June, 1910. 



American Vae Journal 



all times for fast work. Do not 

 die " with a tomato-can or an oi 

 etc. 



Fig. 3 shows one of my spoons, 

 a narrow lip, and bent handle, 

 latter enables me to hang it over 



Fig. 3.— ScnoLL's Wa.x-Spoon. 



edge of the pan, always in reach, and 

 in;'er in the u'ax, as shown in Fig. 2. 

 The narrowed lip is made by beating 

 with a hammer, and guides the wax 

 into a narrow stream. The size is large 

 enough to hold enough wax to fasten 

 one sheet with each spoonful. It is a 

 very common tin soup-spoon, and costs 

 10 cents a dozen. 



Now the rack (Fig. 4) receives an in- 

 verted frame as indicated by the dotted 

 lines. A full sheet of foundation is 

 laid inside of it, the slanting guide- 

 board placing it centrally in the top- 

 bar. A spoon of melted wax runs 



Fig. 4.— Scholl's Frame-Rack. 



down the incline and fastens it. While 

 this is cooling another is fixed on the 

 second board, then another on the 

 third. Now the first is removed to 

 the empty super to the left of the opera- 

 tor, and another frame is put in its 

 place on the rack, and so on all day 

 long, or filling thousands of frames 

 with full sheets of foundation. 



.\s the supers become empty on the 

 right of the operator, they are placed 

 to the left and refilled again, making it 

 necessary to begin with only one empty 

 super at the start. 



Contributed Articles 



Chunk, Section and Extracted 

 Honey 



BY DR. G. BOHRER. 



On page 51 of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal, Mr. T. A. Crabill takes exceptions 

 to the production of chunk honey, on 

 the ground that it is going back to 

 where our fathers stood 7.5 or more 

 years ago. And as far as putting honey 

 into bulk with combs broken, he is en- 

 tirely correct; but the honey is now 

 taken from the hives as surplus and 

 put up in receptacles prepared for the 

 purpose of putting honey upon the 

 market. He fails to report in detail 

 the difference between bulk honey as 

 now put upon the market and 7-5 years 

 ago. Then, dark combs lined with 

 cocoons, wormy cells containing pol- 

 len, and not infrequently larvae and 



mature dead bees, were found. All of 

 this occurred on account of the honey 

 being taken from the brood-nest, where 

 dark and white comb containing honey, 

 pollen and larvae, were almost insep- 

 arable. 



It was then the general custom to 

 suffocate the bees over a brimstone 

 pit, or to get honey from trees in which 

 absconding bees had taken up quar- 

 ters, and, as a rule, an undesirable mass 

 was, and is yet, obtained in all such 

 cases. Such a thing as extracted honey 

 was not known. Such pieces of comb 

 as presented such an uninviting appear- 

 ance as would render it certain that no 

 one would think of masticating and 

 appropriating it as food, were some- 

 times put into a sack, put through the 

 squeezing process, and what was called 

 "strained honey" was obtained. It 

 often contained pollen, I know to be a 



