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ucating people in reference to extracted honey, fighting all 

 adulteration, pushing it into the candy, tobacco, and confection- 

 ery establishments, deserves our hearty gratitude. Mr. IMuth's 

 market has become stupendous, and graphically shows what 

 this trade is to be in the near future, when all our cities have 

 a Muth to work for us. I would also recommend to all the 

 very valuable little pamphlet of Mr. Chas. Dadant, on the 

 production and sale of extracted honey. It is most interest- 

 ing reading to the honey producer, and shows what energy 

 and thought may accomplish in this direction. 



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 procure 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, too, should be chiefly in small sections (Fig. 55), for, 

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

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

 nicely, and look very tempting to the proud housewife, espe- 

 cially if some epicurean friends are to he 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 capped, 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 another, 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 



