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Beekeeping 
is probably still with the producer of extracted-honey, so 
far as financial return is concerned. In some localities 
extracted-honey does not sell as readily as comb-honey. 
In extracting honey and in heating it later to bottle it, 
some of the delicate aroma is lost but this usually is not 
sufficient materially to reduce the value of the honey as a 
delicacy. 
Extracted-honey hives. 
A hive at least as large as the 10-frame Langstroth should 
be used, for smaller hives do not provide sufficient room for 
the activities of a colony headed by a vigorous queen and 
large colonies are far more profitable than small ones. When 
a honey-flow begins, the hive should be ready with an extra 
hive-body containing frames of the same size as the brood- 
chamber already on top. The extra hive-bodies or supers 
may be given one after the other as the increase in surplus 
honey indicates, the empty super being usually put next 
to the hive containing the brood. If the beekeeper believes 
the local conditions warrant it he may give several hive- 
bodies at once. It is quite usual to space the frames in the 
supers farther apart than in the brood-chamber, giving 
eight frames equally spaced in a 10-frame body. This 
makes less combs to handle for a given amount of honey, 
and if the comb is cut deep in uncapping, more wax is ob¬ 
tained. It also makes uncapping easier. 
Choice of storage combs. 
White honey stored in cells in which brood has been 
reared is sometimes darkened slightly but most beekeepers 
find it too much work to keep the combs for breeding en¬ 
tirely separate from the storage combs. Colonies are also 
sometimes stimulated in the spring by putting a few brood- 
combs in the upper story to get the bees to go up promptly. 
This is especially valuable in swarm prevention. Usually 
the queen is allowed to go where she will in the hive to de¬ 
posit eggs. 
