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PLEASVBABLE BEE-KEEPING. 



capping is decidedly to be preferred, in order to ensure 

 with the all-round sealing a perfect because the most 

 marketable section of honey. Badly filled sections 

 that are unfit for sale should be cut up and put into 

 the honey cistern when the grading takes place. 



Before sections leave the producer they must be 

 scraped free of propolis, and placed in cases with glass 

 on one or both sides. These cases are either made of 

 enamelled tin or cardboard. Instead of using these 

 boxes the faces of the section may be glazed and the 



Fig. 55. 



glass fixed on by a slip of paper being pasted round 

 the section f inch of which ornamented is fixed on the 

 glass, thus not only holding it securely to the section, 

 but making a most attractive article of commerce. 

 For safe transit to and from shows, and at the same 

 time proving a means of effective display, show cases 

 may be used, which fit into or are attached to spring 

 travelling crates (Fig. 55). 



These and other travelling crates add so much to 

 the cost of the outfic that other means must be devised 

 for the safe carriage of sections to the dealer or 



