CANDIED HONEY. 



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CANDIED HONEY. 



As will be seen from the illustration, Mr. 

 Dayton makes use of second-hand kerosene- 

 cans, which may be purchased for live cents 

 apiece. He cuts off the top at a convenient 

 height, then washes out the cans thoroughly. 

 For the purposes of liquefying he uses eight 

 on top of an oi'dinary cook-stove. To keep 

 the honey from burning he gets some band 

 iron, iXrs, at some hardware store, and 

 makes a series of hoops on which the cans 

 are to stand while heating. Eight of them 



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DOUULE noiLh-li FOK LIQUEFYING HONEY. 



are placed together as shown; when, to 

 conserve the heat further, a tin cover large 

 enough to slip down over the whole is pro- 

 vided. 



With the help of this outfit Mr. Dayton 

 says he can melt up 200 lbs. of honey in a 

 very short time. We should like to suggest 

 that these cans would be more convenient to 

 liandle were he to take heavy wire, make 

 some bails and hook them into holes punched 



DAYTON'S OUTFIT FOR LIQUEFYING CAN- 

 DIED HONEY. 



on two opposite sides He would then have 

 a very serviceable pail at a small cost ; and, 

 when the honey was melted, he could lift it 

 off the stove and pour it into some other re- 

 ceptacle from the corner of the cans. This 



corner makes the finest kind of pitcher 

 mouth, avoiding any spilling of the honey. 



MELTING UP HONEY^ IN A CAPPING-MELTER. 



Under the head of " Extractors," pages 

 186 and 187, we describe the use of capping- 

 melters with a set of illustrations. This 

 outfit is also well adapted for melting ui) 

 candied honey, especially candied comb hon- 

 ey. Ordinary candied extracted will run 

 through it very readily without any danger 

 at all of impairing the fla- 

 vor, and, what is more, it 

 will be strained in the pro- 

 cess. In the case of can- 

 died comb honey, the wax 

 and honey will be very 

 nicely separated by the de- 

 vice shown on page 187 ; in 

 fact, when comb honey can- 

 dies, we do not know what 

 > else to do with it except to 

 run it through a capping- 

 melter, selling the honey 

 for what it will bring as 

 extracted and the wax at 

 its market price. If the 

 capping - machine is prop- 

 erly handled the quality of neither the wax 

 nor the honey will be in any wise affected, 

 and the combined price of the two will prob- 

 ably exceed what one could obtain if he 

 attempted to sell, if he could at all without 

 melting up. 



Under Extracted Honey, sub-head 

 Bottling Honey", will be found several 

 other devices for melting up honey that 

 might likewise be used to advantage. 



CAUSE OF GRANULATION. 



As already stated, the primal cause is al- 

 ternating cold and warm weather. At any 

 very cold temperature, prolonged for days, 

 honey probably would not candy at all, but 

 chill into a hard waxy mass, readily soften- 

 ing again in a warm atmosphere. As some 

 honeys differ chemically, it may be assumed 

 that some other cause operates to bring 

 about the solid condition than wai;m and 

 cold changes. Just what that is, we do not 

 know; only we do know that stirring or vio- 

 lent agitation hastens granulation ; and we 

 also know that, if some granulated honey is 

 mixed with ordinary liquid extracted, the 

 latter will candy much more rapidly ; for 

 when honey once stai-ts to granulate, the pro- 

 cess goes on very rapidly, although it may 

 take from ten days to six months for the 

 honey to pass entirely from the liquid con- 

 dition into the solid. 



