44 Bee-Keeping Simplified for the 
muslin the honey is put into clean onc-pound or half-pound 
screw-cap jars: tic-overs, being messy, should not be used. For 
a single dozen a box, Fig 54, can be made, while larger 
Fic. 54. 
quantities are sent in ‘late’s cube sugar boxes, with plenty of 
packing, each jar veing wrapped in a separate piece of paper. 
ff sold in bulk the honey is run into tins, each holding twenty- 
cight pounds (4 ewt.). 
Sections fetch 9s. to 10s. per dozen glazed, and 7s. to 9s. 
unglazed, one-pound jars 9s. to 10s. per dozen, half-pounds 
ds. 6d. to 5s. per dozen. Much depends upon the grading, 
cleanliness, neatness and packing in obtaining and retaining 
customers. 
XVIL.—WINTERING. 
The requirements for successful wintering are: (1) Plenty 
ot bees; (2) a young prolific queen; (3) plenty of food; (4) a 
dry warm home. ‘* 
Plenty of bees are secured by re-queening and stimulative 
feeding after the honey harvest. Honey from brood combs 
should not be touched for sale purposes, as it is the best food 
for wintering. The necessary quantity of food is eight combs 
well filled and sealed over. If the bees are short of this it 
should be made up by cane sugar syrup given in a rapid 
