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in the hive, diminishing the amount of brood cells, and 
thus prove almost damaging, rather than useful to the 
bee-keeper. This difficulty and the difficulty so often 
experienced in getting the bees to commence in a box 
after a full one is removed, besides the objection to a 
half finished box-honey, is overcome in the Champion 
hive, described in the chapter on hives. 
THE HONEY EXTRACTOR. 
This is a machine made to empty pure honey from 
the comb, leaving it uninjured, so that it can be re- 
turned to the bees to be filled again, when the opera- 
tion may be repeated. The comb, from which the 
honey is to be emptied, is first uncapped with a long 
knife, and inserted in the revolving case of the machine 
and when one side is empted by centrifugal force, 
caused by the revolving motion, the other side of the 
comb is emptied in like manner. 
The great value of the use of this machine is only 
fully comprehended when we consider, first ; the saving 
of the comb ; second, at the time when the lime tree 
is in bloom, honey is secreted so fast that the bees can 
not stop to build comb ; in some localities the combs 
can be emptied every other day, before they are capped; 
under such circumstances bees have gathered as much 
as twenty pounds of honey der day. A correspondent 
of the American Bee Jonrnal for August and Septem- 
