380 THH bbk-keeper's guidb ; 



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 should be chiefly in small sections (Fig. 108), for, as 

 before stated, such are the packages that surely sell. Sections 

 from three to six inches square will just fill a plate nicely, and 

 look very tempting to the proud housewife, especially if some 

 epicurean friends are to be 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 all are capped, 

 or at least as soon as the harvest is over, as delay makes them 

 highways of travel for the bees, which always mars their 

 beauty. 



In case old combs are near by, the bees incorporate chip- 

 pings from it in the cappings, much to the injury of the comb 

 honey. Thus sections should be always produced in supers 

 above the brood-combs, or distant from old, dark combs. 



When removed, if demanded, glass the sections, but before 

 this we should place them in hives one upon another, or spe- 

 cial 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 snlphur. 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 

 and deal out death to all moth-larvae. This should always be 

 done before shipping the honey, if we regard our reputations 

 as precious. It is well to do this within two weeks after re- 

 moval, and also two weeks later, so as to destroy the moth- 

 larvae not hatched when the sections are removed. Bisulphide 



