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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



791 



it. In Figs. 2, 4, 5, the 

 proper place for a smo- 

 ker will be seen. In 

 this position it is ready 

 to use almost instant- 

 ly, and it goes along 

 with the operator when 

 he moves about the 

 hive or walks a few 

 steps away to any oth- 

 er hive, for he soon 

 learns to walk about 

 with his smoker be- 

 tween his legs. If a 

 bee-keeper should come 

 to me and ask me for a 

 job of taking off honey 

 and I noticed that his 

 overalls were all smok- 

 ed and scorched be- 

 tween ihe knees I 

 would say "yes" with- 

 out asking him a sin- 

 gle question, 



ADVANTAGES IN GET- 

 TING A LOT OF HONEY 

 TO THE HONEY-HOUSE 

 AND STACKED UP BE- 

 FORE BEGINNING TO 

 EXTRACT IT. 



We notice that all 

 the bee-keepers who 

 come around our work 

 seem surprised that we 

 take ofif all the honey and all the supers 

 from a hive when we go to extract it, and 

 leave it that way until we get back with the 

 supers full of empty combs. It seems to be 



Fig. 9.— Throwing back the canvas to load another super on the 

 wheelbarrow. 



new to them. Now, if the method is new 



to most bee-keepers I wish to say that it is 



worth getting acquainted with. To go out 



into a yard and take off all the honey in it, 



then extract it all, and 



finally put back all the 



combs in the supers they 



are to stay in, so greatly 



systematizes the work 



that the effect will please 



any one. A smaller crew 



can handle more honey, 



do it better, and with 



less robbing. 



We have tried several 

 ways of getting the hon- 

 ey to the house, and I 

 believe that the com- 

 mon flat wheelbarrow is 

 the best, except in times 

 of the worst robbing, 

 when each super should 

 be carried in as it is tak- 

 en off. If the supers are 

 carried any distance they 

 should be held with the 

 end against the body, as 

 shown in Fig. 8. Notice 

 that the left hand is in 

 such a position that the 

 fingers can hold the 

 combs from pounding 

 against each other as 

 they are carried. If the 

 combs are allowed to 

 pound or mash one an- 

 other as they are being 



-Bound for the honey-house with a load of (our full-depth supers 

 and two shallow-frame supers. 



