288 Beekeeping 



is probably still with the producer of extracted-honey, so 

 far as financial return is concerned. In some localities 

 extracted-honey does not sell as readily as comb-honey. 

 In extracting honey and in heating it later to bottle it, 

 some of the deUcate aroma is lost but this usually is not 

 sufficient materially to reduce the value of the honey as a 

 delicacy. 



Extracted-honey hives. 



A hive at least as large as the 10-frame Langstroth should 

 be used, for smaller hives do not provide sufficient room for 

 the activities of a colony headed by a vigorous queen and 

 large colonies are far more profitable than small ones. When 

 a honey-flow begins, the hive should be ready with an extra 

 hive-body containing frames of the same size as the brood- 

 chamber already on top. The extra hive-bodies or supers 

 may be given one after the other as the increase in surplus 

 honey indicates, the empty super being usually put next 

 to the hive containing the brood. If the beekeeper believes 

 the local conditions warrant it he may give several hive- 

 bodies at once. It is quite usual to space the frames in the 

 supers farther apart than in the brood-chamber, giving 

 eight frames equally spaced in a 10-frame body. This 

 makes less combs to handle for a given amount of honey, 

 and if the comb is cut deep in uncapping, more wax is ob- 

 tained. It also makes uncapping easier. 



Choice of storage combs. 



White honey stored in cells in which brood has been 

 reared is sometimes darkened slightly but most beekeepers 

 find it too much work to keep the combs for breeding en- 

 tirely separate from the storage combs. Colonies are also 

 sometimes stimulated in the spring by putting a few brood- 

 combs in the upper story to get the bees to go up promptly. 

 This is especially valuable in swarm prevention. Usually 

 the queen is allowed to go where she will in the hive to de- 

 posit eggs. 



