58 The Townsend Bee Book 
each spring, and then, after the harvest was over, he shipped tt 
apparatus and all the honey back to Petoskey where he bottle 
the honey for the grocery trade. Since his large bottling-room ; 
Petoskey could just as well be used for an extracting-room als 
he will now ship all of his honey there to be extracted, and he wil 
therefore, be able to have everything arranged as conveniently ; 
possible. In the spring the empty combs will be shipped back 1 
the yards. Of course, there will be a large freight-bill to pay whe 
following the new plan—possibly there will not be much diffe 
ence in the expense of transportation between the new plan an 
the old; and experience alone can tell which is the more econom 
eal. 
It is evident that, if honey is taken from the hive with tl 
bee-escape, and drawn home, it will be too cold to extract to goo 
advantage, so it will have to be warmed artificially. The mo; 
feasible way to do this for the average beekeeper is probably | 
set up a heating-stove in a small room in order to make matte! 
more convenient, and also to save fuel. If this stove were set | 
the center of the room the supers of honey could be piled cris 
cross around it. Since the hot air ascends, it is well to build a 
open platform two feet from the floor, on which to pile the hone: 
for supers placed next to the floor would not get warm, and the 
would have to be lifted up eventually to a warmer part. We ha‘ 
used three benches to good advantage, placed around the stove : 
the shape of a triangle, though leaving an open place throug 
which to fire the stove. Of course, it would be possible to get tl 
room so hot that the honey would be warmed, no matter where 
might be placed; but in order to do this the heater should be lars 
or else the room quite small. O. H. Townsend, of Otsego, Micl 
has a plan similar to this, only he goes a step further and eve 
cures that part of the honey that was not capped. Concerning thi 
he writes as follows: 
‘For a fall flow of honey, the plan of extracting the hone 
after the flow is certainly a good one. If the building is put t 
properly the work can be handled very easily, and the honey e 
tracted just as well in November as in July. 
‘* One thing must be remembered, however, that the supe! 
when they are stacked up, must not be covered tightly or else t] 
moisture will not escape; and any unsealed honey will sour in tv 
days in such a warm room. In taking off my honey last year 
found that there were eighteen or twenty Heddon extractin 
supers that had been put on very late, and these contained prac’ 
cally no sealed honey. I left them on the hives so that the be 
