1 Srpt., 1899.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 291 
PREPARING HONEY FOR MARKET. 
Tuts subject cannot be written about too much. In these times of closest 
competition, it behoves everyone to put up honey in as neat and attractive a 
manner as possible. When it comes to receptacles for extracted honey or cases 
for comb honey, only the very best must be used. It will not pay to try to 
save a few shillings in this, and run the risk of losing pounds when your honey 
reaches the market. The trade in various localities often varies in its require- 
ments as to style and size of package. Hence, it will be wise to first learn just 
what is demanded, and then comply therewith as near as possible. Endeavour 
to find out what the public want, and see that they are accommodated. Some 
people are whimsical; and yet if they are willing to pay for being so, no one 
need object. 
Another thing—and it has been spoken of so often—whatever you do, be 
sure to clean every section of honey of every particle of bee-glue, scraping 
them thoroughly, if necessary, in order to attain the object. Some agents 
object to the producer’s name being on each case or section, but we think none 
will care if only the name appears. We believe it would be a good idea for 
every beekeeper to put his name upon every section of honey that leaves his 
wpiary. This can be done easily and rapidly with a rubber stamp. Then the 
consumer can call for more of Mr. So-and-so’s honey, and a demand will thus be 
created. 
Other ideas will no doubt suggest themselves to every wideawake producer 
of honey who reads this. As in most other things, it will pay well to use 
brains in the preparation of honey for the market. N othing but an absolutely 
first-class article should ever be placed upon the market for this purpose.— 
Martin's Home and Farm. 
FIXING FOUNDATION INTO FRAMES. 
THe size of the brood chamber must be regulated to the size of the colony; in 
other words, there would not be more frames left in the hive than would keep 
the bees tolerably compact, and therefore in a better condition to winter well. 
In the spring-time all young queens will be coming into full vigour with 
their work of ovipositing ; and with eggs, brood, newly-gathered honey, and 
pollen in the cells, there will soon be insutticient room for the number of eggs the 
queen will deposit daily. 
There is not a better method of recombing than by lessening the size of 
the brood chamber in the autumn, and discarding old and badly-shaped combs, 
and then adding at the side, in the spring, new frames with full sheets of 
foundation, till the hive is again full of combs. In the following autumn the 
old combs, or part of them, will be removed, and thus in three years all the 
combs will be renewed. ‘The practice of renewing combs tends more than is 
often supposed to the quick increase of the stock and its general success. There 
are numerous instances in which the hives have not been recombed since the 
bees were first put in, years ago, and those stocks are among the moderate or 
bad ones of which complaint is made. 
At the present time, no person who desires quick and regular increase will 
neglect to use foundation, and never starters or little pieces for the sake of 
economy (?) in the place of full sheets. 
To find out how eagerly the bees accept sweet new foundation, place a 
fitted frame in the middle of the brood nest of a strong stock, when brood- 
Bleescne will not endanger the brood, and within twenty-four hours it will be 
umost a comb, and contain hundreds of eggs. The same eagerness to get on 
with work is not manifested if, instead of foundation, combs saved from the 
previous or other years are given. 1t is also much better to weed out the old 
combs, and thus get rid of those that have in them too many drone cells, or that 
are overburdened with pollen. 
