. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. August 1, 1874.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. S5 be found a most useful machine for its removal from the combs. Our first essay with it was on the 13th July, when from three small nine- framed "\Voodbur3's we extracted 42 lbs. of purest nectar; on the 15th we tapped six hives, and extracted 125 lbs.; on the 18th two were operated on, and 45 lbs. were obtained ; on the 20th four were cleared, and 98 lbs. of pure clover honejr left the cells, and delighted the eyes of all beholders. These operations were performed without the loss of twenty
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. August 1, 1874.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. S5 be found a most useful machine for its removal from the combs. Our first essay with it was on the 13th July, when from three small nine- framed "\Voodbur3's we extracted 42 lbs. of purest nectar; on the 15th we tapped six hives, and extracted 125 lbs.; on the 18th two were operated on, and 45 lbs. were obtained ; on the 20th four were cleared, and 98 lbs. of pure clover honejr left the cells, and delighted the eyes of all beholders. These operations were performed without the loss of twenty bees per stock ; the brood was quite uninjured, except through an accident when shaving the heads of some honey cells, which was not, from any fault of the machine, but from the care- lessness of the operator ; the combs were, in many instances, considerably improved by the revolutions they had undergone, and in no single instance were they injured. Practical bar-frame hivists are aware that the combs in their hives, although built fairlj^ along the underside of the frame-bars, and well within the frames, sometimes present a crooked appear- ance, when viewed from above. The removal of the quilt (for we have tabooed the crown- board as an abomination, and use quilts only) often reveals the appearance here portrayed, the frame-bars perfectly straight and with their edges well defined, but the combs as here shown in dotted lines, looking as crooked as rams'- horns, 3^et having a well-defined division be- tween them to enable the bees to pass along them. These protrusions are removed in the slinging operations ; and many pits, hillocks, and dells in the body of the get removed altogether, the outward pressure, when the force is applied, being sufficient to flatten them against the wirework of the revolving part of the machine. Some one may here quibble that a comb cannot be so flattened without distort- ing, and consequentl)' injuring, some of the cells—and this may be tr
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