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readily see that the capping-s, not too 

 compact, would present a very larg^e 

 surface, and the honey on them could 

 become thin and drain ofi' very rapidly, 

 and if 3'ou will allow the paradox, the 

 wetter the cappings became in a day, 

 the drier they would be in a week. 



Possibly there may be objections I 

 know nothing about, and you have mj' 

 gracious permission to extract in cel- 

 lar, outdoor, or in an attic, but if I 

 were next .year to go back to extract- 

 ing, it would be in the cellar. 



C. C. Miller. 



As I strain my honey and run it 

 direct!}^ into 60-pound cans, thus ex- 

 cluding it from the air, there is no 

 objection, on this score, to my use of 

 the cellar for extracting purposes. 



At the Michigan convention Mr. S. 

 D. Chapman told me that he always 

 extracted his hone^' in the cellar, and 

 found no objection to so doing. 



Mr. R. F. Holtermann, of Ontario, 

 was over to our Michigan convention, 

 and put a December issue of the 

 Review in his pocket to read while on 

 the way home, and afterwards he 

 wrote me as follows : — 



You say, on page 371 of Review, "I 

 would like to know if an}' of my sub- 

 scribers have had any experience ex- 

 tracting in a cellar." This has been 

 mj' experience several times. It has 

 its advantages and disadvantag^es. I 

 like to run my wheelbarrow with 

 supers directly into the honej' house. 

 This I did in only one cellar, with 

 fairly wide and long steps. By means 

 of a plank, and c^re, it was done. 

 Generally the honey must be carried 

 down. 



The place is cool to work in, and the 

 bees are less inclined to follow and 

 give trouble than with a building 

 above ground. 



Care should, of course, be observed 

 to not expose honey to the moisture of 

 the cellar after work is over. 



The greatest objection I found to the 

 cellar was getting the barrels of honey 

 out when through extracting; but, all 

 in all, it is not an objectionable place 

 to extract honey. 



R. F. HOLTKRMANN. 



The cellar that I wish to use as an 

 extracting room is built upon a side 



hill right by the side of the apiary, 

 and the floor of the cellar is level with 

 the outside earth, hence the wheel- 

 barrow can be run right into the cellar 

 with its load. Then, again, I store 

 my honey in 60-lb cans, and there is 

 no trouble in wheeling them out of the 

 cellar. 



Mr. M. V. Facey, a veteran of Min- 

 nesota, who is just beginning a series 

 of articles for the Review, writes as 

 follows : — 



Pricston, Minn., Jan. 4, 1907. 

 Friend Hutchinson, 



In answer to your query as to ex- 

 tracting in a cellar, I will say that I 

 have used cellars every year, amongst 

 my farmer friends, for extracting 

 purposes, and find them quite satis- 

 factory. 



If there are four men extracting, one 

 will work altogether in the yard, re- 

 moving full combs and putting back 

 empty ones; a second man carries the 

 combs forward to the cellar and back, 

 and puts in odd time putting in the 

 empty combs, and the other two work 

 in the cellar all the time, As I work 

 in the yard, and the man carrying 

 combs goes to putting combs back as 

 soon as he arrives, it frequently gives 

 me a little leisure. 



If three men are working, one works 

 in the yard, one carries and helps in 

 cellar, and the third works entirely in 

 cellar. 



The coolness of the cellar has never 

 interfered with the extracting process, 

 nor with the health or comfort of the 

 workers. My men rather like the cel- 

 lar extracting. 



M. V. Facey. 



It is quite likely that I will try ex- 

 tracting in the cellar another season. 

 The extractor will be set upon the 

 floor, and a hole dug and boarded up 

 in which to place the strainer and the 

 scales for weighing the cans as they 

 are filled with honey. I think that I 

 shall place a partition across the mid- 

 dle of the cellar, take off the honey 

 with bee escapes, store it in the back 

 part of the cellar, behind the partition, 

 heating it up with a coal fire be- 

 fore extracting it. 



