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tiou will occasionally occur ; at such times we should always 

 extract from the brood-chamber. 



The extractor also enables the apiarist to secure honey — 

 extracted honey — in poor seasons, when he could get very little, 

 if any, in sections or boxes. By use of the extractor we can 

 largely avoid swarming, and thus work for honey instead of 

 increase of colonies. 



By use of the extractor, at any time or season, the apiarist 

 — especially the beginner — can secure nearly, if not quite, 

 double the amount of honey that he could get in combs. It 

 requires much more skill to succeed in procuring comb honey 

 than is required to secure extracted. The beginner will 

 usually succeed far better if he work for extracted honey. 



The extractor enables us to remove uncapped honey in the 

 fall, which, if left in the hive, may prove injurious to the bees. 

 It is usually better, however, to let the bees do this. By giving 

 many frames — hundreds at a time — these may be given to bees 

 in a box or in hives piled high above each other, right in the 

 apiary. 



By use of the extractor, too, we can throw the honey from 

 our surplus brood-combs in the fall, and thus have a salable 

 article, and have the empty combs, which are invaluable for 

 use the next spring. 



If the revolving racks of the extractor have a wire basket 

 attachment (Fig. ISO), as I have suggested, the uncapped sec- 

 tions can be emptied in the fall and used the following spring 

 at a marked advantage. These, of course, may be cleaned by 

 the bees, as above described, or, if we have but few, by plac- 

 ing them in a super above any strong colony. Pieces of drone- 

 comb cut from the brood-chamber, which are so admirable for 

 starters in the sections, can be emptied of their honey at any 

 season. 



By use of the extractor we can furnish at two-thirds the 

 price we ask for comb honey, an article which is equal, if not 

 superior, to the best comb honey, and, which, were it not for 

 appearance alone, would soon drive the latter from the market. 

 Extracted honey is also much more easily and safely shipped. 



Indeed, extracted honey is gaining so rapidly in public 



