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which the flow came very abruptly and free- 

 ly, where there were Hi uiitiuishi'd sections 

 per Cijlouy on to start with. The ll iw was 

 very free for a week or more, aud then uot 

 so free, yet fair to good, lasting ;">:$ day?. 

 Countiut; the surplus and winter stores, the 

 averau'e train was about .">'■,_, pDunds per day. 

 The extremes of yield wcro "_'.'> pounds for the 

 loi\e-«taud '250 pounds for the hiirhest colony. 

 Add to this the winter stores, and the averawre 

 daily gain for the best colon\' was about '^% 

 pounds. In lSi)l the yieUl was about 100 

 pounds per colony, with prohnblij about :5'.i 

 pounds the averatje per d ly. In 18!);> there 

 was a fair yield; it came rather abruptly, 

 but not of very long duration. The years 

 18;Kt. 1895 and 18i)(3, have been previonsly 

 given. 



Now there was one thing that was plain 

 in th ise years : Invarialily the comb-honey 

 colonies wintered better. Tiie best year of 

 the seven — 181(0— the best yield from any 

 one colony was a comb-honey colony, though 

 I must admit that the best colonies were run 

 for comb honey. Some pretty fair colonies 

 were run for extracted, and, on the 2 to 1 

 plan, should have shown as much as the 

 comb-honey colonies. The two years of 

 18S4 and IsOo I did take more extracted per 

 colony than comb, but the following springs 

 I fount how I got it, when the bees 

 of this lot were starving to death, 

 while the comb-honey lot were well suppli- 

 ed with stores. In 18'.m;, I watched the mat- 

 ter carefully, and when I left my extracted 

 colonies with stores eqnal to the comb-hou- 

 ey colonies, I got no more from the one than 

 from the other. Taking the seven years 

 throughout. I am now throughly convinced 

 that I shoild have been better off had I tak- 

 en less from those run for extracted honey. 

 I would have had more bees alive in the 

 spring, and better co'ouies when the flow 

 came. 



There are two evils in the use of the ex- 

 tractor. The first is a disposition to take 

 unripe honey. The second is to take too 

 much. As before shown, there is a stroTig 

 disposition on the part of strong colonies, 

 having a lot of empty combs above, to put 

 the honey there, and when once there we 

 are prone to extract it. thus leaving the col- 

 ony short of stores. With nie this is no the- 

 ory, it is a fact proven by experience. 



Now if your flow is in the fall, or when 

 the weather is too cool for comb-building, 

 it is evident you can tret more extracted than 

 comb. If you keep weak cnlonies the ratio 

 will be still more marked. But with strong 

 colonies and comb-bnildinir weather, the 

 differe ce is by no means L'reat. Never for- 

 eet to count the contents of the brood-cham- 

 ber when estimating the work of a colony. 



There is one other point often forgotten: 

 A normal colony will have a surplus of wax 

 that goes to waste when run for extracted 

 honey. I do not believe we lose 20 or more 

 pounds of hr)npy when the colony builds 

 comb. The bulk of wax n-fd in the sections 

 would be secreted if the colony were run for 

 extracted, just the same. 



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