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making 120 pounds ; six-pound friction top pails, ten in a case, making 

 60 pounds, and three-pound friction top cans, 20 in a case, also 

 making 60 pounds, are used for both comb and extracted honey in 

 smaller sized packages for retailing in the original package. This 



Friction top honey pails. 



standard is so well known that orders are always made in accordance 

 with the price lists, in all of which the various sizes appear in the 

 same regular order. 



Barrels are not advised for honey, as they are very cumbersome 

 in handling, besides there is danger of losing the honey by leakage 

 due to bursting of the hoops or the drying out of the staves in our 

 southern climate. They are good enough for the inferior grades of 

 honey, and are used extensively for shipping them to large biscuit 

 and cracker factories; but, while this is the case in the eastern part 

 of Texas and in adjoining States, honey cans are almost entirely used 

 in the West ; and, for good grades of honey, such are an advertisement 

 for the producer, and their general use is therefore recommended. 



The question regarding the advisability of using second hand 

 cans, those that have been used once before for shipping honey, is 

 one that confronts many beekeepers, on account of the cheap price 

 at which they are advertised. Good honey should never be risked 

 in anything but bright new cans, and, even for poorer grades of 

 honey the results of the risk may prove them dear at any price. 



BULK COMB HONEY. 



Since the expense of section honey production is so much greater, 

 the Texas beekeepers long ago resorted to other ways of producing 

 comb honey, and today there is very little section honey produced in 

 this State. Bulk comb honey is the leading product of Texas apiaries, 

 and, produced in shallow frames, with full sheets of foundation, the 

 bees do not hesitate to enter the supers, therefore making it possible 

 to obtain larger averages per colony. Although the bees are required 

 to build their own comb, it is not necessary to crowd them, and, con- 

 sequently there is less swarming. In this case they work much more 

 readily in the supers and the colonies are more easily managed. On 

 the whole, bulk comb honey production is easier, less laborious and 



