. The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary. Bee culture. No cover is ever needed over the extractor while at work, for it would be greatly in the way; but after we are through, or stop only temporarily, the machine should be covered to keep out dust and insects. The most con- venient thing for this purpose is a circular piece of cheap cloth, with a rubb
. The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary. Bee culture. No cover is ever needed over the extractor while at work, for it would be greatly in the way; but after we are through, or stop only temporarily, the machine should be covered to keep out dust and insects. The most con- venient thing for this purpose is a circular piece of cheap cloth, with a rubber cord run in the hem. This can be thrown over in an instant, and all is secure. When honey is coming in abundantly, it may be safe to carry the machine, located on a suitable platform, around to the hives, especially if the apiary is much scattered about. Rut if the bees are disposed to rob, all such attempts will "come to grief" very quickly. EXTRACTING FROM BROKEN PIECES OF COMB, OR FROM SEOTTON-BOXES. As we always use the I., extractor, we have extracted from pieces of comb by set- ting them up on the wire cloth at the bottom. The smaller, shallow extractors, for Gallup, Adair, and American frames, have no such attachment; therefore some arrangement is really needed for the purpose. At the same time, it would be very handy for the tall ex- tractors, when any mishap occurs to break a comb down, or when we wish to extract from heavy pieces of comb, in warm weather. Several devices have been described in the journals, but none of them suit me so well as the one figured below, which was sent me by J. I). Slack, of Plaquemine, La. He uses it for extracting from section box- es also, but I think I should prefer to do this in the wide frames that hold them, thus do- ing a full set of eight at one time. With this machine, only one could be extracted at once. exthactoi. PIECES OF COMB. EXTRACTOR WITH SPACE FOR HONEY LOW REVOLVING-FRAME. At C are a pair of hinges, that the
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