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BEE -CULTURE. 



Fig. 1468.— Chaff Cushion. 



bottom-board. The case is completed by nailing strips, of the same 

 kind on the ends of the end-boards, and it is then ready to slide in 

 the glass. „ 



Honey should be kept clean and free from stickiness. Paste- 

 board boxes for one-pound sections of comb honey are very conven- 

 ient. 



In order to preserve comb 

 honey when it is desired to 

 hold it for a better market, it 

 should be kept free from damp- 

 ness. If water condenses on 

 the surface of the comb, it soon 

 dilutes the honey, which then 

 sours. On this account the 

 honey should never be put into 

 a cellar or other damp room. During damp and rainy weather, 

 the doors and windows to the honey-room or honey-house should be 

 closed, and opened again when the air is dry. Comb honey should 

 also be stored where it is not likely to freeze, as freezing contracts 

 the wax so as to break the Combs and let the honey run. 



We especially recommend the reader to Mr. Root for further 

 information upbn this and other departments of bee-culture ; and 

 we are assured that he is a gentleman who takes pleasure in answer- 

 ing with promptness all 

 correspondence, with 

 information from the 

 rich stores of his prac- 

 tical experience. He 

 also publishes a semi- 

 monthly magazine de- 

 voted to instruction in 

 bee-culture. 



All honey, as a gen- 

 eral thing, candies at 

 the approach of cold 

 weather^ It has been 

 suggested that thin 

 honey candies quicker 

 than thick, and such 

 may be the case ; for honey that has been perfectly ripened in 

 the hive, that is, has been allowed to remain in the hive several 

 weeks after being sealed over, will sometimes not candy at all, even 



Fig. 1469. — Sentinel Bees Guarding Entrance to Hive. 



