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arranges the temperature and makes 

 uncertainty. The can of water can be 

 tempered before it is put in. As the 

 wax gets lower again I put in another 

 tank of water on the other side of the 

 wax tank. Keep on this way until 

 four tanks of water have been put in; 

 at which time there will remain onl3' 

 about a I'z-inch space of wax in the 

 center. The temperature of the water 

 should be slightly above the melting 

 point of wax. 



When the comb and honey is melted, 

 at first it is necessary to set the can 

 into another larger can containing 



water. It takes from three to five hours 

 with a hot fire to melt a batch in the 

 usual way. It takes me from 20 to 30 

 minutes to accomplish the same thing. 

 The bottoin of my comb-can has 60, /s 

 tubes extending upward containing 

 hot water. It would require two or 

 three days to form these tubes by hand 

 and then the result wonld be a "botch 

 job." I made a machine in four hours 

 that will make 400 of these tubes in 

 one hour, and be a very neat job, en- 

 tirely finished, while a dozen tinners 

 in Los Angeles say it is impossible. 

 Chatsworth, Calif., Nov. 10, 1906. 



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Northern Michigan, with its wildness, 

 and the establishment and manage- 

 ment of apiaries there, will certainly 

 add to my length of days It drives 

 from my ears the din of town; it soothes 

 my nerves; fills my soul with a quite 

 joy — takes me back to the days of my 

 childhood. 



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The Review does not have so many 

 pages and pictures, nor so full conven 

 tion reports, as do some of the journals ; 

 in short, it does not attempt to pattern 

 after any of them, excellent though they 

 be; it simply tries to be Use//; and, in 

 tis way, make itself helpful to those 

 who are keeping bees as a business. 

 To that class I believe it is worth many 

 times its cost, regardless of whether 

 the other journals are read or not. 



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M. V. Facey, of Preston, Minn., has 

 not written very much for publication, 

 but in a quiet way, he has, for several 

 years, been making money producing 



and selling extracted honej'; now he is 

 to tell the readers of the Review how 

 he does it. His first article will ap- 

 pear in Januar}'. 



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An Agreeable Experience is one that I 

 enjoj'ed coming home from the Chicago 

 convention — that of sitting in a 

 smoothly gliding dining car, a feast of 

 good things spread out on the table in 

 front of me, while the swirling flakes 

 of a snow storm whitened the fields 

 outside. 



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E F. Atwaler of Idaho, has, for several 

 j'ears, made his living entirel3' from 

 bee-keeping, running a series of out- 

 apiaries, some of them many miles 

 from home, and, in the January Re- 

 view, he will begin a series of articles 

 giving his experience in producing 

 both comb and extracted honey, par- 

 ticular attention being given to the 

 management or control of increase. 



