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35th Year. 



CHICAGO, ILL., JUNE 6, 1895. 



No. 23. 



Cot)inhuicd /Vrticles> 



On Important Apiarian Subjects. 



No. 6.— The Harvesting of Extracted Honey. 



BT CHA8. DADANT. 



In running an apiary for extracted honey, there is but 

 little outlay of expense, and that is one reason why it may be 

 produced much cheaper than comb honey. Yet, to succeed 



be inverted without raising them out, the work proceeds 

 faster. We use a 4-frame extractor, the basket of which is 

 13 inches wide, so that two half-frames 6 inches deep can be 

 placed side by side on each face of the basket. This gives us 

 room for 8 half-depth frames. 



The capping-can is also, to us, an indispensable imple- 

 ment. Nothing can well take its place, for the cappings, the 

 pieces of broken combs, must be placed at once where the 

 honey may readily drain out of them, and nothing answers 

 the purpose but the capping-can. This is one of the very few 

 original useful articles to which we lay claim as inventors — 

 710 patent, however. The capping-can is composed of two 

 cans fitting into each other, the upper one having a wire-cloth 



"Rose Hill Apiary," at Belleville, III., Mr. E. T. Flanarjan, Proprietor. — See page -164. 



well, a few implements are necessary. First, an extractor of 

 good quality is needed. We have generally been using the 

 Excelsior, but any good make is satisfactory. We would, 

 however, recommend a 4-frame extractor with stationary 

 basket in preference to a reversible basket. The -A-frame 

 extractor does not occupy any more room than the 2-frame re- 

 versible, and if the cage is so arranged that the frames may 



bottom, so that the honey drains out of it into the lower reser- 

 voir. 



In a good season, it is well to have also two or three, or 

 even four, strong tin pans made large enough to receive the 

 supers. These pans are only l}i inches deep, and are in- 

 tended to catch the drippings, if there is any, that may fall 

 from the combs of honey while they are taken out and hand- 



