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Advanced Bee Culture 



EXTRACTOR DRIVEN RY GASOLINE-ENGINE. 



Another question follows on: Is the hone\' that is left in the combs 

 lost or wasted? I kn"\v that must producers of extracted honey 

 ha\-e these combs cleaned up by the bees^either by puttiiiy them out in 

 the open air, or allowing the bees to have access to the honey-house, 

 or by placing the combs on the hives. I question if any of these 

 steps are taken at a profit. It is a lot of work to carry out hundreds 

 of supers and put them on the hives, then free the combs of bees, and 

 get the combs off the hives, and back into the hone\-house. If the bees 

 are allowed to have access to the combs out of doors, or in the honey- 

 house, there is excitement, commotion, and demoralizati' m in the apiary 

 at a time when the bees ought to be settling down for winter. Perhaps 

 the excitement causes the consumption of as nuich more honey as is 

 secured. Yes, I know that the honey ^\■ill cand_\ unless it is removed; 

 and, in the spring, the bees wiU consume ver\- little (if it. The)' will 

 dig it out and kick it out of the hive. The lioney left in the extracting 

 combs is practically lost. As I look at it, the use of a power extractor 

 would enable us to disjiense with the \varming of tlie hone\', and leave 

 the combs cleaner than when we did warm it and extract it by hand 

 l.iow er. 



If I were to adopt the eight-comb and piwver, I would get only one 

 extractor and one engine, and then move them from one vard to an- 

 c'ther, as the work was CDiupleted at each yard. This, of course, would 



