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Harvesting equipment and dressing

Steps for Harvesting Honey Extraction of Honey

1. Blow the smoke into the Extracting honey refers to the

hive through the entrance removing of honey from the

through the entrance to honey combs

drive away bees .

2. Lower the hive to the Methods of harvesting

ground. honey

3. Cut and remove combs from 1. Floating the wax method

the top to the bottom but 2. Pressing honey method

ensure that some combs

with honey remain in the 3. Centrifuging method of ex-

hive for bees to feed on be- traction of honey

fore they build new ones.