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SECTION HONEY. 



chimney. This simple appliance gives the bee-keeper great 

 control over his bees. ■ Its power will be very much increased 

 with vicious bees if a few drops of creosote are' put on the 

 sacking or other fuel. The best smoker is the Bingham 

 pattern, which can be bought from any hive-dealer for about 

 four shillings. The Clark smoker is preferred by some 

 persons, but it is liable to go out, and few things are more 

 disconcerting to the bee-keeper when he is attacked than to 

 find that his only defence has failed him when he most 

 required it. 



A few years ago comb honey was never seen in any 

 grocer's shop, because the waste and consequent loss in 

 dividing made it unprofitable. Now, there is not a first-class 

 grocer's shop in any large town in which honey is not sold in 

 large quantities during the season, at prices which are fairly 

 profitable to both producer and seller. Comb honey is now 



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Fig. 6. — ilb. Section filled with Comb, 

 sold in small frames about two inches w^ide, called sections, 

 each of which holds one or more pounds of honey, according . 



Fig. 7.— Benthall Crate, holding Twenty-one lib. Sections. 



