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night. By this plan the honey is canned as fast as extracted, so all 
of the aroma and best flavor are retained. Such a plan is a very 
good one where the outyard is so near that the honey can be drawn 
home every day. Some of our own yards are worked much on the 
same plan, although we do not have to draw all the honey home 
each night, having plenty of room at the house to store it. 
Mr. Chapman, not having room in the house to store the combs 
after extracting, sets them out for the bees to clean up immedi- 
ately. A load of the wet combs just extracted is taken out to one 
side of the yard, and placer criss-cross for the bees to clean. The 
writer happened on the scene one July day when the extracting 
was going on; and as the flow from raspberry had ceased, there 
was nothing for the bees to do but to carry in this honey from 
combs. While there seemed to be quite an uproar, the honey was 
being taken without any sign of robbing. 
When the season is over, as there is no place in the extracting- 
house to store the tools over winter they are all drawn to the main 
house at the home yard, as are the empty combs after they are 
cleaned of the honey that is left on them after extracting. 
THE COVEYOU HONEY-HOUSE 
Mr. E. E. Coveyou, like many of the outyard beekeepers of 
Michigan, uses some of the abandoned lumber-camp buildings for 
his honey-houses. He does not try to keep the bees from entering 
his honey-house, but plans to do the work at a time when the rob- 
bers are not likely to bother much. The honey is taken off the 
hives during the day and piled up in the yard, being covered so 
the bees can not get to it. Then, toward night, after the sun has 
warmed the honey, it is taken into the honey-house and extracted 
with his big eight-frame automatic extractor. It does not take 
long to do this, and the work is done so late in the day that the 
robbers do not get started much before it is too late for them to fly. 
After all the honey that was taken off is extracted and canned the 
combs are piled up and covered so the bees can not get to them. 
The extractor and capping-box are also closed bee-tight. This is 
not a very desirable way of handling a crop of honey, and is the 
only flaw I have been able to find in Mr. Coveyou’s methods. 
However, I understand that he will abandon this plan next season 
for another one which I will describe later. 
KIRKPATRICK’S HONEY-HOUSE 
Mr. Geo. H. Kirkpatrick, Rapid City, Mich., who has several 
yards of bees in the raspberry region, builds all his extracting: 
