9G A YEAR AMONG THE BEES. 
got to the back end of the smoke-room, and settled to the 
lower part, there was enough to spoil hundreds of sections. 
You see, warm air is like sponge to take up moisture, and 
cold squeezes the moisture out of it. The point to see to, 
then, is to have no air coming from a warmer place to the 
place where the honey is. I would sooner risk honey in a 
kitchen with a hot lire and plenty of steam, than in a room 
without lire and with a door partly opened into a sitting 
room where no water or steam is ever kept. Indeed, a 
kitchen is quite a good place to keep honey. 
If comb honey became granulated or watery, I know of no 
way to restore it. If for home use, or if one happens to have 
a market where extracted honey sells for a good price, the 
sections may be put in stone crocks, slou ly melted, being sure 
it is not overheated, and then when cool, the cake of wax 
may be lifted off the honey. 
The best place to keep comb honey is also the best place 
to keep extracted ; but if extracted honey becomes granu- 
lated or watery, it may be restored to its former, or even a 
better condition. If thin and not granulated, by setting it on 
the reservoir of a cook-stove and letting it remain days 
enough, it will become thick. I suppose you may have 
known this, and also that extracted honey, when granulated 
may be liquefied by slowly heating, but did you know that 
when thin honey is warmed for a long time the flavor is 
improved ? I have had the flavor improved and could attri- 
bute it to nothing but remaining a couple of weeks on the 
reservoir. I do not mean by this that if line-flavored honey 
in good condition is placed on the stove reservoir it will be 
improved. Most people, however, who have had much to do 
with honey, must have noticed that when extracted honey 
becomes thin from attracting moisture from the atmosphere, 
it seems to acquire a different flavor,— perhaps I might say 
it has a sharp taste— and the slow heating seems to restore 
it partly if not wholly to its former condition. The same 
thing is true of honey which is taken thin from the hive, 
not yet having been brought to proper density by the bees. 
