42 AN EASY METHOD 



the drawer, which will be made perfect by them in a few 

 days. 



Bees never make honey, but extract it from such flowers 

 and other substances as yield it, without producing any 

 change from its original state. Good honey is taken princi- 

 pally from white clover, orchards, sugar-maple, bass and 

 other forest trees, while in blossom. Poor honey is extracted 

 from buckwheat and lowland flowers ; hence those who 

 would save their good honey unadulterated by that which is 

 poor, will remove it before the latter can be extracted. 



Special care is necessary in storing drawers of honey, 

 when removed from the care and protection of the bees, in 

 order t»preserve the honey from insects, which are great 

 lovers of it, particularly the ant. A chest, made perfectly 

 tight, is a good store-house. 



If the honey in the drawers is to be preserved for use or 

 market, it should be removed from the vapor of the bees, 

 which stains and colors the honey, swells the timber, cracks 

 the comb, and causes it to drip when warm weather com- 

 mences. A strip of cloth should be pasted over the aper- 

 tures, to prevent the entrance of dust, insects, &o. Now it 

 may be packed away in any secure place. 



Drawers of honey thus taken care of will improve by 

 age, for several years. Frost cracks the comb, and the 

 honey will drip as soon as warm .weather commences. 

 Drawers should be packed with their apertures up, for keep- 

 ing or carrying to market. All apiarians who would make 

 the most profit from their bees should remove the honey as 

 soon as the drawers are filled, and supply their places with 

 empty ones. The bees will commence their labors in an 

 empty box that has been filled sooner than any others. It 

 is proper here to remark that the bee-manager will find it 

 for his interest to attach a small piece of empty honey-comb 



