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

 we can avoid swarmino^, 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. 



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. 107) as I have suggested, the uncapped 

 sections can be emptied in the fall and used the following 

 spring at a marked advantage. Pieces of drone-comb 

 cut from the brood chamber, which ai-e 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. 



Indeed, extracted honey is gaining so rapidly in public 

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

 of comb honey. 



WHEN TO USE THE EXTRACTOR. 



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 it may be used as suggested 

 by the principles stated above. 



I would always extract just as the bees commence cap- 

 pin o' the honey. Then we avoid the labor of uncapping, 



