SOUTHERN BEE CULTURE 6i 



them in the work; and, besides, they now have the brood-nest established in 

 the bottom story; and if the honey-flow is still on th«y will soon enter the 

 top one and build a set of combs there and store their surplus honey up there 

 so it can be easily removed. 



In order to get the best results during the honey-flow, the bees must be 

 prepared for it as for section and chunk honey," having as large a field force 

 as possible at the beginning of the honey-flow, and at once they will com- 

 mence storing their surplus honey in the top story. If time permits, as soon as 

 the comb is well filled, and the honey about capped, start the extractor ; if not, 

 defer the extracting until the close of the honey-flow ; but see that the bees 

 have plenty of room by changing full frames of honey from the colonies that 

 have advanced for empty comb from those that are behind or store them 

 in the honey-house and give the bees frames of foundation, or add another 

 story on top. If honey is extracted during the flow, the empty frames can 

 be immediately returned to the hives ; but if extracting is done at the end of 

 the flow, or during a honey-dearth, the combs should be returned to the bees 

 late in the evening unless the apiary is very small; then it would not 

 matter when they were returned, and it could better be done along as the 

 honey was extracted from them. 



It is customary to return the combs to the bees when the honey has been 

 extracted from them, and left in the care of the bees during sxmimer and 

 winter. 



It is often necessary to remove an extracting-story on account of the con- 

 dition of the colony, and set it on top of some strong one, and set it back as 

 soon as constant attention is not required. 



Extracted honey should be put in tanks or open-top barrels, and allowed 

 to remain thus for a day or two, and thus give all impurities a chance to rise 

 to the surface and be removed ; then it should be drawn out from the bottom 

 into two-pound cans, quart, half-gallon, gallon, and five-gallon cans, kegs, or 

 barrels, and put on the market. 



The production of extracted honey is the least difficult and the most 

 profitable and satisfactory way to produce honey here in the South. It costs 

 mor? to equip an apiary for extracted honey than it does for either section 

 or chunk honey ; but when once equipped this expense is over. 



APIARIAN APPLIANCES. 



Aside from the invention of the movable frame or modem hives there 

 have been useful and necessary implements invented from time to time to be 

 be used in modern bee-keeping to make it a more profitablej interesting, and 

 comfortable pursuit ; and every apiary should be equipped with some of them, 

 as they are so necessary and cheap ; but what we need in the way of imple- 

 ments depends on what we are operating our bees for — chunk, combv or ex- 



