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Title: The honey bee: a manual of instruction in apiculture
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Benton, Frank, 1852-1919 Charles C. Miller Memorial Apicultural Library WU
Subjects: Bee culture
Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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ce, when the yield has been sufficient to get thecombs filled and sealed, can be extracted by itself. If the supply ofcombs is insufficient to hold the whole amount gathered, it must then beextracted as fast as sealed, lest the bees, lacking ready cells in which todeposit their surplus as fast as gathered, hang idly about, or if spacefor new combs exists, only slowly provide these, losing meanwhile muchof the harvest. When sealed the honey will generally be found fairlyripened, though it may improve by being stored in open buckets or cansin a dry, warm room. EXTRACTING HOXEY. 77 The process of extracting is extremely simple, and a little practicewill enable an observing person to do it well (fig. 55). As indicatedabove, some judgment is required in the selection of combs, regardbeing had to the future condition of the colony. The filled comb-, asfast as removed, are placed in a light case the size of a hive, or a tin canmade specially for the purpose, covered closely to prevent the aa
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Fig. <1 extracting h (Original.) of robbers, and taken to the extracting room, which should be bee proof.It is not always necessary to use such care in excluding all bees, butthe novice should practice it until he learns to distinguish by the actionsof the bees when such precautions may be dispensed with. Wheneverpossible the stories containing surplus honey should be lifted up andhoney boards containing bee escapes slipped between them and the 78 MANUAL OF APICULTURE. brood apartment early iu the morning of the day before the extractingis to be done, in case the bees are still gathering, otherwise the nightbefore will do. The combs will then be free from bees, or nearly so,when the operator wishes to remove them, and will contain no honeygathered within twenty-four hours, the last days gathering having alsobeen ripened considerably during the night preceding the insertion ofthe escapes. When the queen has not been restricted in her laying tothe lower story by means of excluders, t

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