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THE BEE-KEEPER'S REVIEW 



and crated it for shipment. 3,000 

 pounds were extracted and put into cans 

 in 0776 day. 



Each nig-ht a dray came out and took 

 a load of honey to town, and stored it 

 near the depot, ready to ship as cus- 

 tomers were found who wanted it. 



The extractor had just nicely started 

 the morning of the 14th, when 1 had to 

 hustle to catch the 10:06 a, m. train for 

 Ashley, 1 1 miles further on, to finish 

 harvesting- the crop of comb honey, and 

 do what extracting there was to do there, 

 leaving the "boys" to do the work at the 

 Perrinton yard, and what 1 tell you here 

 is as the boys told me. 



It might be well to state here that 

 during the evening of the 13th and the 

 morning of the 14th, mentioned above, I 

 helped the boys ',get started,'" and here 

 the general plan of operation that will 

 be described later on, was formulated. 

 The arrangement of the honey house, 

 the process of freeing the honey of bees 

 and wheeling it to the extracting house, 

 in fact, the whole procedure from the 

 hive to the can was talked over, and the 

 best methods adopted, considering the 

 material we had to work with. 



IT COSTS SOME MORE TO PRODUCE HONEY 

 AWAY FROM HOWE. 



The distance between Remus and Per- 

 rinton by rail, is 67 miles, with two 

 changes of cars. The connections are so 

 poor that it takes about three-fourths of 

 a day to get to our destination. After 

 arriving at Perrinton, and making some 

 necessary purchases, these and some 

 freight that had been previously shipped, 

 were loaded upon a dray and taken to 

 the apiary, three-fourths of a mile out of 

 town. 



The dray had previously taken our 60- 

 pound cans out to this yard, so every- 

 thing was in readiness to begin the ex- 

 tracting, and nearly the whole day had 

 been consumed in doing what could have 

 been done in a few hours, had the bees 

 been near home, where a horse is kept 

 for this purpose. It costs some more to 

 produce honey away from home, in our 



out yards, than it does where the bees 

 are all in driving distance from home. 

 To offset this, one has the advantage 

 of having hi? bees in locations where the 

 flora is of a different kind, insuring a 

 flow from some source each year. 



It is a difficult thing to find an unoc- 

 cupied location, where there are good 

 locations for several yards near each 

 other. There are many locations where 

 a suitable place can be found for one, or. 

 perhaps, two yards of bees, then perhaps, 

 it would be necessary to go several miles 

 before another paying location can be 

 found. There are many "just ordinary" 

 locations, but the point I would make is, 

 it will pay well to go several miles and 

 establish yards at some distant place, 

 rather than accept and occupy those 

 "ordinary" locations, with no excuse for 

 using them, other than they are easy of 

 access. 



If one were producing both comb and 

 extracted honey in out yards it would be 

 well to produce the comb honey in the 

 yards nearest home, and the extracted 

 in those yards farthest away. The pro- 

 duction of comb honey needs much more 

 frequent visits than the production of 

 extracted. 



MUCH MORE WORK IN THE PRODUCTION OF 

 COMB HONEY, THAN IN EXTRACTED. 



Probably there is three times as much 

 work connected with the production of 

 comb honey, per yard, as there is in the 

 production of extracted honey. Much of 

 this extra work is shop-work, which can 

 be done out of season, or rainy days, or 

 at odd times, when one would not likely 

 be at an out yard. Then there is the 

 strenuous period during the last one-third 

 of the honey flow, and a week or so 

 thereafter, in the production of comb 

 honey, that needs one's care almost con- 

 stantly. How diff^erent in the produc- 

 tion of extracted honey; for, one knowing 

 his location well, then watching the 

 season, and the honey flow, and when 

 the honey season is two-thirds or three- 

 fourths over, at the best of one's judge- 



