A YEAH AMONG TUB BEES. 
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SCRAPING SECTIONS. 
When the sections are taken out they go directly to the 
scraper. Mrs. M. and Emma always do the scraping, and a 
first requisite seems to be to array themselves in the most 
hideous apparel. At least the outside garment must be of 
that description, for bee-glue flies in all directions when they 
are scraping, and a coating of bee-glue on a Sunday gown is 
no great improvement. A common case-knife with a straight 
blade is the tool used for scraping. A seat is used 0 or 8 
inches higher than a common chair. Generally a common 
wooden chair is set on a wooden hive-cover. A little box or 
block G or 8 inches in length and width, and perhaps 2 inches 
thick, is placed on the table, and the section put on this 
block to be scraped. All four sides of the sections are 
scraped clean of propolis, and the edges as well. It is not a 
difficult job for a careful band, but a very disagreeable one. 
The fine dust of the bee-glue is very unpleasant to breathe. 
A scraper should be a careful person, or in ten minutes time 
he will do more damage than his day’s work is worth. Even 
a careful person seems to need to spoil at least one section, 
before taking the care necessary to avoid injuring others. 
But when the knife makes an ugly gash in the face of a 
beautiful white section of honey, that settles it that care will 
be taken afterward. 
PACKING SECTIONS IN SHIPPING-CRATES. 
The scraper has in easy reach two shipping-crates. In one, 
all perfect sections are put as fast as scraped. In the other 
are put any which are a little off color, either as to comb or 
honey, or which have some cells unsealed. The most 
difficult thing about the packing is to prevent veneering. 
It seems to come so natural, when a particularly white and 
straight section goes into the crate, to put it next the glass, 
best side out at that. But it is especially desirable that the 
