Gleanings in bee culture . * I have learned since writing the above that entire crop this past season ran some-thing over 80,000 pounds. One apiary averaged over160 pounds to the colony; another, 150 pounds, fed sugar this fall at the rate of 5 pounds Pig. 3.—Mr. Holtermann and two helpers removing honey from thehives. One helper opens the hives and manipulates the smoker. Mr. the combs, then holds them while the second helper with two brushesclears off the few remaining bees. Fig. 2.^Gasoline-engine located outside the building, and belted to the ext
Gleanings in bee culture . * I have learned since writing the above that entire crop this past season ran some-thing over 80,000 pounds. One apiary averaged over160 pounds to the colony; another, 150 pounds, fed sugar this fall at the rate of 5 pounds Pig. 3.—Mr. Holtermann and two helpers removing honey from thehives. One helper opens the hives and manipulates the smoker. Mr. the combs, then holds them while the second helper with two brushesclears off the few remaining bees. Fig. 2.^Gasoline-engine located outside the building, and belted to the extractor through a hole cut in the wall. ing the honey up to the 5 shows the vehicle in question withempty supers ready to go back to the extractor-house has an opening in theside through which the full and empty su-pers are passed to do away with the loss oftime and greater danger of robbers causedby opening and shut-ting the regular door, THE UNCAPPING - CAN VS. THE CAPPING- MELTER. Mr. Holtermann hasnever used a capjDing-melter, but has seen itin use enough to makeup his mind that hedoes not want such anoutfit for his own figures that thecapping-melter, whileit melts the wax andseparates all of thehoney, requires muchmore attention tha
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