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hold its shape. It is wrapped in paraffin paper and then 

 given other wrappings, or, better still, putting into a carton 

 and properly labeling it on the outside. These bricks of 

 candied honey are secured from the cans of alfalfa honey — 

 the honey, of course, being granulated solid. The tin can is 

 stripped off from the cake with a pair of tinner's snips. The 

 bldck of honey is now put into a regu.lar machine for cutting 

 up butter into bricks. This consists of a cast-iron plate with 

 four upright standards on which slides up and down a frame 

 having two or more wires stretched tightly across it. These 

 wires are forced perpendicularly down through the block of 

 honey by a steady, even pressure. Another frame swung on 

 one of the standards as an axis, carries another set of v,-ires 

 which cut the honey on a horizontal plane. When cut up, 

 these bricks can then be taken off with a thin-bladed knife, , 

 placed on a piece of paraffin paper of suitable size, and 

 wrapped. 



We have developed quite a business in putting up brick 

 honey at Medina and vicinity. It is now offered in some of 

 the largest retail stores in Cleveland. Of late we have been 

 calling it "honey butter;" and under that appropriate title it 

 seems to take well with the general public. Our labels show 

 how to liquefy, if preferred in that form, and also explain 

 that pure honey, or nearly all of it, will turn to this solid 

 state at the approach of, or during cool weather. 



I believe this brick honey has a bright future, and that 

 many of our honey-producers will find it a field well worth 

 developing in their own localities, Ernest R. Root. 



Mr. Wheeler — Do you have any absconding? 



Mr. Root — Very little. I expected that, but we had very 

 little. Our early experiments indicated there would be more 

 or less absconding but I do not think that will be the case. 



Mr. Kimmey — I understand the advantage of taking that 

 to an out-yard is to control the drones? 



Mr. Root— That is all. 



Mr. Meredith — Do yoit expect to put them on the mar- 

 ket? If so, about what would the complete expense be? 



Mr. Root — ^We are going to put them on the market. 

 What the price will be I don't know. I am glad I don't. I 

 don't think it would be proper for me to mention prices at 

 this time. 



Mr. Meredith — Will they be in your catalogue? 



Mr. Root— In 1905. 



Mr. Colburn — The queen-cell is sealed? 



Mr. Root — Yes, what we call a "wrapped queen-cell." 



Mr. Colburn — Would that be warm enough in severely 

 cold nights? 



Mr. Root — I couldn't say as to that. In our locality we 

 had no difficulty from that. We had those cells hatch along 

 in November. This cage is what we call the Titoff case. It 

 is quite convenient for holding the cell. 



Dr. Miller — With your indulgence, I would like to say if 

 you want to try the plan of having queens fertilized with 



