EXTRACTOR. 



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EXTRACTOR. 



trance will prevent the guards from flying 

 out and attacking while the honey is being 

 removed. These hundred supers, six or 

 eight at a time, can then be taken to the ex- 

 tracting-house. on the hand-cart, with never 

 a robber in sight, even during the robbing 

 season: and if the extracting-house is as 

 tight as it surely ought to be. the extracting 

 can h^e done at any time with ease and pleas- 

 ure. But at out-yards it is sometimes im- 

 practicable to use escapes unless two trips 

 are made — one to put on them and the other 

 to take off the honey. Some apiarists think 

 the extra trip more than offsets the incon- ' 

 veniences of the brushiug and shakins of i 

 the combs. i 



UXCAPFIX€r<;AXS. 



In dry climates the combs may be taken 

 out of the hive when they are half capped 

 over : but it is a much safer rule to wait till 

 the cells are pretty well covered before at- 





DADAJfT S TTSCXSYtHG-CKSi. 



tempting to extraet. The h«j€y wiD be 



thicker and richer, will sell letter, and the 

 prc>duct will always \<^ in demand frr-m that 

 time on- 



The outfit shown in the next column is 

 something like an ordinary extractor-can- 

 <mly it is made in two pieces — the 

 upper one dipping into the otber. A 

 wtre<-loth partition, as ^own in tiie cat, 



catches the caps as they fall, and the honey 

 drips down, to be drawn off through the gate. 

 The very finest of the honey will come from 

 this uncapping-can. as it has all been ripened 

 and sealed. A wooden cross-arm extends 

 across the top on one side. A 5?raping-stick 

 to clean the knife onj extends at right an- 

 gles, and is at a convenient height. Cen- 

 trally through the intersecting piece at one 

 end passes a screw which may be lowered 

 or rai-sed and the end of which is sharp- 

 ened to a point. On this point the frame to 

 be uncaijped is pivoted, .so that one side 

 or the other can be turned very readily for 

 the knife. The cappings. as they fall, easily 

 pass down between the two side arms. drox>- 

 ping on to the screen below. The honey- 

 knife can be readily 5CTai»ed on the wooden 

 scraping-stick in the manner shown in the 

 illustration, without dulling the edge. 



M'rSTTYBE'S UXCAFFIXG-BOX. 



The cut afcKjve shows the device used very 

 successfully by Mr. J. F. McIntjTe. one of 

 those extensive bee-keepers in California 

 who produce honey by the carload, and the 

 following is his description- taken from 

 Gleanings, page 770, VoL XYIIL: 



It i£ 3 feet wide, 3 deep, and <i1od^ outside, made of 



'i .'jtnberr dressed on Txrth side<^ The \jottaca is 2 

 :r. .^5 i'jwfiT in the middlfe than at the ades. and is 

 .; .-r^ ^tb tin *' v£-^r -. ^rfjxa leaking^. Eleven 

 P-v- 'rr of •■rood. '. ^5. are laid acrosrs the 



■."■Tiom aVxmt € — : to support the screia) 



which the ca^finn^ tsm on. This leaves rocon b^ow 

 the screen for the honey to run to one end, where it 

 pi-ji.^- o^ji -rjT'Uuii a tin pipe. Two pieces, %j&iCR 

 ::. :.'j'-5- i.:^ .'-i.r.'r'i on tbetopedge,oneon each side, tw 

 contract tLe top of the box to the same width that a 

 Langsrroth hire is long- inside. 



One piece. ^x3x:^4. y~ ftred acK^fe the top of the 

 boi abont Uinehei from one end. with an iron pivot 

 stacking up through it. VTi inches high to rest the 

 eomhs on. wiien uncapping- you set one end of the 

 ©omh on this pirot. tmcap one side, whirl rt aroimd. 

 and uncap the other side, and set the oymh in tt* 

 erid of the box. as ic the diagrani. When we have a 

 rUT-pIui of oomt»5 we often hang th^n in tbe other 

 eiid 'A lie tox. in the diagram. C is cappings. and 

 D the space lor the honey to ran oat. 



The bottom of the box is T inches frossx the flocw. 

 wMeii leaves room for the hcaiey to run into the 

 strainer arra»igeinent below. This makes the xap 

 of the box aJbcmt Si indies from the floor, which is 

 about the righr height for me to tmcap easfly. ,A 

 ^ ^shorter pfTStm might make the box a lixde ebaliow- 



