44 Bee-Keeping Simplified for the 



muslin the honey is put into clean one-pound or half-pound 

 screw-cap jars; tie-overs, being messy, should not be used. For 

 a single dozen a box. Fig 54, can be made, while larger 



Fig. 54. 



quantities are sent in Tate's cube sugar boxes, with plenty of 

 packing, each jar ueing wrapped in a separate piece of paper. 

 If sold in bulk the honey is run into tins, each holding twenty- 

 eight pounds (j cwt.). 



Much depends upon the grading, cleanliness, neatness and 

 packing in obtaining and retaining customers. 



XVII.— WINTERING. 



The requirements for successful wintering are : (1) Plenty 

 of bees ; (2) a young prolific queen ; (3) plenty of food ; (4) a 

 dry warm home. 



Plenty of bees are secured by re-queening and stimulative 

 feeding after the honey harvest. Honey from brood combs 

 should not be touched for sale purposes, as it is the best food 

 for wintering. The necessary quantity of food is eight combs 

 well filled and sealed over. If the bees are short of this it 

 should be made up by white cane sugar syrup given in a rapid 

 feeder — see Feeders and Feeding — not later than the end of 

 September. 



