Capper's Farmer

Build an Inexpensive HONEY EXTRACTOR

As animal husbandry costs go, the price of bees and beekeeping supplies is quite a bargain, but setting up an apiary still runs into money if you have many colonies. My husband, Dwayne, and I got into a home honey operation several years ago, and from the start, we tried to reduce expenses by making some of our own equipment.

We found, for example, that we could save substantially by building our own bee housing. We bought our first hive and super, and Dwayne made the rest using the commercial products for patterns so that the parts of all

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