EXTRACTED HONEY 



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deprived hive is filled with frames containing founda- 

 tions, or empty combs, and the old stock is now in the 

 condition of a newly-hived swarm. 



The doubled hive will now rapidly increase in popula- 

 tion by the hatching out of the two lots of brood, and 

 the enormous number of bees engendered will quickly 

 fill with honey the combs of the upper chamber as soon 

 as vacated by the hatching bees. 



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WAX EXTRACTOR 



Experience will teach how much more super room 

 will be required from time to time. 



It is obvious that by this system the population of the 

 hive doubled is speedily brought to its maximum, also 

 since one queen, however prolific, cannot do the work 

 of two, the population just as quickly subsides. There- 

 fore the process of doubling should be so carried out 

 that the hive is at its greatest strength simultaneously 

 with the main honey flow. 



Wax Extracting 



If much extracting be done, instead of using the 

 strainer of the ripener as a receptacle for the capping s, 



