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The Central Plant 



The central extracting plant has many features which malce 

 it attractive to the outapiarist so located as to make such a system 

 practicable. Having all equipment in one building and all expendi- 

 tures for houses to be embodied in one central house, it is possible 

 to so plan as to include, in this one, all modern equipment advan- 

 tageous for running several hundred colonies of bees. 



This plan is much favored by any beekeeper who has once 

 practiced it, and we have to hear of a single instance where the 

 central plant was given up when once tried. Almost all bee- 

 keepers using this plan, however, have had previous experience 

 with outyard work and were able to judge whether it would fit 

 in with their system of management before they made the change. 



Fig. 58. Central plant of the Jager apiaries in Minnesota. This is one of 

 the most complete buildings of its kind anywhere. 



