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brimstone, and when no arrangement for smoking has been made 
in the honey room, take a store box or flour barrel, and leaving 
a cavity at the lower end to receive the match, put in the boxes 
in such a manner that the smoke can enter them, and covet 
the top to confine the smoke. When separated from the combs 
by straining, honey is secure from the moth, its food being wax, 
and not honey. Strained honey may be kept from graining, by 
heating to the boiling point, (setting the vessel in boiling water, 
to prevent burning,) and keeping it in a dark room. Empty 
combs, unless the moth eggs have been destroyed by freezing, 
should be examined occasionally, and if traces of worms can 
be seen, smoke them also, being careful afterwards that millers 
do not get to them. 
WINTERING BEES. 
In regions where the ice garb of winter remains unbroken 
from fall till spring, the consumption of food may be lessened, 
and the safety of light stocks better secured by wintering them 
in dry cellars, or even in houses. But in this changeable climate, 
where the bees are frequently aroused to activity by summer 
weather in the middle of winter, and impelled to fly out to dis- 
charge their feces, it is not so necessary to guard against cold, as 
it is against the great consumption of honey in warm weather, 
or the filth and disease caused by confining the bees where they 
can be affected by changes of temperature in the atmosphere. 
Hence, unless a dark, dry cellar can be had, the mass of bee- 
keepers at least, will succeed best by properly preparing their 
stocks, and leaving them upon their summer stands. 
