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dollars ; when I can just as well, and with much less 
trouble, have the same honey in combs in nice boxes, 
that every one will know is just what it purports to be, 
and which will sell readily for seventy dollars or more. 
In removing the combs for extraction, great care is re- 
quired, or the queen will be lost, the brood damaged, 
combs broken in handling, and robbing incited. It is an 
established fact in bee keeping, that if bees are frequent- 
ly disturbed in the honey season, they will work but 
little, but will remain idle about the hive, to protect 
themselves, rather than fly abroad to collect honey; and 
if this one point is admitted, it ought to be sufficient to 
drive the honey extractor out of use. 
I am aware that we have very large yields of extracted 
honey reported, but let us accept such reports with cau- 
tion, remembering that extracted honey is easily counter- 
feited, and dishonesty is abroad in the Jand. 
Now, if the objections which I offer to the use of the 
extractor are real (and I maintain that they are, together 
with many others not mentioned,) are they not sufficient 
to banish the extractor from the apiary of every one who 
wishes to keep bees for pleasure and profit. 
But to go a little farther and compare prices—for the 
past two or three years, extracted honey has sold for six, 
eight and ten cents per pound, rarely for twelve; and slow, 
hard sale all the way along; while comb honey in nice 
boxes (such as are used in the Controllable Hive) has 
sold readily for from twenty-five to thirty-five cents per 
pound, and frequently as high as forty cents. Some may 
