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room where no water or steam is ever kept. Indeed, a 

 kitchen is quite a good place to keep honey, the higher 

 up the better. 



KEEPING HONEY IN GARRET. 



It is well known that a cellar, except in particularly 

 dry localities, is about the worst place in which to keep 



Fig, 57. — Unmarketable Sections. 



honey ; but it is not so well known that the place the 

 farthest removed from the cellar — the garret — is one of 

 the very best places. My mother kept some sections 

 throughout the latter part of summer in. a garret, and 

 after enduring the freezing of the following winter they 

 were as fine as when first put there. The roasting heat 

 of the summer in that garret had so ripened the honey 

 as to make it proof against injury from freezing. 



