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combs, when they contain honey, are placed, 

 and made to revolve so rapidly that the honey 

 is forced out of the comb by centrifugal action 

 and trickles down to the bottom of the ex- 

 tractor. Before bees begin to store honey in 

 the little boxes in the top of the hive, they 

 first fill up such parts of the large frames as are 

 not used by them for rearing young; and the 

 motion of the extractor is so regulated that the 

 eggs and young bees are not thrown out with 

 the honey. The comb having been emptied of 

 the honey, the frame is replaced in the hive, 

 and the bees, finding their stores gone and 

 fearing starvation, will go to work again with 

 the energy of despair. Some bee-keepers use 

 their bees entirely for producing this extracted 

 honey, and never make any box-honey, as the 

 honey in the comb is called. The sale of ex- 

 tracted honey, put up in bottles, is naturally 

 larger than that of box-honey, as it can be kept 

 in better order and for a longer time ; but its 

 price is less by several cents a pound, and the 

 temptation to adulterate it with sugar and 

 water has given it a bad reputation in some 

 communities. As yet no one has found a 



