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EXTRACTED HONEY 
actually sours, irreparably damaging fu¬ 
ture sales and injuring the reputation of 
the producer. Unless honey is coming in 
so fast that there is not a reserve of combs 
to take care of it, it is penny wise and 
pound foolish to extract unripe honey. It 
is not possible to produce an extracted 
honey that will have all the delicate aroma 
that it possessed before being removed 
from the comb, and every extracted-honey 
producer, therefore, should err on the safe 
side by letting the bees do their part fully. 
In 1870 A. I. Root extracted over three 
do so, also leaving a thin watery part? 
which, if it does not sour, acquires in time a 
disagreeable brackish flavor. Unripe honey 
will often show the peculiar quality of 
pushing the bungs out of barrels, corks 
out of bottles, and it may actually burst 
cans, to the disgust of every one who has 
anything to do with it. 
Now honey, even that which is fully 
capped over, often has a peculiar odor and 
taste. Sometimes, where there is a great 
amount of goldenrod a disagreeable smell 
is noticeable in the apiary while the gold- 
Unripe honey. Fermentation and consequent expansion caused the honey to leak out around the screw-caps 
tons of honey from an apiary of less than 
fifty colonies. During the fore part of the 
season it had been allowed to become cap¬ 
ped over; but during the basswood bloom, 
when the bees were fairly crazy in their 
eagerness to bring in the nectar, some of it 
was extracted that was little better than 
sweetened water. This granulated when the 
weather became cold, and nearly all of it 
had to be sold at a loss. Almost all honey 
will granulate; but an unripe honey will 
enrod honey is ripening. In a few weeks, 
however, all this passes away and the honey 
shows nothing of the former disagreeable 
odor or flavor. In certain localities where 
onion seeds are raised for market, the 
honey, when first gathered, has so strong 
a flavor of onions that it cannot be used. 
Later on, however, much of the disagree¬ 
able quality disappears. 
Even basswood honey, when first gath¬ 
ered, ig sq strong, and has such a pro- 
