BEE -CULTURE. 



1079 



If liquid honey is to be produced, a honey extractor must be 

 called into requisition, which is now almost universally used, and 

 which has greatly simplified the raising of honey within the pastfeW 

 years. This machine, by the simple application of centrifugal force, 

 empties the combs most thoroughly of the honey, and upon being 

 removed and emptied the bees can proceed to fill them again. 



If comb honey is demanded for the market, it should be stored 

 by the bees in section frames instead of boxes, because the former 

 are clean and 

 neat to handle, 

 and can be re- 

 tailed without 

 troublesome 

 daubing; and be-' 

 cause it will bring 

 a much higher 

 price in that 

 shape. The sec- 

 tions should be 

 small and made 

 to, fit inside the 

 regular hive, 

 frame, or, rather, 

 in a wide frame 

 made of the same 



dimensions. This simplifies the work greatly, because a' frame of 

 sections can then be hung in any hive, and in either the upper or 

 lower story, as there may be occasion. If the bees have been kept 

 in a small space, so that every comb is occupied with brood and 

 pollen at the approach of the honey season, they will start in the 

 sections almost at once, if the latter are given them' just as soon as 

 they begin to be crowded for room. Give them a single frame at 

 first, and when they are well at work in, this give them another. Do 

 not put on an upper story until they are ready to go into it in large 

 numbers. Do not by any means let the bees get to clustering on 

 the outside of the hives., They will seldom do this when 1 honey 

 is to be had in the fields ; but if a strong colony gets to hanging 

 out preparatory to swarming, they .must be got into the boxes at all 

 hazards. * 



When sections are filled, tne comb honey can be removed either 

 by taking off a whole upper story and letting the bees leave it and 

 go back into the hive before the sections are taken out, or the filled 



Fig. 1460.— Inside. Pig. 1461.— Extractor Complete. 



Novice's Honey Extractor. 



