| Show STORING COMB HONEY how to keep it so that it will le ile det ter alian aheu taken arom the ilive in answer td the question how and where to store comb honey during winter G M doolittle Doolit tio gives the fol following lowin 11 advice and personal experience in gleanings in bee cal ture comb honey should always bo stored in a warm dry place during the fall an and d spring months at least when a great change of temperature is likely to take place but during the winter it may bo be kept in ft a dry basement room or cellar where no frost ever reaches provided you aro are on the lookout to take it out when the tile temperature on the outside rises much above that in tho basement otherwise the warm moist outside air coining in contact with the surface of t the he cold or cooler honey lioney will causo cause moisture to stand in drops on the combs when the honey will rapidly deteriorate if I 1 were trying to keep honey of any amount m which I 1 wished to preserve in form I 1 would not let the temi pera ture of the room ever go below 60 begs while from T 70 0 to 90 dogs would be better I 1 once kept some section honey foi fol three years and found it better at the end of the three years than it waa when taken from the hive this lioney was placed on a i shelf about four feet from the floor of the sitting room right back of a babo burner coal stove during tb the e iri tin utho tao a urd in it walle dry a s a j I 1 U xa 1 ing ine illo guminer er efio months nh s when w H n no an W was as kept in the stove the honey was carried I 1 to an upper chamber facing the south where the suno Bun made the room very warm in addition to the warmth coming from the kitchen stovepipe which ran through this chamber in this way the honey never saw a te temperature m pera ture of less than CO 00 begs while from 80 to begs was the rule much of theotime the time when I 1 cut this honey it was nearly jack war and for quality it was not surpassed by any I 1 ever tasted I 1 have often of ten thought that it might pay to use this plan on a whole crop of honey during 5 yeara years when the production exceeded the demand thus causin causing g low prices to prevail while whilo the very next year might be a poor one so that thus keeping it might double in price when combs of honey are to be given to th the e bees bets the cracking of the comb does no harm for the tile bees will fix it up lap during the next season so it cannot be told where the cracks were |
