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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Feb.;22, 1900. 



into partnership with him in the bee-business, and they workt them together under the name of Coggshall Bros., up to 



'° '"ll'^Sf hk* bro^thera'nd'^irsdf shTp\^^^^^ first full carload of honey to New York City, since when the product has 

 irirrea^t until the oast season's shipments aggregated about five carloads. .,,„„,. , i. 



Mr. Coggshall now manages his home Ipiary and six outlying yards, numbering about 600 colonies, run almost en- 

 tirely for extracted honey. 

 In the illustration is 

 shown the style of bee- 

 dress worn by Mr. C, which 

 has a wire-screen in front 

 of the face, fastened in the 

 veil, which is attacht to a 

 loose blouse gathered at 

 the waist by a rubber cord, 

 making it absolutely bee- 

 proof. 



There is also shown an 

 18-gallon honey-keg, 60 of 

 which were filled in this 

 yard in 1896 with well- 

 ripened honey. Lying on 

 the keg is a Crane smoker, 

 the kind preferred. Near 

 by is the wheelbarrow and 

 queen-excluders. Near the 

 center is the uncapping- 

 can, while in front are 

 some empty estracting- 

 combs in frames, of which 



he has some that have been 



in constant use from the 



first. 



The trees shown in the 



yard are Kieffer pears, 



which are well loaded, and 



onl3' 10 years old. 



The yard contains 



about 110 colonies, and is 



shown in September, after 



the extracting-stories were 



removed and stones put on 



the hives to hold the covers 



down. A part of the chaff 



hives in which the bees are 



wintered are also shown, 



and when put up in this 



way the bees in this yard 



have always wintered suc- 

 cessfully. 



After all these years of 



study, experiment, failure, 



and success, the subject of 



this sketch feels well re- 

 paid in the knowledge 



gained and the pleasure 



and satisfaction of achiev- 

 ing a well-earned success. 



Mr. Coggshall has been a 



subscriber and constant 



reader of the American Bee 



Journal since it was pub- 



lisht bv Samuel Wagner at 

 • Washington, D.C., and now 



has complete files of the 



same. 



m 



No. 7.— How to Get the 

 Most Out of the Hon- 

 ey-Extractor. 



BY "OLD GRIMES." 



WE have used quite a 

 number of extractors 

 in our work, and find 

 that it pays to keep up with 

 the times and use the latest 



LTe^the Cowa/randfor'gcneral use the 4-frame extractor gives the best results. There is no doubt but a 2-frame extractor 

 could be w^rkt' to advantage in a large apiary. It is certainly a fact that in a 2-frame extractor, where the cornbs are so 

 neartherpindleor Jenter the labor of turning the machine is trifling, and the honey is thrown out m less time than 

 when the cSs are a foot or more from the center. With the 4-frame extractor, if properly geared, and with a crank of not 



^'^^^'n sei:cti'ng an extrlc^or^he'purc^rslr'^ro^id buy one that is within the range of a boy's or a girl's strength to oper- 

 ate There a?e some six or eight frame extractors; these are all well enough for power but are a sort of a man-k.ller 

 when run by hand, and would certainly be too much work to put on a boy or girl, or even the good wite. 



