1898. 



TEE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPEB. 



167 



Extracting Thick Honey I^ate in 

 the Season. 



Written for the American Bee-Keeper . 



BY <;. M. DOOLITTLE. 



^]fe CORRESPONDENT writes,wish- 

 "fsMj^i) ing to know how he can get 

 ^^^ thick honey out of the combs 

 late in the season with the extractor. 

 He has tried it previous years and 

 made a failure of it, not securing more 



Keeper. 



Were it not that a much better arti- 

 cle can be produced by leaving the 

 honey on the hives until the end of the 

 season, or until all is thoroughly sealed 

 or ripened, I should be greatly in favor 

 of extracting every third or fourth day 

 during the honey flow; but after re- 

 peated trials of this kind, with nearly 

 all kinds of artificial evaporation, I 



Apiary of C. B. Howard, Romulus, N. Y. 



than 75 per cent, of what there was in 

 the combs. He thinks that if extract- 

 ing could be done as easily in the fall 

 or early winter as in the summer time, 

 it would be quite a saving to allow the 

 combs of honey to remain on the hives 

 till fall, then store the combs away and 

 extract at "our leisure." He also 

 wished to know if he could extract the 

 honey from part filled sections late in 

 the year. As this is an interesting sub- 

 ject, I am led to write a few words in 

 the matter for The American Bee- 



find that I cannot produce nearly so 

 good an article of honey out of this 

 thin nectar as can be produced by leav- 

 ing it in the hives for the bees to care 

 for. Hence, if we would have the best 

 honey which can be produced, it be- 

 comes a necessity that we should ex- 

 tract thick honey. 



When 1 received my first extractor 

 it came in mid-winter, and being of 

 such a make-up that I cannot wait 

 long to see a new invention work, of 

 course I must try it immediately; so I 



