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warm. It is rinsed around quickly so that the whole surface is covered 

 and poured out to be used again. When packed directly for market 

 nice pound bottles put up in crates of from two to four dozen will be 

 most salable. Grocers can readily handle it in this shape. In some 

 places it is just as salable in self sealing fruit jars. If found to be so 

 it is easily put up in this way. 



The Extractor is a necessary article in every apiary for many reasons. 

 In good honey harvests, bees will often fill up the brood nest with honey 

 so that there is little room left for the queen to lay eggs. When this is 

 done the bees necessarily dwindle and sometimes become so weak as to 

 be unfit to keep over winter. Whereas by extracting the honey from 

 the combs the queen has room to lay eggs, the bees are stimulated to 

 greater activity, and the hive is kept strong for future work. By ex- 

 tracting freely during a honey harvest far more honey can be secured 

 than otherwise, because the bees are thus kept working at their best all 

 the time. Again, much honey will will be stored in the broodnest in 

 the fall when they will not make comb or store honey in surplus boxes. 

 Unless honey is plentiful in the fields, extracting should be done in a 

 closed room from which bees are excluded. 



It is best to have an extra set of combs in extracting, and open a hive 

 but once, smoking it well if the bees are cross. As the frames are re- 

 moved one by one into a carrying-box, the empty ones should take their 

 places, and the hive be closed up. 



COMB-FOUNDATION. 



Bees consume much honey in building comb. They cannot store 

 honey, or raise brood, without it; and when left to build it they will 

 not begin to build until the honey harvest opens. A farmer may suc- 

 ceed, if he has hands sufficient, in housing a good crop, though he has 

 tools and fences to make, and granaries to build after the seeding time 

 opens, but with the same help he cannot secure and house as much as 



