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all of the sections in one case are of one grade, and that that grade is the 

 one under which they are to be sold. 



Extracted honey may be removed from the hive when the cells in the 

 extracting frame are two-thirds capped over, because at this time the honey 

 will be sufficiently ripened to be removed from the hive. It formerly was a 

 custom to cut out the wax and squeeze it through a strainer of some sort, the 

 product being called "strained honey." Now, however, since the invention 

 of the honey extractor, the cappings are cut from the cells with a sharp knife, 

 and the frames are placed in the basket of the extractor and whirled rapidly, 

 the honey being thrown out of the cells by the action of centrifugal force. 

 The cappings which have been removed from the cells may be placed in a 

 wire basket and allowed' to drain, as considerable honey will be found to have 

 adhered to them, or they may be cut off directly into a capping melter, which 

 is so arranged that the cappings melt and pass out at the front of the melter, 

 together with the honey. The combination of melted honey and wax is 

 caught in a container and allowed to remain until cool, when it will be found 

 that the wax has risen to the top and the honey may be drawn off and sold. 



Extracted honey appears on the market in various-sized containers, from 

 the small-sized glass jar to the 60-pound can. The beekeeper will have to 

 decide for "himself which size he will use, and this will depend upon the 

 market to which he caters. 



COMB HONEY. 



Frank Hill, Sabetha. 



My first attempt at honey production was a try for coinb honey. In fact, 

 I did not know that there was such a thing as extracted honey. I had seen 

 but few bees, just scattered httle apiaries of a few colonies each, and all that 

 the owners of them attempted was the getting of a little comb honey. The 

 first colony of bees I owned was a swarm that lit on a peach tree in our 

 yard, and I furnished a hive and a neighbor hived them for me. I had been- 

 interested in bees before, and the fact that I was riow owner of a colony 

 renewed that interest. I began to get literature on the subject, and most of 

 it came from A. I. Root Company. The Root company at that time was 

 booming the Danzenbaker hive for the production of comb honey, and after 

 that first colony my bees were housed in the Dan-;enbaker hive, which, by 

 the way, seems to be obsolete now. You see that comb honey was my idea. 



In the literature which I read I found that the big men of the bee business 

 were writing on how to produce comb honey. The idea was to produce fine, 

 fancy comb honey. The idea got hold of me that it required, a good bee 

 man with knowledge of the business to produce a fine article of comb honey. 

 I had, of course, found out by. this time that there was such a thing as ex- 

 tracted honey, but it did not appeal to me in the least. I therefore went in 

 for comb honey, and did my best, as I have done every year since, to produce 

 just as fine and fancy a crop of comb honey as I possibly could. Some years 

 I have not produced a single section, but that has been the fault of the 

 season more than my fault. 



