HONEY PRODUCTION. 
on the hives; though we may have extracted as much as 
two thousand pounds in a day. 
There are seasons, in which a very slight continuation of 
the honey crop, permits returning the combs, as fast as 
they are extracted. In such seasons it causes no excite- 
ment, and is much more convenient. 
782. Within two or three days after extracting, the bees 
have cleaned the combs, and repaired them. But, to pre- 
vent the moths from injuring them, we keep them on 
the hives during the whole summer; the bees take care of 
-them, and in the Winter, we pile up the cases, carefully 
closed, in cold rooms, where the cold of Winter destroys 
the eggs of the moth (802). 
In localities, where there are two distinct crops of honey, 
each crop should be harvested separately. Thus, we al- 
ways extract the the June crop in July, and the Fall crop 
in September. 
Honey production, with the above methods, is go 
successful that the problem for practical Apiarists is no 
longer, how to produce large crops of honey, but how to 
sell it (839). Extracted honey can certainly be pro- 
duced, at less cost, than the cheapest of cane sugar, and it 
can be truly said, that in the last thirty years, there has 
been more progress in bee-culture, than in any other branch 
of rural economy. 
783. As the wax of the cappings amounts to a little 
more than one per cent. of the weight of the honey ex- 
tracted, and as these cappings after they are well drained, 
contain even a larger weight of honey fit to be converted 
into vinegar when separated from the cappings by washing, 
the expense of extracting is more than compensated. 
