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wishes, one can cover the bottom of 

 the wire coil with a cloth, and tie it 

 by wrapping a string around the wire 

 coil and cloth. I don't often use the 

 cloth because it is a little more work 

 to tie it on. When the day's work is 

 done, remove the wire coil, which 

 should have a string around it so it 

 won't unroll. Take a screw driver and 

 push out the cappings and scrape the 

 bits of comb, cappings, and so forth, 

 from the inside of the coil of wire. 

 Put it back in the can and press in 

 some more cappings, then it is ready 

 for use again. 



It does not need washing often. 



The honey should fall into the mid- 

 dle of this coil of wire. 



If it does not strain well, use another 

 coil of wire, and roll it until there are 

 thicknesses of wire enough so it tuill 

 do good work. 



If it does not strain fast enough, 

 make one a little bigger around, or 

 higher; either one; it will not have to 

 be very large. 



It may appear to some that this will 

 not do good work. If so, just try it 

 and see. 



I set the strainer in a flat-bottomed 

 funnel, the funnel leads the honey into 

 the honey can, to the honey can that 

 rests on a pair of scales that weighs 

 the honey in the can and strainer, and 

 when the desired weight is on the 

 scales the scales trip to a trigger that 

 sets a machine running, that runs by 

 weights, and rings a bell and shuts the 

 honey gate every time the can is full. 

 By using many thicknesses of the wire 

 cloth, although it may be rather open 



Recs' strainer made from a roll 

 of wire cloth. 



or big meshes, it will strain or filter 

 the honey well. Seven thicknesses I 

 think about the right number, but more 

 or less can be used as desired ; but 

 the wire must stand upright, then it is 

 not likely to clog. It does not clog 

 with me. The can that the coil of 

 wire is in has a tight bottom and the 

 strained honey flows over the top of 

 the can through the wire into the fun- 

 nel. Sometimes the honey rises up 

 nearly to the top of the wire coil, and 

 strains all the way up. 



Lytle, Texas, Jan. 1, 1911. 



Queen-Excluders and the Buying of Queens by Specialists. 



E. F. ATWATER. 



^ HE article in the December, 1909, 

 4^]j Review, under this heading, asks 

 a few questions in regard to a sub- 

 ject with which I feel somewhat familiar. 



We have a very decided liking for 

 excluders in our extracting yards, and 

 after an extended experience with plain 

 excluders, mostly unbound, we prefer 



