. A manual of bee-keeping. Bees. THE HONEY-EXTRACTOR OR SLINGER. 125 may be used in the open air without much trouble, but at other times the operation must'be performed under cover, or at least not very near the hives, or the Bees will soon find out the prize to be recovered and interrupt operations. The following instructions given by Mr. Root are short and to the purpose. " The best time is when they are busy in the fields, and if the yield is good, you will hardly need any smoke. Carefully remove a frame from the hive, and then with a series of sudden jerks shake the Bees in front of
. A manual of bee-keeping. Bees. THE HONEY-EXTRACTOR OR SLINGER. 125 may be used in the open air without much trouble, but at other times the operation must'be performed under cover, or at least not very near the hives, or the Bees will soon find out the prize to be recovered and interrupt operations. The following instructions given by Mr. Root are short and to the purpose. " The best time is when they are busy in the fields, and if the yield is good, you will hardly need any smoke. Carefully remove a frame from the hive, and then with a series of sudden jerks shake the Bees in front of the hive or on top of the frames, as you may find most convenient. When you have shaken off as many as you can, take a bunch of asparagus tops, and gently brush off every Bee in front of the hive. Now with the honey-knife carefully cut the. Fig. 51- cappings from all capped cells : to do this quickly you will slide the knife under the caps in such a way as to have them come off in one entire sheet. When the comb is uncapped it is to be placed in the Extractor; although you can extract one comb at a time if you choose, it is much better to have two, as they then balance each other, and the friction is less on the bearings. Turn just fast enough (and no faster) to throw out the honey, and there will be no danger of throwing out the brood ; you will soon learn this by practice. Combs so full of brood that there is but little room for honey had bettej. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hunter, John. London, W. H. Allen
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