242 BEE-KEEPING 



Comb Honey and Extracted Honey. In a modern 

 bee-hive, each comb is built by the bees in a movable 

 frame, so that the bee-keeper can remove the combs at 

 will. 



After the hive is well stored with honey, small frames, 

 or sections, are placed over the brood chamber of the 

 hive for the bees to fill with comb and honey. Honey in 

 the cells is called " comb honey." 



Sometimes the combs are removed from the hive as 

 fast as they are filled with honey, and placed in a ma- 

 chine called a " honey extractor." Here they are caused 

 to revolve so rapidly that the honey is thrown out of the 

 cells. It then appears as a thick liquid like syrup, and is 

 called " extracted honey." 



The combs are then replaced in the hive for the bees 

 to fill again with honey. Bees do not like to see empty 

 cells in their hive, and they will work very hard to fill 

 them. The extracting process, therefore, causes bees to 

 make more honey than they would if the honey were 

 left in the cells. 



Sources of Honey Although many kinds of flowers 

 yield some honey, the honey that bees store up in their 

 hives is mostly secured from a few kinds. White and 

 alsike clovers, alfalfa, basswood, raspberry, sourwood, 

 sweet clover, white sage, black mangrove, tulip or " pop- 

 lar " trees, buckwheat, and asters yield the greater part 

 of the honey on the market. Honey bees are able to 

 secure only a small part of the honey from flowers of the 

 red clover. 



Crops are not often grown on purpose for bees, as this 

 would not generally prove profitable. 



