118 PLEASUBABLE BEE-KEEPING. 



EXTEACTOES AND EXTEACTING. 



By giving supers of clean comb during the honey- 

 flow the labours of the bees are saved in one direction, 

 and utilized in another. The time they would spend 

 in producing wax and building combs is more profit- 

 ably spent in gathering, storing, and ripening honey ; 

 and the quantity thus obtained is amazingly increased, 

 and to an extent that is impossible under any other 

 system. The advantage of such a system cannot be 

 called in question ; and, further, it is the surest 

 means of preventing swarming, as more room may. 



Fig. 37. 



without disadvantage, be given to stocks worked for 

 extracted honey. The honey is ejected from the combs 

 by centrifugal force, and then the empty combs are 

 returned for refilling. 



One of the simplest and cheapest of extractors is the 

 "Little Wonder" (Fig. 37), designed by Mr. C. N. 

 Abbott nearly twenty years ago. As will be clear from 

 our illustration, the comb when uncapped is placed 

 against the wire backing ; then the iron point at the 

 bottom of the shaft is placed in a hole in the floor or 

 a heavy piece of wood. The top of the shaft, through 

 which an iron bolt passes, is then held firmly while 



