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THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



keeps moist, and so will keep the bees in health for a long jour- 

 ney. It should not be too wet, or it will drip; nor too dry, or 

 it will crumble. 



SHIPPING BEES. To ship nuclei or full colonies, great care 

 should be exercised that the frames are so fastened that even 

 the roughest handling will not move them. The 

 combs should be old, so they will not break out, 

 or else wired, as when we use wired foundation. 

 The ventilation should also be ample and 

 perfect. With a large colony, in hot 

 weather, not only the entrance, but the 

 whole top of the hive must be thus 

 covered with gauze. 



EXTRACTING AND THE EXTRACTOR. Ex- Fl - 



tracted honey can be produced in double the quantities of comb 

 honey, and is getting to have a large and regular demand. By 

 extracting swarming can be restricted, and often it would pay 

 to extract even were there no use for the extracted honey, as, 

 unless extracted, the space for brood is so restricted that breed- 

 ing nearly or wholly ceases. Well then has it been said that 



few apiarian inventions 

 equal in value the honey 

 extractor. 



The honey extractor 

 (Fig. 29) should be of 

 metal, should run with 

 gearing, should hold one 

 or two hundred pounds 

 of honey beneath the re- 



FiG. 30. 



volving frame which car- 



ries the combs, should 

 have a molasses gate for a faucet, and should have a movable 

 wire basket to use in extracting from pieces of comb which 



break out of the frames. 







To extract, we ought to have a comb basket (Fig. 30), which 

 shall hold all the frames of a single hive, and shall have close 

 covers. To get the bees from a frame of comb, first give the 



