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in which, if the honey is allowed to stand for twenty-four hours 

 after straining, it will be freed from air bubbles, and can then 

 be drawn into whatever bottle, jar, or tin will best suit the 

 local market. Best honey is usually put into lib. or Jib. 

 glass jars, with metal screw lids having a cork wad inside the lid. 

 To prevent any leakage the cork wad should be dipped in 

 melted wax and placed on the jar while still warm, the lid 

 being screwed down upon it. A neat label (of which a variety 

 are always obtainable from the appliance makers or of the 

 Secretaries of many of the County Bee-keepers' Associations) 

 will set off the honey jar and make it a desirable occupant of a 

 place in any retailer's shop. The darker honey is more suitable 

 for marketing in its granulated state ; when extracted and 

 strained it should be run into 141b. or 281b. tins, the contents 

 of these being stirred gently, now and again, while granu- 

 lating; the stirring tends to produce a more even and finer 

 grained honey. It may also be run into wide-mouthed glass 

 or earthenware jars, covered down with parchment paper, and 

 stored in a cool, dry place. Dark and coarse flavoured varieties 

 can be sold for manufacturing and confectionery uses, also 

 for that now almost forgotten purpose, the making of mead. 



T. J. Weston. 



SOIL INOCULATION IN THE UNITED STATES. 



The investigations into the subject of soil inoculation in the 

 United States by Dr. George T. Moore, of the Department of 

 Agriculture, were referred to in the previous number of this 

 Journal (February, 1905, p. 671), and an account was given of 

 the method of preparing the inoculating material. The Board 

 have now received from the United States Department a 

 bulletin* on soil inoculation, containing the reports on the use 

 of these artificial cultures by practical farmers. 



The bulletin opens with a brief historical sketch of the work 

 that has been done in investigating the question of the fixation 

 of nitrogen by the root nodules of leguminous plants and of 

 the experiments which led up to the preparation of " nitragin " 



* Soil Inoculation for Legumes, United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau 

 of Plant Industry, Bulletin No. 71. 



