FORTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES. 



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VENEERING. 



The most difficult thing about the packing is to pre- 

 vent veneering. It seems to come so natural, when a 



Fig. 96. — Feeder- Sections. 



particularly white and straight section goes into the case, 

 to put it next the glass, best side out at that. But it is 

 especially desirable that the outside shall be a fair index 

 of the entire contents of the case. In the long run there 

 is money to be made by it, to say nothing of the feeling 

 of satisfaction. 



HONEY-SHOW. 



When the cases are filled and weighed, they are 

 stacked up in piles, and these piles are mostly — perhaps 

 always — so arranged as to make the best show possible. 

 There is no object in this beyond the pleasure it gives 

 the family to see it for a few days, perhaps only for a 



