224 ^ Modern Bee-Farm 



that is more grateful and refreshing. Try it. Many thousands , 

 of pounds of honey may be used in this way, and all the users 

 be benefited. — British Bee Journal. 



General Uses. 



Besides the foregoing, honey is used in preparations for 

 preserving leather ; in ointments for various purposes, such as 

 for chapped hands, sores, &c. ; and is very largely used by 

 chemists in their many preparations. For printers' rollers it 

 takes the place of sugar, doing better work, arid making a 

 more durable article. 



The reader will thus see that honey is not simply an article 

 of luxury, nor of ordinary diet ; and instead of bee-keepers 

 complaining that there is little demand for their produce, let 

 each endeavour to find some new use for it ; and thus make an 

 opening for the consumption of honey by the ton, where other- 

 wise it would never have been thought of. 



A large firm of biscuit makers were induced to start a new 

 biscuit sweetened with honey, and thereupon required two 

 tons of the bees' product weekly. Though we may not often 

 find an opening for it to this extent, there are many ways in 

 which honey is, and can be disposed of, other than for table 

 use. 



