STJEPLUS HONEY IN BOXES AND EXTEACTED. 



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and smoking them well with brimstone two or three times at interval i 

 of twelve or fifteen davs, using at the rate of a pound of sulphur for 

 every 250 to 300 cubic feet contained in the room or box. 



MAKEETING HONEY. 



Honey , like other products, must generally be sold in quantities to 

 wholesale men who distribute it according to the necessities of trade. 

 These wholesale merchants, can themselves repack extracted honey, yet 

 as they are apt to adulterate it, the bee-keeper himself should pack 

 in small parcels with from two to four dozen jars in a case, to suit the 

 trade, placing his own name and apiary on each jar and also labeling it 

 as to its source and quality. 



It is more important that comb honey should be packed to suit the 

 retail trade, because only bees can properly arrange and secure it. The 

 combs should be in small frames or boxes two inches wide and contain, 

 ing from one to three pounds. Glass may be added at the sides or not 

 according to the demands of the market. These boxes should be packed 

 in crates holding from two to four dozen according to size. 



HONEY CBATE. 



The crates should be made in the simplest way. The two ends should 

 be of seven-eighths of an inch boards, one-fourth inch longer and deeper 

 than the measurement of the boxes to be inserted. Two strips from 



