28 HONEY, AS FOOD AND MEDICINE. 
peat few years, many improved methods and appliances have 
-been invented for the increased production of honey, as well 
as to vastly enrich the quality of this product. Simultane- 
ously with these improvements, we lind the consequent 
increased consumption. Heretofore it was a luxury enjoyed 
only by a few—but now it takes its place among the staple 
articles for general use. Improvements in the management 
and culture, as well as increased production, have brought the 
price down to that which can be afforded by every family... 
Comps IIONEY. 
Not only have we forsaken the log-gums and rude straw 
‘and box hives of our fathers, and given these busy little 
workers a neater home with movable frames to contain their 
combs, but we have taught them to store their surplus comb 
honey in small sectional frames, so that it can be easily taken 
from the hives when full,and marketed in convenient shape, 
suited to the requirements of retail purchasers. 
EXTRACTED IIONEY. 
Considerable confusion has resulted from consumers think- 
ing ‘‘ Extracted” and ‘‘Strained” IIoney the same thing. 
The former is obtained by the frames being uncapped and 
placed in a basket or frame holder, which, being attached 
to a single rod, is put into a large can and revolved—the 
centrifugal force throwing out the honey from the combs, 
which runs down the sides of the can and is drawn off and 
laced in pails, cans, jars, or some other desirable receptacle. 
extracted honey is the pure liquid—minnus the comb. 
* Strained honey ” is another thing—the result of inashing 
up combs, used in the breeding apartment of the hive, and 
containing bee-bread, dead bees, &c., and catching what 
passes through the cloth—that is strained honcy, and is quite 
different from the pure virgin-honey, which when extracted 
still has the flavor of the bloom from whence it came. 
The strained honey known to commerce is the adulterated 
—that which will not granulate. Consumers help to impose 
upon themselves by the false idea that pure honey will not 
granulate. They desire ungranuiated honey and conscience- 
less dealers will supply the demand. Alinost all pure honey 
will granulate late in the fall and winter. The granulated 
state is one evidence of purity. Much of the jar honey sold in 
the markets, and recommended not to granulate, is a very 
inferior article composed largely of glucose. 
Granulated honey can be reduced to its liquid state in a 
few moments by placing the jar in warm water. When thus 
liquefied it so remains for a time before again crystallizing. 
Consumers may be sure of obtaining a wholesome article by 
purchasing granulated honey and liquefying it. 
