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there is generally some that is not sealed, and this is greatly im- 
proved by the evaporation.’’ 
‘When following the plan of extracting the honey late in the 
year the combs may be freed from bees with the bee-escape or by 
brushing. At our Kalkaska yard, where both comb and extracted 
honey are produced in the same super, all supers are taken off with 
the escape. One day is sufficient to free the bees from a shallow 
super; but more time will be necessary to get the bees out of a 
full-depth super. Knowing that the Hutchinsons have had much 
experience in getting bees out of full-depth supers with the escape- 
board, I asked Mr. Elmer Hutchinson, of Pioneer, Mich., to tell 
something of the plan. His letter is as follows: 
“* We put only one full-depth super over an escape-board, for 
the bees are rather slow in leaving if more than one are put on at 
once. We give the bees a few vigorous puffs of smoke, driving 
down perhaps half of them, and then put on the escapes. If these 
are put on in the morning of a warm day, from one-half to three- 
fourths of the supers will be ready to come off by evening, and 
most of the others will be free of bees by the next morning. I have 
not noticed any difference in the time it takes, whether the combs 
are all sealed or only partly sealed; but a few dozen cells of brood 
will hold the bees in the supers a long time. 
‘There is one thing about which I should like to caution 
beginners: Be sure the colonies have a queen; and, no matter how 
tight the covers are, keep a close watch, for there may be trouble 
from robbers. ELMER HUTCHINSON. 
THE LOCATION OF EXTRACTING-YARDS; THE ADVANTAGE 
OF A PROTECTED APIARY; HOW TO GET HONEY 
TO THE EXTRACTING-HOUSE WITH THE 
LEAST EFFORT 
If the bees find as much genuine pleasure in working in a 
yard where there is good outside protection from prevailing winds 
as the operator does, then there can be no doubt that this outside 
protection is a good thing. My boys are always glad when we 
have finished extracting at one of our yards where there is but 
little protection; and they look forward gladly to the work at our 
Pine Lake yard where there is protection from the wind. In our 
beekeeping experience I suppose we have had yards in at least 25 
different places, and in all kinds of locations—some well protected, 
and others not protected at all from the prevailing winds; there- 
fore we think we have learned the value of protection, from actual 
experience. 
