. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 98 THF BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. Last year the firm of which I am a member raised sixteen or seventeen thousand pounds of extracted. The first was candied solid before the last was out of the hives, and all of it was solid within three weeks from ex- tracting. We would drive to the yards in the morning and get a load of extracting combs, and in the afternoon extract. The same time and labor would bring in twice as much comb. In other words, a day's work would put in the house two loads of comb worth $200, as against one load of extracted worth $60 or .$70. Wh
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 98 THF BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. Last year the firm of which I am a member raised sixteen or seventeen thousand pounds of extracted. The first was candied solid before the last was out of the hives, and all of it was solid within three weeks from ex- tracting. We would drive to the yards in the morning and get a load of extracting combs, and in the afternoon extract. The same time and labor would bring in twice as much comb. In other words, a day's work would put in the house two loads of comb worth $200, as against one load of extracted worth $60 or .$70. When extracted, the honey was put into GO pound cans at a cost of just % of a cent per pound for the package. The very best offer we could get on the lot was ^''>}:2 cents in Chicago. The freight would be two cents, which would leave us but 4^4 cents. This, less the cost of cans, leaves 8 .5-(! cents per pound for all our labor. The actual cost of comb is, for the sections with foundation in and ready for the super, one cent. Cases and cleaning, about one cent, or a total of two cents outside of our field work. We could easily get V2,}4 cents in Chicago for comb. The freight was 2I4 cents. This would leave us on comb 8% cents for our field work. Now on the above basis the extrated honey colonies would give us 1% cents when the comb honey colonies would give 8^4 cents. However, with the extracted, we have double the bulk to handle, a big lot of extras in chambers and combs, an extractor, tanks, etc. Then if the honey must be liquefied— and we have to do more or less of that to sup- ply home trade—we must have a melting tank and furnace or big stove. My tank for liquefying holds six, (50 pound cans, and has run day and night at least half of the time for the past three months. Now, as shown in the first part of this arti- cle, it is not true that we can get twice as much extracted as comb. Last season we had a very slow and long continued flow—so slow that it seemed as tho
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