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on again in the supers when replaced on top. In this way 
it sometimes takes only a week to fill a thirty-eight or forty 
pound super with some of the best honey that can be obtained 
in this part of the country. If I have not made myself suffi- 
ciently clear I shall be pleased to answer any questions that 
may be put to me. There is one thing I forgot to mention, 
and that is that I discard old queens, and generally select 
young and prolific egg-layers—T. W. Cowan. Horsham, Feb- 
ruary 22nd, 1875. 
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AmerRiIcAN Honey. 
The following interesting account of the production and 
exportation of American honey appeared in the Zimes in the 
early part of 1879 :— 
An experiment which has been successfully carried out by 
a firm of American wholesale grocers is noteworthy as the 
first step to the introduction, probably on a large scale, of 
American honey in the comb. Last year a considerable trade 
was done in the exportation of honey from the United States 
to Europe, one New York firm alone sending over 300,000lb. 
of honey, principally to Great Britain. The bulk of this, how- 
ever, was sent in jars, either as pure extracted honey, or as 
comb honey—that is, honey bottled with portions of broken 
comb remaining in it. In the United States, however, honey 
when sold in the comb commands a much higher price than 
the honey sold in jars, and the efforts of honey-dealers there 
have long been directed to the production of small, clean, 
compact, and perfect sections of honeycomb, in a form readily 
saleable by the retail grocer. This object has been effected 
by placing sets of small boxes in the upper part of the hives 
for the bees to store the surplus honey in, and as each box 
is filled it can be lifted out and replaced by an empty one, 
in which the bees may continue their labours. These boxes 
are now commonly made with four glass sides and a strip of 
