326 Preparation for Skipping', 



COMB HONEY. 



This, from its wondrous beauty, especially when light- 

 colored and immaculate, will always be a coveted article 

 for the table, and will ever, with proper care, bring the 

 highest price paid for honey. So it will always be best 

 to work for this, even though we may not be able to pro- 

 cure it in such ample profusion as we may the extracted. 

 He who has all kinds will be able to satisfy every demand, 

 and will most surely meet with success. 



RULES TO BE OBSERVED. 



This should be chiefly in small sections (Fig. 80), for, 

 as before stated, such are the packages that surely sell. 

 Sections from three to six inches square will just fill a plate 

 nicely, and look very tempting to the proud housewife, 

 especially if some Epicurean friends are to be entertained. 



The sections should surely be in place at the dawn of 

 the white clover season, so that the apiarist may secure the 

 most of this irresistible nectar, chaste as if capped by the 

 very snow itself. They should be taken away as soon as 

 all are capped, or at least as soon as the harvest is over, as 

 delay makes them highways of travel for the bees, which 

 always mars their beauty. 



When removed, if demanded, glass the sections, but 

 before this we should place them in hives one upon an- 

 other, or special boxes made tight, with a close cover, in 

 which to store either brood frames in winter or sections at 

 any season, and fume them with burning sulphur. This 

 is quickly and easily done by use of the smoker. Get the 

 fire in the smoker well to burning, add the sulphur, then 

 place this in the top hive, or top of the special box. The 

 sulphurous fumes will descend and deal out death to all 

 moth larva;. This should always be dorte before shipping 

 the honey, if we regard our reputations as precious. It is 

 well to do this within two weeks after removal, and also 

 two weeks later, so as to destroy the moth larva not 

 hatched when the sections are removed. 



If separators have been used, these sections are in good 

 condition to be glassed, and are also in nice shape to ship 



