. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. Site "^tt "^tti^^tts ^t\xuXt} A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to the Interests of Honey Producers f Lao a featr W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Editor and Publisher. VOL. XXIII. FLINT. MICHIGAN, JUNE 1, 1910. NO. 6 Extracting Without Using Bee Escapes or Cloth Honey-Strainers. E. D. T EST some of •^ my readers might conceive the impression that they were out- classed, on account of our having had so much experience along the line of extracted honey production, and that the results described in this article could be secured only by those with a large exp
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. Site "^tt "^tti^^tts ^t\xuXt} A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to the Interests of Honey Producers f Lao a featr W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Editor and Publisher. VOL. XXIII. FLINT. MICHIGAN, JUNE 1, 1910. NO. 6 Extracting Without Using Bee Escapes or Cloth Honey-Strainers. E. D. T EST some of •^ my readers might conceive the impression that they were out- classed, on account of our having had so much experience along the line of extracted honey production, and that the results described in this article could be secured only by those with a large experience, I will explain that tha student, Mr. E. J. Smith, of Blanchard, Michigan, had probably not taken oflF so much honey before in his whole bee- keeping experience, as he did in those four days of extracting; and, besides removing the honey from the hives (9,500 pounds), he worked one-half the time in the honey house. My second son Arthur, twenty years old, who was brought up among the bees, did all of the uncapping of the honey. It will be seen from the above that two men with some experience in the produc- tion of extracted honey, and having the appliances that I have described to work with, ought to accomplish as much, or very nearly as much, as they did. RIDDING THE COMBS OF BEES WITHOUT RE- MOVING THEM FROM THE HIVES. We will follow Mr. Smith out in the yard and see how he managed to ac- complish this result. The tools he takes with him are a Daisy wheel-barrow, a well-lighted, 4-inch Bingham smoker, a hive-tool for prying the supers loose, a Coggshall bee-brush and a robber cloth. The latter article was used but little, as this system of management does not incite robbing. Queen excluders were used on this yard, so there was no brood to contend with in the upper stories to be extracted. Where queen excluders are used, the filled story is lifted up and the empty set of combs placed next the excluder; that is, whenever room is to be given. With this system of working
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