TO4 BEE-KEEPING FOR PROFIT 
bottles, allowing for carriage and breakages, 
the small apparent advantage vanishes. 
Sections should be graded according to 
the colour of the honey and weight of the 
combs, Attractive cases may be obtained in 
which to place them, but before being put 
therein the sections must, of course, be cleaned 
of all odd pieces of wax and propolis that are 
generally found adhering to them when taken 
from the hive. 
Bees -Wax.—Bees-wax is one of the by- 
products and has a certain commercial value 
for the bee-keeper. All pieces of wax, how- 
ever small, comb and foundation, should be 
carefully preserved, and never wasted. They 
should be stored in an air-tight tin box, to 
secure them against the attentions of the wax- 
moth until such time as they can be melted 
down. Only comb of a very dark colour, or 
such as has the cells thickly coated with 
linings of cocoons, are not worth retaining 
and should be burnt forthwith. 
Before melting the wax, it should be sorted 
approximately into light and dark varieties, and 
each melted separately. Combs from the 
brood-nest should also be treated separately 
owing to the additional straining required by 
the wax obtained from that source. 
