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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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S. A. Niver's arrangement for heating honey as it runs from the extractor so that it may be easily 



strained through cheese-cloth. 



orado State Beekeepers' Association. This 

 law iDassed the Houses, and was signed by 

 the Governor, who, however, cut the ap- 

 propriation down two-thirds. 



Mr. Skinner is a small man, but corres- 

 pondingly active. He is reputed to be a 

 progressive among progressives, and has 

 lived up to the name pretty well. The bee- 

 men could not hoije for a better helper in 

 the legislature in securing recognition for 

 the beekeeping industry of Colorado. 



At our 1912 spring convention in Mont- 

 rose, Mr. Skinner gave us many valuable 

 points on the proper methods of proced- 

 ure in order to secure apicultural legisla- 

 tion. We used his suggestions this wintei'. 

 He is a vei'v " likable " man. 



Boulder, Col. 



A DEVICE FOR STRAINING HONEY AT THE 

 TIME IT IS EXTRACTED 



BY S. A. XIVKK 



I was interested in the April issue of 

 Gleanings to note that the extracted-honey 

 producers are waking up to the need of 

 some way to strain honey through a cloth 

 fine enough to make it fit for table use. As 

 it comes from the extractor, it is too thick 

 to strain without heating. If run into the 

 five-gallon cans, and the cans set in hot 

 water, part of the honey gets too hot ; and, 

 besides, that takes a lot of work and both- 

 er, so they let it go, as a general rule. 



Then the salesman who repacks for the 

 retail trade has all that to do, and dislikes 

 it, for he must carry (|uite an outfit, which 



must be taken from town to town. He must 

 find a room suitable to work in, spend his 

 time heating, straining, and bottling, all of 

 which means extra cost to the consumer. 



Now that I have " reformed," and quit 

 the road work and gone back to my first 

 love (producing extracted honey), my 

 thought naturally turned to some kind of 

 invention that would heat the honey as it 

 left the extractor sufficiently to strain 

 through ten-cent cheese-cloth. I enclose a 

 picture of the device we made for that pur- 

 pose, and I will only say that it "gits thar," 

 even with our California honey, wliich the 

 editor l:as liad some experience with in past 

 years. 



It consists of a tank or trough 8 feet 

 long, 6 inches high, 8 inches wide, full of 

 water, with two conductor pir>es 3 inches 

 wide by 2 inches deep, placed inside, enter- 

 ing the end under the extractor faucet an 

 inch from the top, leaving the end next to 

 the storage-tank an inch from the bottom. 



This incline of the pipes, running through 

 8 feet of hot water, allows the honey to heat 

 until it is thin enough ; and as soon as it is 

 thin enough, and not before, it hikes along 

 to the strainer, which is ])laced above the 

 storage-tank. The two oil-burners will heat 

 the water in the trough in a few minutes; 

 then we turn one burner out entirely, and 

 turn the flame to half speed in the other. 

 The water is then about right to keep the 

 honey out of our way, even when two " ex- 

 lightning operators " are on the job. I had 

 to take the device out of the basement, 

 where it is suspended from the ceiling (as 

 we exti'nct on a floor above), for the light 



