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in producing extracted honey. A honey house becomes 

 a necessity, even when the apiary is very small, though of 

 course if one has only a half-dozen colonies or so, a 

 small room may be used in lieu of a house specially built 

 for the business, particularly when comb or section honey 

 is produced. 



Extracted honey production needs a larger equipment 

 of tools and appliances than does comb, and needs more 

 care and labor in getting it into proper shape for market. 

 So far as the handling of the product is concerned, there 

 is more labor in the extracted, but in the preliminary work 

 or management of the bees, the comb takes both greater 

 skill as an apiarist and more labor. 



Our attention in the future should be given more to 

 the practical management of bees, to reduce the labor 

 and expense to the minimum. The more the work is 

 simplified, the more we shall feel we are advancing. Bet- 

 ter results are obtained from working for both comb and 

 extracted honey, and it will be observed that there is a 

 steady demand for each kind. 



