284 Method of Extracting. 
kept for sale by supply dealers. If the bees are trouble- 
some, close the box as soon as each comb is placed inside. 
Extract the honey from these, using care not to turn so 
hard as to throw out the brood. If capped, with a thin 
knife pare off the caps, and after throwing the honey from 
one side, turn the comb around, and extract it from the 
other. If the combs are of very different weights, it will 
be better for the extractor to use those of nearly equal 
weights on opposite sides, as the strain will be much less, 
Fic. 110. 
Davis Brush, 
Now take these combs to another colony, whose combs 
shall be replaced by them. Then close the hive, extract 
this second set of combs, and thus proceed till all the honey 
has been extracted. At the close, the one or two colonies 
from which the first combs were taken shall receive pay 
from the last set extracted, and thus, with much saving of 
time, little disturbance of bees, and the least invitation to 
robbing, in case there is no gathering, we have gone rap- 
idly through the apiary. 
. Some apiarists take the first set of combs from a single 
colony and leave that colony without combs till they are 
through for the day. If the bee-keeper works for extracted 
honey the extracting combs should be kept separately in 
an upper story (Figs. 60 and 61), while the queen and 
