December. 1918 



GLEANINGS IN BEK CULTURE 



717 



Adams & Myers have a trade that ealls for 

 honey in bulk in the liquid form. While 

 they sell lioney by the carload, they also 

 sell it in 1- and 5-gallon cans. This retail 

 trade wants its honey in bulk, but it wants 

 it so it will pour; so they devised the ajti^ar- 

 atus shown in Figs. 3 and 4. The honey is 

 pumped from the bottom of the extractor 

 into the galvanized washtub shown at the 

 top of the i)ictnres. The pipe line is shown 

 in Fig. 4. The honey runs from the tub into 

 what is virtually a large Peterson eapping- 

 melter. This is an oblong pan with a double 

 bottom filled with water. A Standard Oil 

 kerosene stove beneath keeps the water hot 

 in the pan above. The honey runs from the 

 galvanized tub; and as it runs along the 

 bottom of the pan it is heated. While hot it 

 readil.y runs thru the strainer of cheese- 

 cloth tied over the top of the galvanized 

 can which in the picture shows right next 

 to the carpenter's handsaw. The hot honey 

 readily runs into a large receiving-tank 

 whence it is drawn off into five-gallon cans 

 and sealed. 



This apparatus is about as near perfec- 

 tion as anything I have ever seen. The hon- 

 ey from Adams & Myers goes to their cus- 

 tomers in liquid form, and it stays that way. 

 Their local and retail trade has learned to 

 use honey in bulk. 



Making Nuclei from Bees Collecting in 

 the Honey House, 



In nearly every extracting-house, after 

 the combs have been extracted for a day or 

 two there will be an accumulation of bees in 

 some corner of the building, usually near 

 the window or screen. Adams & Myers em- 

 l)loy a scheme of putting a nucleus with two 

 or three frames of brood near this bunch of 

 bees. Very shortly the bees will go in and 

 occupy the combs. When the nucleus is full, 

 it is removed and another one put in its 

 place. In this way no bees are lost. 



Fig. 5 shows a corner of Adams & Myers' 

 extracting-room, and at the upper right-hand 

 corner near the top is a nucleus covered 

 with a piece of burlap. This was the first 

 time I ever saw this scheme worked out. 

 Other beekeepers let their bees starve, as 



Fig. 3. — This picture should be studied in connection with Fig:. 4. The honey is pumped from the extractor 

 into the washtub above; passes into a double-bottom water pan beneath, the water being kept hot by means 

 of a Standard Oil kcrobciic stove .iust beneath the pan. (The honey is heated as it passes over this double 

 bottom, slriuned as it runs thru the tank at the left, and finally runs into a large receiving-iank below. 



