32S Marketing Queens and Bees. 



will pay him to furnish his own boxes. These should 

 be made of whitewood, very neat and glassed in front to 

 show the honey, and the cover so fixed that unglassed sec- 

 tions—and these, probably, will soon become the most 

 popular — cannot be punched or fingered. Be sure, too, 

 that the label, with kind of honey, grade and name of 

 apiarist, (Fig. 133) be so plain that "he who runs may 

 read." 



Comb honey that is to be kept in the cool weather of 

 autumn, or the cold of winter, must be kept in warm 

 i-ooms, or the comb will break from the sections when 



Fig. 138. 



handled. By keeping it quite warm for some days previous 

 to shipment, it may be sent to market even in winter but 

 must be handled very carefully, and must make a quick 

 transit. 



Above all, let *<■ taste and neatness''^ ever be. your motto. 



MARKETING BEES. 



Before leaving this subject, let me say a word about 

 ■selling bees. 



SELLING Queens. 



As queen rearing and shipping have already been suffi- 

 ■ciently described, it only remains to be said that the vender 

 -of queens cannot be too prompt or fair or cautious. Sue- 

 cess no less than morality demands the most perfect honesty 

 Jf, for any reason, queens cannot be sent promptly the 



