HONEYBEES AND HONEY PEODUCTION. 27 



Table VIII. — Honey: Form in which produced — Continued. 





Form produced. 



State. 



Comb in 



sections. 



Extracted. 



Bulk comb, or 

 "chunk." 





1914 



1915 



1916 



1917 



1914 



1915 



1916 



1917 



1914 



1915 



1916 



1917 



New Mexico 



P.ct. 



31 



6 



17 



P.ct. 



10 

 15 



P.ct. 



42 

 



30 



39 

 37 



17 



P.ct. 

 35 



5 

 10 

 20 



40 

 25 

 60 

 15 



P.ct. 

 61 

 94 

 83 



P.ct. 



90 



85 



P.ct. 



40 



100 



70 



58 

 59 



81 



P.ct. 

 47 

 95 

 90 

 80 



60 

 72 

 31 

 82 



P.ct. 

 8 

 







P.ct. 





 



P.ct. 

 18 

 







3 



4 



2 



P.ct. 



18 



Arizona 







Utah 







Nevada 







Tda.Tio 



47 

 46 

 64 

 18 



60 

 32 



48 

 17 



51 

 64 

 34 

 79 



37 

 68 

 52 

 82 



2 



2 



3 



3 

 

 



1 







Wq-tihingtori. , . ... 



3 



Oregon 



9 



California 



3 







United States 



41.7 



40.0 



38.1 



37.9 



42.1 



41.0 



43.8 



48.4 



16.2 



19.0 



18.1 



13.7 



FORM OF HONEY PRODUCED. 



Honey is produced in three principal forms: First, comb- 

 honey in 1 -pound sections, as commonly retailed; second, 

 extracted or liquid honey, ordinarily removed from the comb 

 by means of a centrifugal machine, although sometimes by 

 crushing the comb and draining, or by pressing it, although 

 this last procedure is likely to produce an inferior product; 

 third, "bulk" or "chunk" honey, the comb honey more or 

 less broken and mixed with the liquid honey. A pleasing 

 form of "chunk" honey is that prepared in large quantities 

 in Texas and some other States, choice comb being cut from 

 the frames, packed in tin pails or glass jars and the remaining 

 space in the container filled with extracted honey from the 

 same source. 



According to the reports to the bureau, which are shown in 

 detail by States and for the four years, 1914 to 191 7, inclusive, 

 in Table VIII, the proportion of comb and "chunk" honey 

 shows a tendency to decrease, and of extracted to increase, 

 the change from "chunk" and to extracted being par- 

 ticularly noticeable in 1917, reflecting an endeavor on the 

 part of the producers to increase the production of honey in 

 view of the threatened sugar shortage. Bees are ordinarily 



