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All liives should be well ventilated, and should have large 

 entrance room. In removing the combs for extracting, the quick- 

 est method is to take them from the supers and shake the bulk 

 of the bees at the entrance and brush the balance off quickly 

 with a Coggshall or German bee brush as shown in the accom- 

 panying illustrations. Place them in another super on a wheel- 

 barrow or other vehicle and cover up bee-tight if there is any 

 danger of robbing. Do not 

 continue this work too long 

 at a time when robber bees 

 bother. At such times the 

 supers may be removed to 



good advantage with bee Fig. 67. Board containing 



escape boards. At times ^^ escape 



much of the work may be done during early morning or late 

 evening to evade robbers. As soon as a load is obtained, hurry it 

 into the extracting room or other safe place. 



Secure a good, modern, reversible honey extractor to remove the 

 honey from the combs, and if to be done in an extensive way, 

 it will pay to get a four, six or eight-frame, power-driven ex- 

 tractor. This outfit will keep two hands uncapping while one 

 does the extracting. For uncapping the combs, nothing surpasses 

 Hoot's steam uncapping knife. When properly manipulated this 

 is always in condition for slicing off cappings, and a capping 

 melter may be used to uncap in if desired. A very good and 

 cheap method of disposing of the cappings is by using a sugar 

 or cracker barrel with holes bored in the bottom, and secured 

 in a wash tub to catch the dripping honey, as recommended by 

 the late W. Z. Hutchinson. When most of the combs are sealed, 

 a nice lot of wax may be obtained from the cappings. The 

 combs in the supers should be spread somewhat, using eight or 

 nine in a ten-frame body so that the combs may remain of the 

 usual thickness after they are uncapped. 



The honey may be drawn from the extractor in pails and 

 emptied through suitable strainers into tanks, or where convenient, 

 carried by gravity, or pumped by a rotary pump driven by the 



