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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



November 



ly into moulds and set outside to cool; 

 and as there is no .sedimont to clean 

 from the bottom of cakes of wax thus 

 made, and the fact that before mould- 

 ing it is kept at a high teniperatur>% 

 beautiful cakes result. 



During the excellent flow of honey 

 then on, Mr. P. was extracting in an 

 open tent. The process being as fol- 

 lows: With wheelbarrow and carrying 

 box handy, as shown in our sn.all en- 

 graving, the hive was opened ind a 

 frame removed. After dislodging the 

 greater part of the adhering bees by 

 shaking, the frame is rested upon the 

 other frames, while Mr. P. at the right 

 and his assistant at the left, each pro- 

 vided with strong feathers, quickly 

 brush the bees into the hive. By thus 

 brushing both sides at the same time, 

 there is little chance for dodging from' 

 side to side, and it is readily cleared, 

 and passes to the hands of the assistant, 

 who places it in the carrier while an- 

 other is withdrawn and treated as be- 

 fore. 



Mr. Poppleton has a home-made un- 

 capping device which works very satis- 

 factorily; being a box of the same size 

 as the hive, the frames, when ready for 

 the extractor, hang nicely within, so 

 that all drip falls into the cappings 

 and passes through a screen upon 

 which the cappings rest, and into a 

 tank below which is provided with a 

 gate for drawing of the accumulation 

 of honey. It is inounted at a conven- 

 ient height for the operator, upon 

 legs. This Mr. Poppleton calls the 

 "decapper," a very convenient and sig- 

 nificant appellation. Here is, obvious- 

 ly, an opportunity for those who seek 

 to improve the bee-keepers' vocabu- 

 lary. Decapper should supercede "un- 

 capping can," or "uncapping box." 



Mr. Poppleton uses no tank. The 

 honey is transferred from the extractor 

 directly to the barrels which convey it 

 to the markets, a modus operandi which 

 may not be unsuccessful in such skillful 

 hands, but which the novice should not 

 attempt. 



Fort Pierce, Fla., Oct. i8, 1902. 



"Official figures at the Chamber of 

 Commerce show that there were about 

 100 cars shipped from San Deigo coun- 

 ty last season, says the Julian Miner, in 

 reference to the output of honey from 

 this portion of California. 



Putting Up Extracted Honey for 

 the Retail Trade, a 



(By R. C. Aiken.) 



Delivered at the Denver Convention of the Na- 

 tional Bee-Keepers' Association. 



WITH many this is a burning 

 question. For .several years 

 there has been a subdued and 

 smoldering fire going, sometimes a 

 good sized smoke and considerable 

 darkness, now and then enough light 

 to let us see what the smoke was 

 about. Well, I think there has been 

 some of the brethren around poking 

 the fire to make the blaze shoot up on 

 high so that those at a distance could 

 see, and I have a suspicion that that 

 Irishman and Stone man from Toledo, 

 Ohio, assisted by that other Irishman 

 from Flint, Mich., has been putting up 

 a job on me. Just think of it, after all 

 the rumpus I have had with the Ohio 

 Fowls and others, then to cap the cli- 

 max ask me to treat this subject be- 

 fore this body of the wit and wisdom 

 of the land, and me to prepare in ad- 

 vance what I have to say and send a 

 sample of the whole thing to that Chi- 

 cago Irishman so he could come pre- 

 pared to lick me. But, brethren and 

 sisters, I am still up on the "ridge 

 pole" and as happy as an owl, and I 

 will bet that I can fight just as long in 

 this high altitude as all three of the 

 other Irishmen, so up goes my sleeves 

 and now watch the sparks fly. 



You want to know how to put up ex- 

 tracted honey for retail, do you? Well, 

 ask Yor-rick; he will tell you to find 

 the Root of the matter in his catalog 

 printed down at Medina, and when 

 you have found that the price of one 

 pound glass jars is almost four cents 

 each at New York, Philadelphia and 

 Cincinnati, and even four cents each at 

 Indianapolis, just send in an order and 

 put your honey up in these. Jones 

 pays the freight on these jars, and 

 stands breakage, of course the supply 

 dealer could not do it. You see that 

 your honey is thoroughly liquid, if any 

 granulates, melt them, and as the 

 wholesale price of extracted honey de- 

 livered in Chicago is five to six cents — 

 call it six, then deduct three-fourths of 

 a cent a pound for freights (that's the 

 car rate to Chicago), and another 

 three-fourths for cans in which to ship 



