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the arrangement of honey-house and tanks given in Chap. VIL., 
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 place 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 
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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 Jeast 
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 73in. 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 
