440 A Modern Bee-Farm 
such as for chapped hands, sores, etc. ; and is very largely 
used by chemists in their many preparations. For printers’ 
rollers it takes the place of sugar or treacle, doing better 
work, and making: a more durable article. 
The reader will thus see that honey is not simply an 
article of luxury, nor of ordinary diet; and instead of 
bee-keepers complaining that there is little demand for 
their produce, let each endeavor to find some new use 
for it; and thus make an opening for the consumption of 
honey by the ton, where otherwise it would never have 
been thought of. 
A large firm of biscuit makers was induced to start a 
new biscuit sweetened with honey, and thereupon required 
two tons of the bees’ product weekly. Though we may 
not often find an opening for it to this extent, there are 
many ways in which honey is, and can be disposed of, 
other than for table use. 
