328 Marketing Queens and Bees. 
will pay him to furnish his own boxes. These should 
be made of whitewood, very neat and glassed in front to 
show the honey, and the cover so fixed that unglassed sec- 
tions—and these, probably, will soon become the most 
popular—cannot be punched or fingered. Be sure, too, 
that the label, with kind of honey, grade and name of 
apiarist, (Fig. 133) be so plain that “he who runs may 
read.” 
Comb honey that is to be kept in tne cool weather of 
autumn, or the cold of winter, must be kept in warm 
rooms, or the comb will break from the sections when 
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handled. By keeping it quite warm for some days previous 
to shipment, it may be sent to market even in winter, but 
must be handled very carefully, and must make a quick 
transit. 
Above all, det “taste and neatness” ever be your motto. 
MARKETING BEES. 
Before leaving this subject, let me say a word about 
selling bees. . 
SELLING QUEENS. 
_As queen rearing and shipping have already been suffi- 
ciently described, it only remains to be said that the vender 
of queens cannot be too prompt or fair or cautious. Suc- 
cess no less than morality demands the most perfect honest 
If, for any reason, queens cannot be sent promptly, the 
