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ping. It is advisable to make it a practice to always heat extracted 

 •honey before putting it on the market, as it prevents granulation 

 for a much longer time. The liquid honey is filled in quite warm, 

 and the cans are immediately and tightly closed. Nothing but first- 

 class honey should be put up for the market under any circum- 

 stances. If this policy is adhered to, a profitable trade can soon be 

 secured. 



EXTRACTED HONEY. 



All average yield per colony, well situated in a good locality, 

 should be at least 100 pounds of extracted honey. During favorable 

 seasons, and where the bees can be gotten into the best possible con- 

 dition for the honey flows, this can even be doubled, or better. This 

 is meant as an average per colony for an entire apiary. Some col- 

 onies, especially strong, may gather as much as four or five hundred 

 pounds of extracted honey in a single season, if rightly managed. 

 A sufficient supply of empty combs, given at the right time, so that 

 the bees will have all the room needed, will help much tward ac- 

 complishing this. At the 

 same time, there will be col- 

 onies in the same yard that 

 will not reach above the 

 hundred pound mark, if that 

 much, thereby bringing the 

 average for the entire apiary 

 down to one hundred 

 pounds, more or less, ac- 

 cording to the season. 



Two styles of supers are 

 in general use for extracted 

 honey production, and for a 

 long time it was customary 

 to use the same deep hives 

 for supers as for the main 

 hive body or brood cham- 

 ber below. In more recent 

 years, the shallower supers 

 have become very popular, 

 and their use for extracted ; 

 honey production, as well 

 as for comb honey, is on the 

 increase. The finished prod- 

 uct is removed from the 

 hives the same way as de- 

 scribed under "Taking Off 

 Honey," and stacked up in the honey house. 



The extractor should be of such size that the baskets will properly 

 take the frames in use. Those most commonly employed are the 

 ones with baskets, wide enough to take the regular deep Langstroth 

 frames, generally known as the No. 15 size; but, since these baskets 

 are too narrow to hold two of the shallow frames, 5% inches in 



Extracting honey. 



