GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Fig. J. — Eleven colonies tipped off by accident 



more than 1800 or 2090 lbs. is extracted in 

 one day, the eappings may drain over niglit 

 and melting begin the next morning. 



I like this melter, because while it serves, 

 primarily, as an nncapi ing-box and drain- 

 er, getting out as much of the honey un- 

 heated as can drain out in the time allowed 

 for draining, which depends on the length 

 of the box and the rapidity of extracting, 

 there is no extra apparatus required for 



melting, and no hand- 

 ling of sticky, messy 

 eappings from one box 

 to another. 



The eappings are en- 

 tirely cleaned up in the 

 one machine, and with 

 proper wax-separators 

 the cakes of wax may 

 be removed as they cool. 

 The warm honey goes 

 into the strainer. 



In this locality the 

 nights are often so cool 

 that extracting eai'ly in 

 the morning is not prac- 

 ticable, as the honey will 

 not go through the 

 strainer. There are 

 many days, also, that 

 are so cool that honey 

 can not be thrown out 

 clean from the combs with the hand extract- 

 or. The power extractor will throw out the 

 thick honey, ard I am planning to heat all 

 my honey, next season, before it goes into 

 the strainer. Our thick alfalfa honey, when 

 cold, goes through the strainer slowly and 

 clogs up the cloths very quickly, and the 

 gravity strainer is not practical for our use. 

 Has anybody used such a heater ? 



Localitv is such a varving factor that 



Fig. 5. — Load of supers secured with a rope. 



