. Bees and how to keep Bees. 25 full it should be raised and a second one placed beneath it. This will keep the bees occupied and help to discourage swarming. In removing the supers from the hive, which should not be done until the honey is all or nearly all capped over with wax, a super clearer such as is employed for the removal of comb- honey is used, or the bees may be shaken or brushed off the comb. The honey may be extracted as soon as the supers are removed from the hive, because it is easier to extract it when the combs are warm than when the honey has grown cold. Before the hon
. Bees and how to keep Bees. 25 full it should be raised and a second one placed beneath it. This will keep the bees occupied and help to discourage swarming. In removing the supers from the hive, which should not be done until the honey is all or nearly all capped over with wax, a super clearer such as is employed for the removal of comb- honey is used, or the bees may be shaken or brushed off the comb. The honey may be extracted as soon as the supers are removed from the hive, because it is easier to extract it when the combs are warm than when the honey has grown cold. Before the honey can be extracted it is necessary to uncap the comb on both sides; this is done by means of a sharp uncapping knife which has been heated in hot water or by a steam-heated knife. Fig. 21.—Uncapping Fig. 22.—Steam-heated uncapping knife with tank. The uncapping should be done over some kind of a receptacle into which the cappings will fall, so that any honey may drain from them freely. As the combs are uncapped they are placed in the extractor until it is full, the extractor is then turned until all the honey has been thrown from the combs. When a radial extractor is used both sides of the combs are emptied at the same time, but where a basket extractor is used, it is advisable to extract only part of the honey from the first side and then to reverse the combs and empty the other side and again reverse them to finish the first side, otherwise the combs may be broken by the weight of the honey on the inner side. Where only a few colonies are kept, a small hand extractor is guite sufficient to handle the crop, but for large apiaries a power extractor is necessary. Where the gravity system for conveying the honey from the extractor to the storage tanks is impossible, a honey pump is very coonvenient when employing a power outfit. To-expediate the work of uncapping a steam-heated uncapping knife should be used. In place of this, however, two ordinary uncapping knives m
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