326 Preparation for Shipping. 
COMB HONEY. 
This, from its wondrous beauty, especially when light- 
colored and immaculate, will always be a coveted article 
for the table, and will ever, with proper care, bring the 
highest price paid for honey. So it will always be best 
to work for this, even though we may not be able to pro- 
cure it in such ample profusion as we may the extracted. 
He who has all kinds will be able to satisfy every demand, 
and will most surely meet with success. © 
RULES TO BE OBSERVED. 
This should be chiefly in small sections (Fig. 80), for, 
as before stated, such are the packages that surely sell. 
Sections from three to six inches square will just fill a plate 
nicely, and look very tempting to the proud: housewife, 
especially if some Epicurean friends are to be entertained. 
The sections should surely be in place at the dawn of 
the white clover season, so that the apiarist may secure the 
most of this irresistible nectar, chaste as if capped by the 
very snow itself. They should be taken away as soon as 
all are capped, or at least as soon as the harvest is over, as 
delay makes them highways of travel for the bees, which 
always mars their beauty. 
When removed, if demanded, glass the sections, but 
before this we should place them in hives one upon an- 
other, or special boxes made tight, with a close cover, in 
which to store either brood frames in winter or sections at 
any season, and fume them with burning sulphur. This 
is quickly and easily done by use of the smoker. Get the 
fire in the smoker well to burning, add the sulphur, then 
place this in the top hive, or top of the special box, The 
sulphurous fumes will descend and deal out death to all 
moth larve. This should always be done before shipping 
the honey, if we regard our reputations as precious. It is 
well to do this within two weeks after removal, and also 
two weeks later, so as to destroy the moth larve not 
hatched when the sections are removed. 
If separators have been used, these sections are in good 
condition to be glassed, and are also in nice shape to ship 
