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The comb honey off and hives ready for their covers. 



matter to remove a thousand or more pounds of surplus honey from 

 the hives within less than an hour's time, thus permitting the rest 

 of the day to be devoted to getting the honey ready for market in 

 the honey house. 



HOW IT IS PACKED. 



As the supers of honey are brought into the honey house, they are 

 stacked up as high as con- 

 venient. From these piles 

 of white waxen honey combs, 

 filled with the most delicious 

 sweet, the cans in which it is 

 shipped to market are filled. 



The eases, each holding two 

 60-pound square cans, the 

 same as for extracted honey, 

 except that they have large 

 openings with eight-inch 

 screw caps, have been in 

 most general use. However, 

 the other regular and popu- 

 lar sizes of packages, 12, 6, 

 and 3 pound friction-top 

 round pails — the two sizes in 

 cases of ten pails each, and 

 the latter twenty to a case — 

 have come to the front very 

 rapidly. Handling honey in 

 the original packages is com- 

 ing more in vogue, and, as 

 that is the proper way, it 

 should be encouraged by bee- 

 keepers. 



Tons of delicious honey. 



