Several years ago I received some honey in sixty-pound cans that was nearly as hard as sugar. It was melted and put in half-pound bottles. To keep it from candying again before I could dispose of it, the bottles were placed on a shelf over the kitchen stove, where the temperature would rise to 110 degrees during the day and would not go below 60 degrees at night. This same lot of honey stood zero weather for two winters without going back. The above is the entire process. It is heat for a long time that does the business. Honey in large cans would need to be kept in a high temperature at least a month, but the process will surely prevent it from candying after it is once liquified. Arrange the details of heating to suit your conditions. Large quantities of honey can be kept in a room well up from the floor, and a good hot fire running for a long time. Steam heat, if convenient to use, is the proper thing. Small quantities of honey can be treated about as mentioned in my own case. TO THE READER If the methods herein given for rearing queens is not made clear I shall be glad at any time to give personal explanation. Later on I may issue a “supplement” in which many of the parts of my system of queen-rearing will be illustrated and more minutely explained. Send in the questions and they shall receive attention. THE QUEEN-REARING OUTFIT There are certain necessary things used in queen-rearing which I can supply at the prices given opposite each article named. The queen nursery, 35 cages, $1.50. The tin pipe for burning tobacco when introducing queens, 50 cents. Small hive, four frames, nailed ready for use, including cone-feeder, 50 cents. Small hive complete, including pint of bees, one best Adel breeding queen, $5.00. Same with select tested Adel queen, $4.00. All the above, and one of the latest improved queen-traps, sent for $9.00. These goods must go by express, as they are too large to go by mail. [Illustration: A successful swarm-catcher. Used in the Bay State Apiary with great success many years. It consists of a brood-box in front of the hive in connection with the queen-trap.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The A. I. Root Co. Medina, Ohio, Makes a Specialty of Manufacturing Bee=keepers’ Supplies of All Kinds Bee=hives Frames Section Honey=boxes Shipping=cases Honey and Wax Extractors Bee=smokers Bee=comb Foundation Comb=Foundation Machines Comb=Foundation Fasteners Perforated Queen=Excluders In fact, a full line of everything required by bee-keepers. The superior excellence of these goods is such that they have a world-wide reputation, and dealers handling them generally say: Root’s Goods