were not used. The charge for a full depth hive body would be a 
tablespoonful. If the drug runs on the comb honey no harm is 
done. Better results are secured when the temperature is 60°F. or 
higher. Full dependence on this for killing eggs should not be 
placed, since it sometimes fails. A second fumigation 10 days 
later, after all eggs have hatched, will get the creatures which 
have emerged in the interim. 
Harvesting Extracted Honey 
Supers of honey to be extracted, when the bees are kept near 
neighbors, should first have the bees removed by the use of the 
bee escape. It is possible when the bees are kept where no annoyance 
to neighbors can result from considerable excitement in the apiary 
to remove the bees from the combs by heavy smoking, shaking 
and brushing. This, however, usually gets the apiary in an uproar 
and may result in the less experienced beekeeper deciding that bees 
are undesirable property. 
Extracting honey and working with wax is a mussy job, and 
it is good business to provide a room for this and other bee work 
only. 
The honey house should have screened windows but a tight 
wooden door. The supers after the bees are removed should be 
taken into the honey house, which is provided with the extractor, 
uncapping knife, buckets, the settling tank and the cappings re- 
ceiver and press. 
The capping should be removed from the combs using the down- 
ward stroke of the uncapping knife. 
The honey should be allowed to accumulate in the extractor 
until it reaches the level of the bottom of the baskets and then 
a pailful drawn off; then again allowed to accumulate. In this 
way the largest particles of wax will be retained in the extractor 
until the last and then strained through some very coarse material. 
This will provide against a great amount of wax particles being 
in the settling tank. 
When, after a few days, the heavier and lighter particles which 
may have been in the honey have gone to the bottom or top, the 
honey may be drawn from the faucet without straining. When the 
settling tank is nearly emptied it may be tilted forward toward the 
faucet and clear honey drawn off until about the last ten pounds, 
which must be strained. 
Returning Wet Combs to Bees 
If a later honey flow is expected the supers should be returned 
to the hives to receive such flow. Even if no later flow is expected 
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