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July, 1919 



Talks to Beginners. — Continued from Page 462 



expense. The honey that drains out of the 

 mappings falls, of course, into the tub be- 

 neath. When one tub is full the barrel can 

 be lifted over an empty one, and the work 

 continued. 



Between the uncapping barrel and the 

 outside door should be a generous space for 

 the storing of two sets of supers — the full 

 supers on the one hand and the empty supers 

 on the other. 



The Straining Can. 



One of the very best arrangements for 

 straining honey is a large cheesecloth bag, 

 the larger the better, up to a point almost 

 as large as the tank itself. This should be 

 tacked to four cross-cleats at the top of the 

 can, and in the bottom of the bag there 

 should be a heavy wire hoop to keep the 

 cloth from floating. 



No honey should be drawn off from the 

 tank into cans until the tank itself is near- 

 ly full. The impurities in the honey consist 

 of bits of cappings and wax, nearly all of 

 which are lighter than the honey itself, and 

 therefore float to the top. In this way the 

 cloth does not quickly become clogged with 

 the impurities, the honey itself being clari- 

 fied largely on the gravity' principle. Such 

 a strainer will not have to be cleaned for 

 days. If a cloth is merely stretched over the 

 top of the can and the honey poured thru 

 it, it will clog up within an hour or two so 

 that a fresh one will have to be substituted. 



There is no time in the whole beekeeping 

 year when a man has such cause to be en- 

 thusiastic as when that never-ending, steady 

 hum amounting almost to a roar indicates 

 that the bees are fairly tumbling over them- 

 selves in their eagerness to bring in more 

 and more honey ;^and when that honey, just 

 thrown from the combs, runs down the side 

 of the extractor in a layer almost an inch 

 thick, truly it is a time when it is good to 

 be alive — a time when even the grouchiest 

 pessimist brightens up and becomes enthusi- 

 astic. 



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