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Method of Extracting. 



kept for sale by supply dealers. If the bees are trouble- 

 some, close the box as soon as each comb is placed inside. 

 Extract the honey from these, using care not to turn so 

 hard as to throw out the brood. If capped, with a thin 

 knife pare off the caps, and after throwing the honey from 

 one side, turn the comb around, and extract it from the 

 other. If the combs are of very different weights, it will 

 be better for the extractor to use those of nearly equal 

 weights on opposite sides, as the strain will be much less. 



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110. 



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Now take these combs to another colony, whose combs 

 shall be replaced by them. Then close the hive, extract 

 this second set of combs, and thus proceed till all the honey 

 has been extracted. At the close, the one or two colonies 

 from which the first combs were taken shall receive pay 

 from the last set extracted, and thus, with much saving of 

 time, little disturVjance of bees, and the least invitation to 

 robbing, in case there is no gathering, we have gone rap- 

 idly through the apiary. 



Some apiarists take the first set of combs from a single 

 colony and leave that colony without combs till they are 

 through for the da)-. If the bee-keeper works for extracted 

 honey the extracting combs should be kept separately in 

 an upper story (Figs. 60 and 61), while the queen and 



