OUTFIT FOR EXTRACTED-HONEY PRODUCTION. 
CHAPTER ITI. 
In discussing the outfits for extracted-honey and for comb-honey pro- 
production, it should be understood that the same brood-chamber and its 
equipment (cover, floor and frames) can be adapted to the production of 
either kind of honey by simply changing the supers. 
The Hive to Use. 
The hive is the house and home of the bee. What kind of hive to use 
is a question that presents itself foremost to every beginner. There are 
a great many kinds and sizes of hives. Beekeepers’ literature for years has 
heen filled with discussions as to which is the best kind of hive to use under 
various conditions. There are large 
hives and small hives, patented hives 
and hives made out of dry-goods 
boxes, and hives constructed of bar- 
_rels or even of hollow logs. For- 
merly an old box or straw “skep” 
was used for a hive; and in those 
days beekeepers, when ready to har- 
vest their honey, would place the 
box or skep over a pit containing 
burning sulphur; and when the bees 
had been suffocated by the brim- 
stone fumes the hives were turned 
upside down and the combs of hon- 
ey dug out. The honey was then 
strained through a cloth; and if 
some of the combs may have con- 
tained unemerged young bees and 
pollen (a bee-food material which 
has a strong taste), this “strained” 
honey of the olden days was not of 
the best flavor. 
During the last 50 years a great 
change has taken place in the pro- 
duction of honey, and colonies of 
bees are no longer deprived of all 
their necessary food nor are the 
bees killed in the process of remov- 
ing the surplus honey. While a col- 
ony of bees may produce honey in 
a hollow tree or box, yet the mod-aase=7--~~"*: 
. « The several parts of a complete double- 
ern movable-frame hive (the inven- : walled hive, 
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