. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. .-. of Pettit Apiary Building 7. The work of extracting, onc< started, rried through more ii illy. 8. At tile end - . son all supers are at thi o\ erhaul- ing or painting many of them will need. Xo doubt thi of this sys- tem will know other advantages I have missed. The 'I. ! i es of bringing su- uact are: 1. The expense of hauling full supers home and empty ones out. including some risk of breaking This includes first cost, up- keep and depreciation of truck; also the time of driver. Against this must be balanced the fact that a light truck is pra
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. .-. of Pettit Apiary Building 7. The work of extracting, onc< started, rried through more ii illy. 8. At tile end - . son all supers are at thi o\ erhaul- ing or painting many of them will need. Xo doubt thi of this sys- tem will know other advantages I have missed. The 'I. ! i es of bringing su- uact are: 1. The expense of hauling full supers home and empty ones out. including some risk of breaking This includes first cost, up- keep and depreciation of truck; also the time of driver. Against this must be balanced the fact that a light truck is practically indispensable anyway; almost as many trips to the outapiaries would be needed to go to work as to bring supers home, es- pecially as the honey and wax have to come home in any case, and the moving and setting up of machinery take considerable time. 2. The trouble with robbers when wet combs are taken to a yard in the absence of a flow. This is serious, but could be overcome by going with them at night, as a last resort. 3. A more serious objection is the danger of spreading disease, and I would advise going slowly until it is pretty well eradicated from all api- aries concerned. The danger can be overcome by extreme care to prevent robbing at every step. The home garage should be in the same build- ing as the extracting room and equally bee-tight, so that each load of supers is under cover all the time at home 'except when actually mov- ing in or out. Also all supers from each apiary should be kept by them- selves, with no mixing. Extreme care with reference to infection all along the line will not only prevent spread from one apiary to another, but should eradicate American foul- brood entirely. The Pettit Apiary Building After several years of moving ma- chinery, first the hand extractor and capping can in a one-horse wagon; then the power extractor, engine and capping melter with a team, and later in a motor truck, I have become a convert to the central apiary build
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