done and electric lighting current is available this can ‘be used instead of 
‘the dry-cell batteries. In this case, it will be necessary to make a 
crheostat, or transformer, so as to reduce the voltage. This can be 
arranged by passing the current through an ordinary electric flat- -iron, but 
a better way is tz pass it through water in a quart glass jar. An Economy 
‘or Mason jar answers well. Two coarse perpendicular wires, reaching 
from top to bottom, are fixed Inside the jar so that they cannot touch 
each other. The connectionswith the embedder are made at the top of 
these wires. The jar is filled with water and a little salt is added, it may 
be as much as half a teaspoonful, which will bring the current up to the 
strength required to do the work. This current will be found more regular 
than from the dry-cell batteries which are gradually getting weaker all the 
time. The strength of the current should not be great enough to make 
the wires too hot and is regulated by the amount of salt which requires 
do be added a little at a time until it is fsund to be just right. 
PREPARATION OF HONEY FOR MARKET. 
Honey for the retail trade is usually put up in either upright screw- 
‘cap glass jars, holding 12 or 16 ounces net, or metal pails with levers lids, 
of four or five pounds capacity, net. Members of the Beekeepers’ Associa- 
tion can obtain the Association registered h-mey labels, specially designed 
for use thereon. Cans holding 60tbs, are a handy size for storing honey: 
and selling it in bulk. Sections are generally sold just as they are taken 
from the hives, after being scraped free from propolis and wax. It would 
be an improvement, however, if they were put up in cartons so as to 
protect them from dust and insects. Chunk honey, also called “bulk comb 
honey,” is comb honey cut into strips and put into glass jars the space at 
the sides being filled with liquid extracted honey. The latter requires to 
be heated first of all to about 130 degrees (Fah.) and kept at that tem: 
perature for two or three hours so as to retard granulation as long as 
possible. 
FEEDING AND FEEDERS. 
Feeding, to some extend, is as a rule, necessary every year in the 
Kootenays. June being sometimes a wet month, the bees may be unable 
to obtain sufficient food from outside in which case they will require to 
be fed. Syrup feeding in early spring is often essential also, equal parts 
of sugar and water being given at these periods. If sufficient honey for 
winter, about 30tbs., is not left in the hives at the time of extracting, it 
will be necessary to feed syrup, two parts of sugar to one of water, to 
make up the deficiency. This feeding which should be as rapid as pos: 
. sible should be finished by the end of September, but if not then by the 
miidle of October, at the latest, so that the bees are able to store 
and seal it over in the combs before the weather gets too cold. 
A good feeder can be made out of a four or five pound lever 
lid honey pail. About a dozen small holes, just about large 
enough to pass an ordinary pin through, are pierced in the lid. It is then 
filled with syrup and inverted over the feed-hole that has been cut in the 
centre of the quilt. A glass Mason jar with the lid perforated in the same 
way also makes an excellent feeder, only in this case a small wooden 
Platform covered with screen wire has ts be made so as to provide a bee- 
way under it. Dry sugar feeding with brown sugar auswers well for supply- 
ing colonies in need in June and is good for stimulating nuclei. The ary 
sugar feeder is made by nailing a thin piece of board on each side of a 
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