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honey the same frames are used over and 

 over again and the bees are saved the la- 

 bor of building new comb each time. Con- 

 sequently any colony might be expected 

 to return a much larger yield of extracted 

 than of comb honey. 



In recent years the tendency has been 

 more and more to the production of the 

 extracted form and as a result comb honey 

 has been scarce and expensive. The high 

 price has resulted in the return of many 

 beekeepers to the production of comb. 



The comb honey super is made to fit 

 neatly on top of the hive body, or brood 

 chamber as it is called now. Its interior 

 fittings will vary considerably owing to 

 a rather extensive variety of sizes in 

 which the sections are made. Each section 

 consists of a strip of perfectly white wood, 

 (usually basswood) folded into a rectan- 

 gular form and joined together by a dove- 

 tailed joint. An average super will con- 

 tain about two dozen of these individual 

 honey boxes. 



