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put a small spout in one end to let the 

 honev run out. Han^j this trough in a 

 wooden frame having legs long enough 

 to bring the top of the trough to a con- 

 venient height for uncapping, leaving 

 the spout end a little lower than the 

 other end. From tinned wire cloth make 

 a screen to place in the cottom of the 

 trough, the full length, to keep an open 

 space under the cappings so that the hon- 

 ey can readily drain and run out. Now 

 make a sliding rack on which to rest the 

 comh while luicapping, and you are ready. 

 The length of the uncapping device will 

 depend on the size of the apiary. If there 

 is much extracting to do, by moving the 

 older cappings towards "one end thej' 

 inaj- be left long enough. Set a vessel 

 under the spout, and you will get some 

 nice honey from the cappings. I am sur- 

 prised to know that at least one large bee- 

 keeper in Wisconsin does not drain his 

 cappings at all, but places them outside 

 for his own and his neighbor's bees to 

 fight over. 



We want every thing neat and clean 

 about the extracting room. If visitors 

 happen in, we don't want them to see any 

 bees, flies, ants or any other dirt in the 

 honey — keep every thing clean. 



The hone}' should be left in the strain- 

 ing-tank, or some'other similar open-top 

 receptacle, for a few days, when it may be 

 drawn off into barrels, cans, or whatever 

 packages the bee-keeper intends placing 

 on the market. Then set away in a dn- 

 ware -house, and there is no fear that it 

 will deteriorate. Granulate, it will; but 

 people are getting to understand that, 

 and know how to handle it accordingly. 

 The houseliold use of extracted honey 

 should be encouraged by placing on the 

 market a strictly first-class article; and ex- 

 plaining the many ways in which it can 

 be used. At the same time, we should 

 try to keep up the price. There is no 

 reason why it should not be worth at 

 least two-thirds the price of fancy comb 

 honey. 



In writing on the production of ex- 

 tracted honey, I have omitted many de- 



tails; such, for instance, as my method of 

 getting the bees off the combs; in regard 

 to which I will say, whenever the condi- 

 tions are such that it is slow or unpleasant 

 work to brush them off I can use the 

 I'orter bee-escape, which I consider one 

 of the blessings, along with queen-ex- 

 cluding zinc, of the modern producer of 

 extracted honey. 



I have not written from the standpoint 

 of a man who runs many apiaries, and 

 sends a gang of hands from one to the 

 other to do the extracting, but from the 

 standpoint of an ordinary bee-keeper who 

 does most of the work himself. 



Browntown, Wis., Aug. 25, 1899. 



RODUCTION AND TREAT- 

 MENT OF EXTRACTED HON- 

 EY. THE DISTANCE THAT 

 BEES FLY FOR NECTAR. 

 BY C. DAVENPORT. 



The Review for Jan- 

 uary was, to me, at least, a verj^ interest- 

 ing issue. Miss Pickard's article was so 

 much so that I believe a good many, like 

 Oliver Twist, will ask for more. For in- 

 stance, I would like to know if twostoriss 

 are allowed a strong colony for a brood- 

 nest during the main flow; and whether 

 more than one extracting super is used on 

 each colony. I infer that natural swarm- 

 ing is allowed; if so, I would like to know 

 what per cent, of the colonies swarm; also 

 how the swarms are treated; especially 

 whether they are hived on starters, full 

 sheets, or on drawn combs. 



And those barrels: I should like full 

 particulars in regard to them. I have 

 never been able to get barrels of either 

 hard or soft wood, no matter how well 

 made, seasoned, tightened, and waxed, 

 that would not leak more or less after 

 honey had been in them for .some time. 

 Two years ago last fall I had a large alco- 

 hol barrel, full to the brim of fine, white 

 honey, that got to leaking. It was stored 



