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Second: Always have the packages clean and free from stickiness. 

 If in bottles, jars or cans, be sure they do not leak. 



Third: If producing considerable quantities of honey and selling 

 to stores or shipping it away have each case of comb honey all of one 

 kind, and all sections as near as possible equally filled and capped. 



Sell first to your neighbors, next to the stores in your nearest town, 

 and by the time your crops are too large for them to handle you will 

 have learned where and how to sell large quantities. If you start 

 supplying a store, try and reserve enough honey of the kind you 

 start with to carrjr that customer through to the next season. Noth- 

 ing so upsets the honey trade as a change in flavor of honey. Many 

 bee-keepers are now practicing "blending" or mixing their various 

 sorts of extracted honey so as to have it all of one general flavor. 

 This is excellent practice, but requires experience for its greatest 

 success. Strong flavored or very dark honeys must be scrupulously 

 left out of such blends. 



The best that can be done with comb honey is to see that in each 

 case all of the sections are of the same crop and endeavor to supply 

 only one kind to one customer for the season. 



AVhen customers comment on the differences in flavor it is necessary 

 to explain that the flavors of honey from different sorts of flowers 

 vary as do their odors. 



Extracted honey will granulate or crystallize in time, hence it is 

 not wise to bottle at one time more than the customer is likely to 

 dispose of before it begins to granulate. 



In melting granulated honey heat it slowly and as soon as it 

 softens stir it from time to time that it may heat uniformly. Be 

 careful not to over-heat it or the flavor will be injured or spoiled, and 

 the honey darkened. About 130° F. is as high as it is safe to heat it. 



DISEASES. 



There are three contagious diseases of bees now recognized, all of 

 which attack the brood or bees in the larval stage, and are known 

 respectively as American Foul Brood, European Foul Brood (the 



