. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ner of the foundation. When the whole thing is dry, lift it off and hang it in the hive. When the little sections are full and sealed over, take frame and all to the gro- cer ; slip off the outside, and show him that he can separate the squares into long strips. With a sharp knife he can now cut them up into little cakes as wanted. If a customer wants two, four, six, or eight, let him have them all in a slice, to save handling so many loose pieces. The engravings were kindly furnished by Mr. Root from Gleanings, and this descrip- tion by Mr. Harmer is
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ner of the foundation. When the whole thing is dry, lift it off and hang it in the hive. When the little sections are full and sealed over, take frame and all to the gro- cer ; slip off the outside, and show him that he can separate the squares into long strips. With a sharp knife he can now cut them up into little cakes as wanted. If a customer wants two, four, six, or eight, let him have them all in a slice, to save handling so many loose pieces. The engravings were kindly furnished by Mr. Root from Gleanings, and this descrip- tion by Mr. Harmer is also from the same source. Getting small sections filled, never troubled me ; for I knew that bees would fill spaces with comb honey that are a little more than a quarter of an inch, so that^ with a good honey-flow, I was not afraid but that they would fill a 3-inch space. I would say just here, that I have had sec- tions well filled, only Ji' of an inch square, so that, in this particular, I was all right; and I have proved to my satisfaction, and, 1 think, to the satisfaction of the few bee- keepers who have called on me, that I have developed a practical system for making small sections out of shavings from a com- mon hand-plane, and will suit any size of sections for less than 1 pound of honey,vrith the proper mold or form for adjusting them. The reasons why 1 wanted them are, first, because I have seen comb honey cut in pieces, making it leak in every instance, often being a nuisance, daubing everything, causing considerable trouble, and making it diflicuit to give a customer, perhaps a boy or small child, a few cents' worth of comb honey; for every one has not 20 cents to spare to buy a whole section ; and if they had, they do not always want so mUch. 1 think there are very tew grocerymen who would cut a comb to suit such customers ; and there are thousands of children around us that do not know the taste of comb honey on this account. I also thought that well- to-do peo
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