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THE BEE-KEEPERS- REVIEW 



This winter all this is changed; and, 

 instead of my labels coming off and hav- 

 ing to be replaced, every one is in as 

 good condition when taken out as when 

 put in; and where I foolad away a half 

 day getting a few dozjn liquefied by the 

 old m.ethod, I can now liquefy at the rate 

 of six dozan an hour. This on a small, 

 four-hole No 8 stove. On a fair sized 

 range this could be doubled. 



My apparatus consists simply of a 

 wooden tray with wire do': i bDttom and 

 divided into spaces just wide enough to 

 bold a roAf of one-pound jars. 1 use the 

 narrow spaces because a wider space 

 will allow the wire cloth to sag and tip 

 up the tumblers or jars. Tne wire cloth 

 I am using is tne galvan Z3d wire, with 

 one-fourth inch mesh; but, no doubt the 

 ordinary painted wire cloth would serve 

 the purpose fully as well. 



A couple of short pieces of gas pipe 

 are laid on tne stove, and these raise the 



t-'ay about an inch when it is placed 

 thereon. 



It is best to nail strips of tin over the 

 wood where it comes nearest the heat to 

 keep it from burning, although a heat 

 sufficient to ignite the wood is rather 

 more than is best for liquefying the 

 honey. 



HAVE A CAUTION, HAVE A CARE, 



And now a word of caution: Don't 

 go away and leave it to take care of 

 itself, for, if you do, you'll find on your 

 return, that some of your honey is boiling 

 over, and a bad mess is on the stove, and 

 some spoiled honey is the result. Keep 

 watch; and as soon as the honey is clear 

 in a jar. remove it, and replace it with 

 another. Remember, a very short boiling 

 will spoil both the color and the flavor, 

 and it will boil much sooner than you 

 think. 



Barryton, Mich., Jan. 10, 1911. 



Handling More Bees in Producing Comb Honey 

 Than in Raising Extracted. 



M. A GILL. 



T7DIT0R Re- 

 -LJ view: — You 

 have asked me 

 to make a com- 

 parison of the 

 advantages and 

 disadvantage s 

 in the produc- 

 tion of comb 

 and extracted 

 honey. First, I 

 will say that, as 

 1 have not worked any for extracted 

 honey in the past ten years, I realize 

 I have gone behind in that b''anch 

 of the business, but I feel that I have 

 advanced some in the handling of bees 

 in large numbers in the production of 

 comb honey. 



I realize what a breeze I will start 

 around my ears when I say that I can 

 handle more bees, with two helpers, when 

 working for comb honey, than I can for 

 extracted. 



Of course, the extracting man will 

 come back with the bug-bear of ""swarm- 

 ing;" and. while some of it is true, it's 

 not the bug-bear that many think; as I 

 have had scarcely a prime swarm in the 

 air for ten years; and have handled from 

 five to fourteen hundred colonies during 

 that period. Of course, an occasional 

 after-swarm, or an August swarm, will 

 come out, but not enough to make any 

 account of. 



Before speaking of the methods for 

 controlling swarming, 1 will say it is 

 amusing to read from some quite wise 



