. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. A PART OF THE DADANT HOME APIARY is a tight building where supers and other necessary equipment are stored and where the extracting is done. An extractor is kept at each of the yards and the honey placed in barrels as fast as extracted. Capping cans are used to receive the cappings. They are light and easy to move about, yet large enough to hold the cappings for an entire day's work. Since all wax is rendered at home the cappings are taken home at the close of each day. A number of cans are in use so that they may be left in the can long enough to dra
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. A PART OF THE DADANT HOME APIARY is a tight building where supers and other necessary equipment are stored and where the extracting is done. An extractor is kept at each of the yards and the honey placed in barrels as fast as extracted. Capping cans are used to receive the cappings. They are light and easy to move about, yet large enough to hold the cappings for an entire day's work. Since all wax is rendered at home the cappings are taken home at the close of each day. A number of cans are in use so that they may be left in the can long enough to drain thoroughly. Escapes are used altogether in remov- ing honey, which greatly lessens the annoyance from bees. Even when es- capes are used, if the honey is removed after the close of the flow, the bees will soon be trying every possible opening to find a way into the building ?nd a screened entryway like that shown on first page will be found very effective the success or failure of the venture. During a heavy honey flow the bee- keeper with five or six hundred colo- nies of bees will find it necessary to step lively with even the best possible arrangement. Not long since a pub- lisher remarked to the writer, that he had thought his offices very crowded and felt the need of additional room, until an expert rearranged his plant, after which there was room to spare. The same principle will apply to bee- keeping. The man who uses a good system of arrangement from start to finish will easily find it possible to care for a much larger number of colonies than would be possible with a careless arrangement. The position of the honey-house in relation to the apiary, the position of the extractor in the honey-house, the readiness with which tools and equipment can be reached when needed and similar small matters will make a great difference in the amount of work which can be done in a day. The elimination of a few un- necessary steps each day will make it possible for a man to care for
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