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it finally readies the consumer. The small glass container is 

 the most expensive way. More pounds of honey can be pro- 

 duced by this method, practically double the quantity that can 

 be produced in one pound sections. 



One may have enough supers so that they need not extract 

 until the close of the harvest, or the honey may be removed 

 from the combs as fast as it is ripened and capped by the bees. 

 If honey is extracted before this and put on the market without 

 being artificially ripened, the results will be unsatisfactory to 

 both consumer and producer. 



The room in which the extracting is done will need to be kept 

 at a temperature of about 80 degrees F., for some time before 

 extracting, so the honey may be thoroughly warmed, or trouble 

 \vill follow in getting it from the combs without damage to the 

 combs. 



Markijting Honey 



While there is not as much honey consumed as there would be 

 if people realized its food value, or were accustomed to its use, 

 still the demand is usually greater than the supply. 



The bee-keeper or would be bee-keeper should carefully con- 

 sider the opportunities of his home market, — if there is already 

 a demand for honey, or if, with a reasonable effort, a demand 

 could be created. If honey can be disposed of in the locality 

 where it is produced, where it may be delivered to the dealer 

 or consumer direct, it is a great advantage over the producer 

 who must ship to a distant market and deal with those with 

 whom he has never met. Until the express companies are com- 

 pelled by a strong law to handle comb honey more carefully, 

 this means of conveyance between producer and consumer will 

 never be satisfactory. 



Parcel post is comparatively a new mode and almost untried. 

 Small parcels less than eleven pounds have been shipped five 

 hundred miles with safety but at present there are too many 

 cases of brealcage to justify dependence. I look for great 

 improvements in the parcel post system when times are again 

 normal. From my own experience freight shipments have been 

 the safest. Eight or ten cases of comb honey are packed carer 

 fully in a carrier (see Fig. 21) provided with handles which 

 has a layer of hay, straw or similar material at the bottom, of 



