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the arrangement of honey-house and tanks given in Chap. VII., 

 and the methods of management therein detailed be adopted, I 

 believe they will be found to be as good as any, if not the best 

 yet recommended. 



COMB BASKETS. 



When removing surplus honey from the hives it is necessary 

 to have something to plane the frames or sections in, both for 

 convenience of carrying and to keep the honey secure from the 

 bees until it is safe in the honey or extracting house. ... I find 

 tin comb-baskets, similar to the one shown below, answer 



Fig. 113.— COMB BASKET. 



the purpose admirably. They are light, strong, clean, and 

 handy. They should be made so that the frames will hang in 

 them the same as in a hive, and should have a space of at least 

 two inches below the bottoms of the frames, to hold any honey 

 that may drip from the combs after they have been uncapped. 

 To hold six frames conveniently they should be 7£in. wide 

 inside. 



MARKETING HONEY. 



The first aim of the bee-keeper should be to produce a first- 

 class article, and the next, to place it upon the market in the 

 most suitable sized packages, prepared in a neat and attractive 

 manner. Until within the last few years, most of the honey 

 in well-got-up packages seen upon the Australasian markets 

 was of foreign production, the locally produced article having 



