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apiarists to produce extracted honey, as it is very doubtful if 

 comb honey in one pound boxes could be shipped with safety. 



Comb honey can be produced for home consumption, but 

 beginners will find it much easier to produce extracted honey. 



The production of extracted honey is not only easier for the 

 bee-keeper, but is much less work for the bees, than is the rais- 

 ing of honey in one pound sections. 



In making the extracted honey the comb is used over and 

 over again by the bees instead of their having to build new ones 

 each time, as is the case in making the pound sections. When 

 the comb in the supers is filled with honey and well capped it is 

 taken to the extracting house, uncapped, and the honey removed 

 by the extractor. The empty comb is then given back to the 

 bees for them to re-fill with honey, thus saving bees the labor of 

 producing new wax. 



It is much easier to control the bees when extracted honey 

 is raised, as there is less tendency on theirpartto swarm. Honey 

 is raised in larger frames and the bees are not forced to so great 

 an extent as in the production of comb honey made in small sec- 

 tions. Bees will not start to fill the one pound sections until 

 they have filled every available cell in the brood chamber. This 

 cramping of the brood starts the Swarming fever; if they are 

 not watched very Httle honey is produced in the section boxes 

 and a swarm comes off, lessening the working force of the hive. 

 This is not the case in the production of extracted honey, for, as 

 soon as there is a flow, supers are added, provided the colony is 

 strong and shows a tendency to store. 



It has been found that it takes from 10 to 20 pounds of honey 

 to produce a pound of wax under ordinary conditions, but when 

 shook swarming is practised, wax can be produced with a con- 

 siderable smaller amount of honey. When honey is worth from 4J 

 to 7 cents a pound it is more profitable to produce it than wax at 

 25 to 30 cents a pound. 



In countries where the bees gather honey dew, which is a 

 secretion given off by insects, it is more profitable to feed this 

 class of honey back to the bees and produce wax, but here we do 

 not have these conditions as all our honey is obtained from 

 flowers. 



Bee books, magazines, and circulars, are of great assistance 

 to the beginner and many valuable points may be obtained from 

 them, but the best teacher is actual experience in handling bees. 

 It is, therefore, advised that those who wish to take up bee 

 culture, commence in a very small way, with from one to four 

 hives, and study the ways and habits of these interesting little- 

 insects and learn to handle them intelligently before increasing 

 his stock. 



LOCATION OF APIARY. ' 



The apiary should be in a locality where there is an abun- 

 dance of bloom, and, if possible, near a good road so that the 

 honey may be easily shipped to mark et. After selecting a gen- 



