HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



which it is rented, or else they can be brought 

 over as needed. 



When extracting at the out yard, the extract- 

 ing supers can be taken off late in the after- 

 noon and be carted back to the home yard, 

 extracted in the place set apart for this work, 

 and be returned to the bees in the morning. 

 If this is too much trouble, a wooden frame 

 extracting cage about ten feet square, covered 

 with wire cloth, and when set up secured 

 by hooks and eyes, can be carried to the yard 

 and the extracting done on the spot. As these 

 large cages are inexpensive, and when taken 

 down can be easily carried in a small wagon, an 

 increasing number of bee-keepers who have a 

 system of out yards are using them. 



If the bees at the out yards are to be win- 

 tered outdoors with winter cases, there will be 

 no carting of the bees to the home cellar in the 

 fall and carting them back to their yards in 

 the spring, and this is an important item in 

 favor of outdoor wintering, which will be 

 considered in the chapter on "How to Winter 



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