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or platform, for by so doing almost double 
the ordinary load may be carried with but 
little additional exertion. 
R. F. Holtermann of Canada lays a 
wooden track at each extracting-yard from 
the building down thru the hives. 
A light four-wheeled truck is loaded up 
with eight or ten full supers and pushed 
along with little effort to the extracting- 
room where the supers are slipped thru an 
opening in the side of the building. 
EXTRACTING HOUSE. 
Any well-ventilated bee-tight building 
will answer for this purpose, altho it must 
be large enough to hold the necessary ma¬ 
chinery, the supers of combs ready to ex- 
Escape in position on honey-house window. 
tract, and in some instances the cans of 
honey that have been extracted, altho in 
most cases it is better to store the honey in 
some other place and not fill up the ex- 
tracting-room in this way. The windows 
should be large, so as to admit plenty of 
light and air, and it would be better if they 
could be so arranged as to be removed en¬ 
tirely, wire-cloth screens taking their place. 
On the outside of the upper corners of the 
windows, honey-house escapes, made on the 
same principle as the hive-escapes before 
mentioned, should be attached, so that any 
bees taken into the room on one of the 
combs will go at once to the windows and 
make their escape. The door, instead 
of being made of wire screens, should be 
solid wood, so that the bees will not be 
attracted to it and interfere with the oper¬ 
ator going in and out. The bees attracted 
to the building, then, will ordinarily be fly¬ 
ing around the open windows instead, leav¬ 
ing the door comparatively free from bees. 
One who does not own a bee-tight build¬ 
ing might do the extracting in any kind of 
open shed at night, but it is necessary to 
clean every thing up thoroly in the morn¬ 
ing or else the bees will take possession and 
make considerable trouble the next day. 
EXTRACTING FOR A TWENTY OR 
THIRTY COLONY APIARY. 
For the beekeeper with 20 to 30 colonies 
a simple and practical outfit may be pro¬ 
vided at small cost. A honey-house 8 by 12 
would be quite large enough for extracting. 
For the work of extracting he will need a 
small two-frame extractor, and for con¬ 
venience it should be made reversible so 
that the baskets may be swung around to 
the other side to extract the other side of 
the combs. Two-frame automatic extract¬ 
ors are not recommended, as there is little 
if any advantage gained by their use, since 
the two baskets for the combs can be easily 
reversed by hand. 
The extractor should be securely attach¬ 
ed to a solid box firmly bolted to the floor, 
the box being of the right height for draw¬ 
Two-frame reversible honey-extractor. 
ing off the honey. The best location is near 
the wall, where there is less vibration when 
in operation, for continued vibration is apt 
to pull the can or box loose, especially if 
