172 A Modern Bee-Farm 



their many preparations. For printers' rollers it takes the place of 

 sugar, doing better work, and making a more durable article. 



The reader will thus see that honey is not simply an article of 

 luxury, nor of ordinary diet ; and instead of bee-keepers complain- 

 ing that there is little demand for their produce, let each endeavour 

 to find some new use for it ; and thus make an opening for the 

 consumption of honey by the ton, where otherwise it would never 

 have been thought of. 



A large firm of biscuit makers were induced to start a new 

 biscuit, sweetened with honey, and thereupon required two tons 

 of the bees' product weekly. Though we may not often find an 

 opening for it to this extent, there are many ways in which honey 

 is, and can be disposed of, other than for table use. 



