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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



May 15 



The operator will soon learn to receive the 

 combs in his right hand and toss them in a 

 fairly regular pile behind without looking 

 around. (Some might not want to have 

 their fine combs treated that way; but no 

 breakage occurs from this practice) . I think 

 that one skillful man, by this method, can 

 unload three extractors while a man who 

 takes out a frame at a time and places it in 

 the super, then moves up his extractor and 

 gets out another, is unloading one. 



In Fig. 4 the operator is seen in the act of 

 picking up four frames at once to place them 

 in the super, as in Fig. 5. In Fig. 6 he is 

 reaching back for three more to make out a 

 super of seven frames. This placing of the 

 frames in the super is done just after the ex- 

 tractor has been filled and started up. Any 

 rearranging of hive-bodies, or stacking of 

 supers with empty combs, can be done after 

 the extractor has been reversed. 



Mesilla Park, N. M. 



HOW COMBS SHOULD BE HANDLED WHEN LOADING AND UNI-OADING A POWER 



HONEY-EXTRACTOR. 



