. Gleanings in bee culture . The central plant need not be locatedat a yard. Often it is more convenient tohave it somewliere else. Most of us haveour plants adjoining our homes, and if ourdwellings are not on good beekeeping terri-tory we can have, anyway, certain coloniessuch as our breeder and a few cell queen-breeding colonies need constantattention, and, when cells become ripe, nu-clei can be brought in to take care of of us look at our bees too often. Welearn to manipulate colonies less and lessas we enrich ourselves through home extracting-plant fit
. Gleanings in bee culture . The central plant need not be locatedat a yard. Often it is more convenient tohave it somewliere else. Most of us haveour plants adjoining our homes, and if ourdwellings are not on good beekeeping terri-tory we can have, anyway, certain coloniessuch as our breeder and a few cell queen-breeding colonies need constantattention, and, when cells become ripe, nu-clei can be brought in to take care of of us look at our bees too often. Welearn to manipulate colonies less and lessas we enrich ourselves through home extracting-plant fits in very wellwith this idea. Taking Extracted the interior valleys where the weatheris dry and the alfalfa flow is slow, two tothree supers to the colony will liandle theintake under ordinary conditions. Owing tothe slow flow and the dry weather, combsmay be removed while only partly capped;but when the flows are rapid and especiallyalong coast regions where the climate ismoist, an entirely different procedure must. Pig. -z.—View of extracting room looking throughdoorway into the garage. A truckload of honeyis about to be unloaded into the extracting room. take place. A colony must have from fiveto seven supers in such locations. Whetherfew or many supers, dry or moist climate,sloAV or rapid flows, the taking of tliehoney is the same. We take off by meansof bee-escapes whenever the honey is ready,and do not Avait till the end of tlie yards average a super of extractable August, 1922 GLEANINGS IN BKE CULTURE 509 honey to the colony, the full supers areplaced above escapes, removed and extract-ed. Honey produced in interior valleyscan be removed when the combs arc heavyand the bees have started to cap them along-the top. Frequent takes of a super of honeyevery 10 to 15 days throughout the season,supplying at like intervals a super of drawncomb, will result in a maximum amount ofhoney. It would be poor beekeeping, witha tremendous waste of honey and an unnec
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