THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



tions, foundation and shipping cases. It 

 calls for more work, especially that of a 

 skilled order; consequently, not so many 

 bees can be kept. Swarming is more 

 difficult to control. 



When there is a poor season, or 

 interrupted honey flows, not much first- 

 class honey will be secured. 



If the crop is abundant all over the 

 country, and prices are low, it is scarcely 

 practical to hold comb honey over for a 

 raise in prices. 



Comb honey is very fragile, and there 

 is great danger of breakage in shipment; 

 particularly so in cold weather. 



Not so many pounds, per colony, of 

 comb honey can be secured. 



The production of extracted honey 

 calls for less labor, and much of this can 

 be of the unskilled order. Swarming is 

 very easily controlled. These two factors 

 allow of the managing of a larger num- 

 ber of colonies. Fewer visits to the 

 apiary are necessary; as super room may 

 be given in advance of the needs of the 

 bees, as it is quantity that we are after, 

 not appearance. Quality may be se- 

 cured by giving the bees time to ripen 

 their product. 



Even in a poor season, we may secure 

 a fair crop— certainly every pound that 

 is gathered. If the crop is abundant, and 

 prices low, the crop may be held in- 

 definitely, for better prices. 



Once an extracted honey apiary is 

 equipped with surplus combs, supers, and 

 other appliances, there is no more ex- 

 pense, except that for honey cans, or 

 barrels, in which to store the honey; and, 

 as soon as the honey is extracted, if it 

 may run directly into these receptacles, 

 when it is all ready for immediate ship- 

 ment. There is no sorting, nor cleaning 

 off of propolis, nor crating for shipment. 

 If good packages are used, there is 

 practically no danger of loss in shipping 

 extracted honey any distance at any 

 time of the year. 



In producing extracted honey there is 

 much heavy lifting and hard work that 

 must be done in hot weather, or in a hot 

 room, that the honey may be thin enough 



tc leave the combs readily, and pass 

 through the strainer. 



If a light colored flow of honey is im- 

 mediately followed by a dark flow, as 

 that of buckwheat, it is impossible to 

 keep the two kinds separate, and have 

 all of the honey well-ripened. The last 

 gathered of the white honey must be 

 left in the combs to go in with the dark 

 honey, otherwise it would be unripe 

 when extracted. 



Extracted honey brings a lower price, 

 and is not so salable, especially early in 

 the season. 



The colonies worked for extracted 

 honey are almost certain to be short of 

 stores in the fall, thus calling for the 

 expense and labor of feeding. 



One of the greatest objections to the 

 production of extracted honey is the in- 

 creased difficulty in combating foul 

 brood as it appears in the apiary. 



COMBINING THE PRODUCTION OF THE TWO 

 KINDS OF HONEY. 



As a rule, there is less complication, 

 and more profit, in producing only one 

 kind of honey, but the man who pro- 

 duces both kinds is often able to thereby 

 make sales earlier in the season, which 

 is sometimes quite a help to the man 

 without a bank account. 



I have also found one advantage in 

 producing both kinds of honey in the 

 same apiary, and that is this: We often 

 find a colony here and there which is 

 very backward about beginning work in 

 the comb honey supers, or is a very slow 

 or poor comb builder. Such colonies 

 will often do excellent work if given 

 extracted honey supers. 



THE writer's PREFERENCE. 



I am still producing both comb and 

 extracted honey, and may continue to do 

 so; but, if I were to drop either, it would 

 be comb honey. 



I can keep more bees with less labor, 

 and much of that unskilled, in producing 

 extracted honey. 



Flint, Mich.. Dec. 14, 1910. 



