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Exhibition of Extracted Honey. 



Extracted honey for show purposes must be bright and 

 transparent, enclosed in a bottle having a screw cap, that 

 the contents may be readily reached. The glass should 

 be of the finest quality and the jar as narrow as possible. 



Messrs. Abbott, of Southall, provide a very neat glass as 

 Fig. 45, designed especially for exhibition purposes. The 

 jar already mentioned, in i-lb. and J-lb. sizes, will also be 

 found very suitable. 



COMB-HONEY. 



Many more people have gone in for producing this 

 article than that in the liquid form ; consequently the 

 price has gone down considerably during the past ten 

 years. It has fallen something like 6d. or yd. per pound, 

 whereas the other has come down about 2d. It is time 

 therefore that extracted honey had more attention if only 

 to place comb at a better paying rate. Supply and 

 demand, however, must regulate the price, and it is no 

 use bee-keepers asking as much now as they obtained a 

 few years since when the article was scarce, as wholesale 

 and retail dealers alike are quite powerless to alter the 

 state of the market. 



The greatest trouble, however, is that all the small pro- 

 ducers throw their comb-honey upon^the market as soon 

 as it is removed from the hives, and thus a false impression 

 is made, and prices rule low, accordingly, though the 

 probability is that the total output may be under the 

 average. 



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have already been noticed in their various forms ; and the 

 kind one intends to adopt should be on hand before April 

 1st, when the foundation can be inserted during that 



