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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Oct. 18, 190. ■ 



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Tll6H0I16l)B6e 



Revised by Dadant— 1899 Edition. 



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„,,.l!rBEEPOM BOILED] 



Bleaching Comb Honey. 



Build a bleaching-house by placing' 

 posts 2x4 or 4x4 in the g^round, 5 feet 

 apart on all sides, making it 10 feet 

 square and 7 feet hig'h. Put on plates 

 and roof. Build up around the bottom 

 with lumber 2 feet high from the 

 ground, making it bee-tight. Put in 

 your shelves between the posts, mak- 

 ing them 4 inches wide, and placing 

 them 6 inches apart, one above the 

 other. Place these shelves entirely 

 around your bleaching-house, then 

 cover the outside, from the lumber at 

 the bottom to the plate, with the 

 lightest house-lining. Seal overhead 

 with cloth or lumber. Leave the space 

 between the sealing and roof open so 



as to keep your house as cool as pos- 

 sible. 



Place a screen-door in one corner, as 

 seen in the sketch. Locate a work- 

 table, 3x6, in the center of 3'our bleach- 

 ing-house, for cleaning and packing on. 



The best way to build a sulphuring- 

 box is to take a stovepipe 8 feet long, 

 with an elbow at one end. Place the 



pipe under ground about 8 inches deep, 

 letting the elbow come up above 

 ground in one corner of your bleach- 

 ing-house. For the otitside end of the 

 pipe take an old coal-oil can and cut a 

 hole in the side sufficiently large to 

 admit the stovepipe. Cut about half 

 of the top of the can out square to 

 allow you to put in your sulphur and 

 for draft ; then make a box just the 

 size of a super, but four times deeper. 

 Place the box over the elbow on the 

 ground, in the corner of your bleach- 

 ing-house, as seen in the sketch. 



We are now ready for business. 

 When you take off full supers of honey 

 from the hives, carry them into your 

 bleaching-house and place on the sul- 

 phuring-box ; build up ten or twelve 

 high. Put a heaping tablespoonful of 

 sulphur in an old tin plate or pan, and 

 place it in the oil-can and start it to 

 burning. In this way you get the full 

 benefit of your sulphur, as it enters 

 the super in every row of sections and 

 passes from super to super. Some 

 may ask why I have the sulphur so far 

 from the honey. Why not put it 

 directly over it ? The reason is, I 

 have tried that, and the consequence 

 was I had a lot of comb honey that be- 

 came hot enough to begin to settle in 

 the sections, and also turned them 

 dark at the bottom of the sections. To 

 get the best results, keep your honey 



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SULPHUR 



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as cool as possible when sulphuring. 

 After the sulphur that you have put in 

 your box has burned out, turn your 

 supers upside down on your table : 

 take out the honey and clean ; and as 

 you clean place on the shelves side by 

 side, the honey facing the outside. Let 

 it remain about 24 hours in daylight, 

 then reverse, putting the other side of 

 the section out to the light, lj When my 



