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he stated that they should be left more preferably two or three days 

 rather than five or six weeks. I thought if there was a few pennies 

 lying around loose in those combs I might as well be getting after them, 

 so I made an investigation with my combs, and left them, according 

 to the first article, for several weeks, but discovered that, on account 

 of the very cold September that we had, they were practically all 

 granulated. However, I extracted ^ome, as Dr. Miller had stated, 

 within a few days, and found the results were very satisfactory, at 

 least in my case. The ordinary Langstroth extracting frame produced 

 about four ounces of honey on the second extraction, and the ordinary 

 shallow extracting frame produced about two ounces of honey. This 

 interested me to the extent of investigating to find out what amount 

 of money could be made in the operation in regard to time. In checking 

 the time I found that a person with an ordinary two hand power revers- 

 ible extractor would make about five dollars an hour by the second 

 extracting, which I consider is very well worth while to most any 

 of us even at a busy time of the year, and it could mostly be left to a 

 time when you were not so busy. 



In regard to the frames which were granulated, I found by setting 

 half a dozen of them or so above a very low-turned gas flame that in a 

 very few minutes the granulation was all melted out again, and these 

 extracted to the full extent of the ones that had not been granulated. 



I was rather intere^ed to see the effect of such combs upon the 

 bees after they were put back in the himve, because of course it is 

 not all cleaned up entirely, and I found that the excitement of the 

 bees was seemingly very noticeably decreased by the combs which 

 had the second extracting over those which were extracted only once, 

 presumably because the honey lying around loose in the frames that 

 had been extracted only once was very much more exciting to the 

 bees. 



The Secretary. — May I ask what temperature the honey was 

 when you first extracted it? 



Mr. MacNeill. — Well, 4he most of what was extracted in 

 September I guess was at a fairly low temperature, because the whole 

 month was cold, but a great deal of it on the other hand was extracted 

 at the ordinary temperature, and in most cases was extracted immedi- 

 ately after taking out of the hive, so that there is no reason why it 

 should not have extracted as well in the ordinary case, when the or- 

 dinary job of extracting is done. 



The Secretary. — If the extracting was done at a temperature 

 of 90 to 95 degrees, do you think there would be enough honey left 

 to make a second extracting necessary? 



Mr. MacNeill. — I con't think so, but I don't like to extract at 

 90 or 95 degrees. If the temperature of the combs was that, I think 

 the result of the second extraction would be very much less. However, 

 with four ounces, I neglected to state at the price that honey brought 

 this year, that would be about eight cents per comb, for the ordinary 

 Langstroth frame, two cents an ounce, and four cents per comb for 

 the shallow frame, which certainly makes very quick returns, because 

 the second extracting of course is not nearly so tedious as the first. 



The Secretary. — You use a hand power machine both times? 



