92 ADVANTAGES OF THE EXTBACTOE. 



"First. In a good honey harvest, the cells of hatching *~/.ood ai<s 

 afterwards filled with honey, so that the queen has little room to rear 

 brood. When this is the case, the bees will decrease very rapidly, and 

 are sometimes lost. Extracting the honey gives the queen room, stimu- 

 lates the workers, strengthens the swarm, and helps to keep it in good 

 condition to take advantage of the next honey harvest. 



" Second. Bees will often lay up honey rapidly in combs furnished 

 by extracting, when they will not make new combs. 



' ' Third. This is true, especially in the fall harvest, when instinct 

 prompts them to stove honey rapidly, when there is but little in the 

 hive. Seldom is more rapid work seen than in a spring colonly closely 

 extracted in the fall. Each bee seems to be racing with his neighbor. 

 Instinct prompts to build but little comb in the fall, and it is often too 

 cool for box building some time before they cease to lay up in the hive. 

 Hence, much less fall honey is obtained, when box honey alone is relied 

 on. The full benefit of fall extracting, is gotten only whtn the apiarian 

 has experience and expertness in rapidly supplying syrup for winter- 

 ing. "Without this, a fear of losing the bees should check a too free use 

 of the extractor. 



•'Fourth. When the extractor is mainly relied on, after a hive has 

 been swarmed, it may be doubled in this way: giving a great deal of 

 comb and a quantity of bees. Swarm a stand by the exchange method, 

 and instead of placing the old stock containing the young workers and 

 brood on a new stand, place them in the second story of this stock. 

 Thus a double set of comb is given, the hive, full of comb, is soon 

 full of bees by the hatching above and below; has a fertile queen below 

 which is necessarily prolific, whilst much honey is stored above for 

 extracting. 



"By this method, instead of increasing by swarming in the summer 



