A YEAH AMONG THE BEES. 
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bear transportation better, but they cost more per pound of 
honey and hardly present so good an appearance. 
KEEPING HONEY. 
I have sold a crop of honey before it was all off the hives, 
but latterly I have not generally sold the last of it till 
spring. It is not the easiest thing in the world to keep it 
through the winter in good shape. If kept cold it is apt to 
granulate or candy, as it is usually called. If allowed to 
freeze, the combs crack and look bad, and in time the honey 
Shipping Crate for two tiers of Sections. 
oozes out of the cracks. Honey is deliquescent, absorbing 
from the atmosphere a large amount of water if conditions 
are favorable. Try putting some common salt in a place 
where you think of keeping honey : if the salt remains dry, 
so would honey. But a place that is suitable at one time 
may not be at another. One year I filled my smoke-room 
with honey. It was a good place for it ; the outside walls 
were thin and the heat of the sun made it a hot place. When 
cold weather came, however, it was a bad place, and the 
lower sections at the back part— beautiful, snowy-white, 
when first put in— became watery and dark-looking. A lire 
for cooking was kept in the adjoining room, and although 
there seemed but very little steam in the air, by the time it 
