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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL., 



Where to Extract Honey From. 



Query 923.— In running- tor extracted 

 honey, Is it better to extract only from the 

 upper story, or from the brood-chamber as 

 well ?— Apiarist. 



From the upper story. — P.H. Elwood. 

 From the upper story. — G. M. Doo- 



LITTLE. 



From the upper story only. — G. L. 

 Tinker. 



I think from the upper only. — C. C. 

 Miller. 



The upper story 07ily. — Mrs. J. N. 

 Heater. 



Only from the upper story. — J. H. 

 Larrabee. 



As a rule, only from the upper story. 

 — M. Mahin. 



Extract only from upper stories. — C. 



H. DiBBERN. 



" Only from the upper story." — Mrs. 

 L. Harrison. 



We extract only from the supers. — 

 Dadant & Son. 



I never disturb the brood-chamber. — 

 J. M. Hambaugh. 



I never extract from the brood-cham- 

 ber. — J. A. Green. 



I extract from all frames containing 

 no brood. — J. P. H. Brown. 



It is usually best to extract only from 

 the upper stories. — A. J. Cook. 



I don't extract from the lower story if 

 they work well in the upper one. — H. D. 

 Cutting. 



Only from the upper stories, if the 

 brood-chamber is of ordinary size only. 

 — E,. L. Taylor. 



When I produced extracted honey I 

 took off the surplus, no matter in what 

 part of the hive it was stored. — Mrs. 

 Jennie Atchley. 



I prefer extracted honey taken from 

 combs that have never had any brood in 

 them, therefore I should let the brood- 

 chamber alone, and give the bees plenty 

 of combs above. — Emerson T. Abbott. 



Let the brood-chamber alone, as a 

 rule. If room is given above, there is 

 no danger of too much honey being 

 stored below. — Eugene Secor. 



If there is too much honey in the 

 brood-chamber, extract it, of course, be- 

 cause it is better to give the queen 

 plenty of room. — A. B. Mason. 



During the season get all the clear ex- 

 tracted honey you can ! The operator's 

 own personal judgment should be the 

 guide in such matters as this. — W. M. 

 Barnum. 



We use three stories, and then extract 

 from the second and third. If I had 

 only two stories I would keep the honey 

 out of the lower one until the bees had 

 just time enough to fill the upper stories 

 full of honey for winter food. — E. 

 France. 



Much depends. In extracting from 

 the brood-chamber there is great danger 

 of throwing out a large quantity of 

 brood, aud thus weakening the colony. 

 Make an individual case of it, and use 

 your own judgment. I don't think any 

 satisfactory and positive rule can be 

 given. — J. E. Pond. 



I would only extract from the upper 

 story, and leave that deposited in the 

 brood-chamber for the bees, unless sugar 

 were much cheaper than the extracted 

 honey— enough so to pay for the trouble 

 of handling the honey and then feeding 

 them back sugar, for their winter stores. 

 — Jas. a. Stone. 



Mostly from the upper story, but it 

 sometimes happens that there will be 

 too much honey stored in the brood- 

 frames. It may happen when swarms 

 have been hived on full sets of combs, 

 and where colonies have swarmed and 

 had their brood mostly out at the com- 

 mencement of the honey harvest. In 

 such cases they may fill up with honey 

 to the exclusion of brood. In such it 

 would pay to extract from the brood- 

 nest. — S. I. Freeborn. 



I never enter the brood-chamber to 

 take honey. The trouble I most often 

 meet with is an empty brood-chamber in 

 the fall when the brood is all hatched 

 out. The best condition I can conceive 

 of at any time of year, is a good supply 

 of honey in the brood-chamber. When 

 I "feed back" pure honey at the close 

 of the early honey-flow (early in July), 

 to have my unfinished sections com- 

 pleted, I have the work done over brood- 

 nests chock-full of sealed honey and 

 brood, and there is a surprisingly little 

 loss in "feeding back." — G. W. Dem- 



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