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expect. The temperature may range anywhere from 70° 
to 90° in the shade, but if it continue too hot and dry for 
more than ten or fourteen days, the amount of honey 
brought in will decrease daily, unléss there happen to be a 
succession of heavy ground crops coming along, when, the 
earth being shaded, moisture is still retained. A shower 
once in a while is beneficial, but frequent rainfalls destroy 
all chance of a good honey flow, as such are accompanied 
by a lower temperature. Even with fair weather it some- 
times happens that the temperature rules too low for the 
secretion of nectar; but usually if none is stored during a 
fine season, it implies either that the district is poor in 
honey plants, or else that there are too many colonies in one 
place. 
Now, dear Reader, granted you have the most suitable 
hive, and the best bees for the purpose, and moreover have 
carefully studied how to secure your strong stocks, and then 
how to control their natural inclination to swarm, you are, I 
trust, fully prepared to gather in a very large proportion of 
that delicious sweet so abundant all around you. 
EXTRACTED HONEY 
is that which is removed from the combs by centrifugal 
force, without breaking them up; while the liquid is conse- 
quently clear, and of far superior quality to that which by 
old-fashioned methods was obtained by straining the whole 
mass of honey, pollen, and larvz, through a cloth. 
A common practice is that of removing the honey before 
the cells are capped over, and large weights of such “ green 
stuff” are often boasted of. Asa matter of fact, however, 
such honey never equals that left in the upper tiers or 
supers until thoroughly “ripened” by the natural heat and 
perfect ventilation of the hive. When the combs are at 
least two-thirds sealed they may be removed, and the 
