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also the redundant brood, and excessive storing that follows 

 upon extracting from the brood-chamber, makes me emphatic 

 upon this point, notwithstanding the fact that some men of 

 wide experience and great intelligence think me wrong. 



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 avoid swarming, and thus work for honey instead of 

 increase of colonies. 



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

 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 cause disease and death. 



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. 92) as I have suggested, the uncapped sec- 

 tions can be emptied in the fall, if desired ; and 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 one-half 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. 



Indeed, extracted honey is gaining so rapidly in public fa- 

 vor that even now its production is far in excess of that of 

 comb-honey. 



WHEN TO USE THE EXTEACTOE. 



If extracted honey can be sold for fifteen cents, or even 

 for ten or twelve, the extractor may be used profitably the 

 summer through; otherwise use it sufficiently often that there 

 may alwa3'S be empty worker-cells in the brood-chamber. 



It is often required with us during the three great honey 



