HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



around by hand to put it into the extractor 

 again. 



There are extractors on the market that 

 reverse automatically by a lever pressure, so 

 that when one side of the combs is emptied, 

 they are, at the will of the operator, reversed 

 in a second, and the opposite sides emptied 

 also. 



While the two-frame extractors will perhaps 

 do for the novice having a half dozen hives, 

 yet the four-frame extractor is decidedly 

 preferable, as it can be used just as effectively 

 in a small apiary, and as the number of colo- 

 nies increase, it is ample for the increased 

 output. 



There are a few beekeepers, whose colonies 

 are numbered by the hundreds and whose 

 surplus runs up into the thousands of pounds, 

 who use an extractor of eight-frame capacity, 

 and have it geared to a small gasolene engine. 

 Where the size of the apiary warrants it, this 

 is a decided saving in time and labor, but 

 where no more than one hundred colonies 



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