wrap these dishes of honey 

 carefully, pack them in boxes and barrels and ship tjiem wherever 

 I wish. You see they are always ready weighed out. 



Now the waste from those odds and ends, we throw into the 

 dump, a tub for that purpose. AA^ith a heavy stamper I mash them 

 fine, then throw them into the colanders, together with the cap- 

 pings from the extracting combs, to drain. 



