PRODUCING EXTRACTED HONEY 



Even at their best the edges of the per- 

 forated holes were more or less rough and to a 

 certain extent impeded the workers, but they 

 were the best we could get, and there was no 

 choice in the matter. 



With the advent of the Root wire excluder, 

 the results in increased production of honey 

 were marked, as the bees seem readily to 

 slip through the polished edges of the wires, 

 and are not interfered with in the least, while 

 the queen is fully secured below as under the 

 old method of stamped zinc excluders. These 

 excluders are bound with wood, and with care 

 should last a number of years. 



It has been a mooted question for years as 

 to the proper size of hive to use in the pro- 

 duction of extracted honey, and the tendency 

 of late has been toward a large hive, cer- 

 tainly of no less than ten frames, which has 

 become the standard, though there is an ever 

 increasing number of extracted honey men 

 who have made special hives of twelve and 

 fourteen-frame size, claiming that swarming 



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