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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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2 In. Pipe fo Tank^ 



/zln. Pipe from Pump - 



J--X , Coarse Strainer 



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Ptttit 



Water Jacketed K 



Heating Tank with Oil i 



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Screened Window V/, 





Covered dtorage Tank 



Can filler. 



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where but in the one box (all the sticky 

 mess in the one box), and no handling of 

 any tiling but the honey as it drains off, 

 and the cakes of clean wax as they come 

 from the wax-separator. 



I have been much pleased with the Sever- 

 in wax-separator. The honey is separated 

 from the wax at once, and the wax is pro- 

 duced in clean uniform cakes free from 

 slumgum or honey, and ready for the mar- 

 ket. It means something not to have to re- 

 melt and mold from three to five hundred 

 pounds of wax yearly. 



The engravings show the arrangement of 

 my extracting-house. From the power ex- 

 tractor the honey is pumped to an elevated 

 water- jacketed lieater-tank. I was unable 



to operate the pump satisfactorily on our 

 thick cold honey until it was connected with 

 tlie extractor-shaft by chain and sprockets, 

 and then it had to work. As the honey 

 comes from the jDump it jjasses through a 

 coarse-mesh screen in the top of the heater- 

 tank, wliich catches any large bits of comb, 

 etc. 



Being heated in this tank to about 100 

 degrees it will readily pass through a fine 

 cheese-cloth strainer. I prefer the Pettit 

 improved square strainer, which has eight 

 square feet of straining surface, nearly all 

 of it vertical. It is illustrated in the 'Re- 

 view for Jan., 1910. It is far ahead of the 

 round Pettit strainer or any other I have 

 tried. I use it with an additional, very 



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Empty 

 Supers 



Extracting £nd. 

 Storage for filled 

 and Empty Supers. 



Uncapping 



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'Drain 



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Uncapping Storage 



f2]Boiler for Steam Knift ' 



Floor PlaN of Honey House. 



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