A MONTHLY JOURNAL 



Devoted to the Interests of Honey Producers 

 f I.aO a fear 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Editor and Publisher. 



VOL. XXIII. 



FLINT. MICHIGAN, MAY 1, 1910. 



NO. 5 



The Profitable Production of Extracted Honey 

 Depends upon the Tools Used. 



E. D. TOWNSEND. 



n^HE tools we 

 T use, and the 

 system of using 

 them, determine, to 

 a great extent, the 

 amount of work 

 accomplished in the 

 harvesting of a 

 crop of extracted 

 honey. A never- 

 to-be-forgotten day in our early bee 

 keeping experience, was when a neigh- 

 bor helped extract, can, and weigh up, 

 in 60-pound cans, 1,600 pounds in one 

 day. For several years this stood for the 

 limit; two of us usually extracting twelve 

 or thirteen hundred pounds a day, on 

 the average. As our mind goes back 

 over these early days, we cannot help 

 thinkingthatthelittleaccomplished wasnot 

 so much on account of not knowing how 

 to do, as it was on account of not know- 

 ing what tools to use and how to use 

 them. 



In buying bees, some whole yards 

 have been acquired. In some cases they 

 have been worked where they were 

 purchased, for a season or two. We 



usually get what fixtures there are with 

 the bees, and these are often used in 

 connection with some we would have to 

 supply, to get along. Working bees for 

 extracted honey, with the tools found at 

 most bee yards is rather up-hill business. 

 i Especially, is it important that the 

 t extracting house be arranged to the 

 5 best advantage, so that everything is 

 handy to work with. In later years, 

 since we have had experience with many 

 different tools and conveniences, we are 

 convinced that the worst drawback we 

 had to contend with, was tools of too 

 small ca,pacity. It would be impossible 

 n this article to mention all of the dis- 

 carded tools we have been obliged to 

 work with; instead of this, the more up- 

 to-date implements, and our mode of 

 using them, will be described; mention- 

 ing the discarded tools only as a com- 

 parison, in describing the later kind. 



|"~| THE SECTIONAL HONEY HOUSE. 



In the production of honey in out-yards, 

 nothing has stood the test of years like 

 the sectional honey house. This has 

 been described several times. The house 

 is very plain; just a bee- tight wooden 



