GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Fig. 1. — Set up ready to extract with porcelain-lined kettle and washtub in foreground. 



to the sidir-g. 1 have 160 colonies in the 

 yard at present. The picture was taken 

 about Sept. 10, at the close of the buck- 

 wheat flow, after some of the supers had 

 been taken off. 



The third and fifth colonies in the second 

 row, beginning at the right, produced about 

 150 lbs. of clover and basswood honey each. 

 The fifth colony in the fourth row, begin- 

 ning at the right, Avith two supers on, is a 

 ten-frame hive which produced 100 lbs. of 

 clover and basswood comb honey in beeway 

 sections. I had a number of colonies in tlie 

 apiary that bore equally well. Most of the 

 colonies that ran for extracted honey aver- 

 aged about 25 lbs. per Aveek during the 

 clover and basswood flow. 



Cohoeton, N. Y. 



A LIGHT PORTABLE EXTRACTING OUTFIT 



BY H. D. MURRY 



Some beekeepers hesitate to start out- 

 yards because of the expense of maintaining 

 a separate extracting outfit at each yard, or 

 because of the trouble of hauling the ordi- 

 nary outfit from one yard to another. To 

 such it may be interesting to know of a 

 light outfit tliat I use. The whole thing 

 does not weigh more than 150 pounds, yet 

 it is effective and convenient. 



Tlie extractor is a Cowan reversible, Xo. 

 18, with comb-baskets large enough to take 

 two frames each of the shalloAv frames we 

 use in the production of bulk comb honey. 

 These frames are 5% inches deej?. We use 

 them also for extracting; and. although the 

 extractor has only two comb-baskets, we 

 put in four combs at a time, making it equal 

 to an ordinary four-frame extractor. The 

 uncai^ping-can consists of two galvanized 

 iron tubs of such size that one will just 

 slijj doAvn about an inch in the top of the 

 other. We cut out the bottom of the upper 

 tub, leaving an inch or so all around, and 

 put in a bottom of galvanized Avire, abnuf 

 four meshes to the inch. A strip of board 

 three inches Avide which runs through the 

 liandles of the upper tub completes the un- 

 capping-can. Our uncapping-knife is a 

 Bingham of the "vintage" of 1897. It 

 has a much thinner blade than those turned 

 out noAv, and does much better Avork. We 

 do not use any Avater, either hot or cold, as 

 we do not need it Avith this knife. 



For the purpose of catching the honey 

 from the extractor, Ave use a galvanized iron 

 can 12 inches in diameter and 121/4 inches 

 deep. We tie a cheese-cloth over the can 

 and set it under the gate of the extractor. 

 When full it holds a little over five gallons. 

 There is a molasses-gate near the bottom of 

 the can. 



