Show IN THE APIARY account of Ext meting honey from box hive A california apiarist who waked iver an old apiary the past season and extracted more than 1000 pounds of oney mey from the old boxes gave his ex leri mience ence through the american bee burnal as follows I 1 cut four pieces of lath A A A A be ie length of the hive frames and a adt eat ba B an inch square squaire and as long as ie e width of the frames and a small beat sat C the same lengrand leng length tand and tail nail em together as shown in the il lustra on and along the outer edges of the adside lath drive some sin 1 nails mat bout three inches apart letting the eads ads project one quarter inch apala A pair I 1 these pallets ballets will be needed and if ne lehaman has an assistant two pairs will be quiren qu ired I 1 now cut the combs to fit toe the humes frames 9 nearly as practicable and lay a piece n i the pallet so as to rest against the leat eat B and if there is is room boom I 1 put anther nicee on the pallet resting against ie first pieced I 1 now uncap the upper 0 L 11 F I 1 I 1 USED V TS IN eide de of these pieces and with a clamp ID I D D I 1 fasten each piece vy by laying the lamp across the piece near its up upper per md ad and hoot book it over the projecting ails the clamp should be narrow bough nough to th bind rather tightly on an the amb I 1 then lift the pallet by the c cleat T t and set itin the extractor abtey af exacting I 1 turn the comb on the aa pallet let neap cap and extract the other side any y ain board will answer for the pallets ballets istead listeid of lath but the lighter the beta for fastening these extracted combs n i the frames I 1 use the olampe I 1 do ot amow but beekeepers bee keepers generally have aed sed such clamps but as far as I 1 know hey ley use pegs strings and other deviow device fl anally nualla unhandy there is an aban jance ance of wire suitable for making clamps ying ring around here that has been u used ed in ung aling hay the clamps should b ejust arge age enough to go over the outside of ie frames from top to bottom As soon is s the combs comba are stuck by the bees th the lamps can be taken off ca and used again sorting potatoe Pot atoe A respondent correspondent of the practical TAMU anner says gays that this operation may ay b be lade easy easa by constructing a box 19 12 feet nig and 4 feet wide like the illos ration with three partitions the ack piece should be about 4 feet high I 1 tr gl 2 POTATO ie next 8 3 feet and the next au 13 etl high cm fo nt them thein rather close together on the first st incline and farther apart on the cond this sorts them in three grades rovel them on the topper arst incline and d poke ih chent M down 7 and TOM yon have ve them lem sorted in three graeb |