HONEYBEES AND HONEY PRODUCTION. 27 
Table VIII. — Honey: Form in which produced — Continued. 
State. 
Form produced. 
Comb in sections. 
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 
Extracted. 
1914 
1916 
1917 
Bulk comb, or 
"ctiunk." 
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 
New Mexico. 
Arizona 
Utah 
Nevada 
Idabo 
Washington. 
Oregon 
California . . . 
United States . 
P.ct. 
31 
6 
17 
P.ct 
P.ct 
42 
0 
17 
P.ct. 
35 
5 
10 
20 
40 
25 
60 
15 
P.ct. 
61 
94 
83 
P.ct. 
P.ct. 
40 
100 
85 
37 
P.ct. 
47 
95 
90 
P.ct. 
8 
0 
0 
P.ct 
P.ct. 
18 
0 
40.0 
37.9 
41.0 
43. 
3 
0 
0 
1 
19.0 
18.1 
P.ct. 
18 
0 
0 
0 
0 
3 
9 
3 
13.7 
FORM OF HONEY PRODUCED. 
Honey is produced in three principal forms: First, comb- 
honey in 1-pound sections, as commonly retailed; second, 
extracted or liquid honey, ordinarily removed from the comb 
by means of a centrifugal machine, although sometimes by 
crushing the comb and draining, or by pressing it, although 
this last procedure is Hkely to produce an inferior product; 
third, ^^bulk" or chunk" honey, the comb honey more or 
less broken and mixed with the liquid honey. A pleasing 
form of chunk" honey is that prepared in large quantities 
in Texas and some other States, choice comb being cut from 
the frames, packed in tin pails or glass jars and the remaining 
space in the container filled with extracted honey from the 
same source. 
According to the reports to the bureau, which are shown in 
detail by States and for the four years, 1914 to 191 7, inclusive, 
in Table VIII, the proportion of comb and ^^chimk" honey 
shows a tendency to decrease, and of extracted to increase, 
the change from chunk" and to extracted being par- 
ticularly noticeable in 1917, reflecting an endeavor on the 
part of the producers to increase the production of honey in 
view of the threatened sugar shortage. Bees are ordinarily 
