Vol. XI 



Published Monthly by The W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co. 

 MAY, 1901 



No. 5 



EXTRACTED HONEY. 



Advantages of Artificial Curing Explained 

 — An Expedient System of Treatment 

 Described — A Very Interesting Article. 



BY W. S. HAKT 



AS is well known by the older- 

 readers of the bee-journals who 

 have read my writings for the 

 past twenty-five years, I am a thorough 

 believer in the; curing of extracted 

 honey after it is taken from the hive, 

 both as a means of securing a more uni- 

 formly high-grade article and as a means 

 of largely increasing the crop. With 

 a view to the further development of 

 means to this end through exciting an 

 interest in the active mind^ of the 

 younger generation of apiarists, I here 

 give a brief state ment of my processes, 

 their results and my conclusions. 



For some years I exposed the honey 

 to the full heat of the sun by placing it 

 in large tanks, painted black, covered 

 with fine tinned wire netting and placed 

 on trucks that ran on an iron track, 

 leading outside the honey-house onto a 

 long platform. These tanks were run 

 out hot days and housed at night, and 

 served their purpose fairly well. They 

 had drawbacks, however, such as requir- 

 ing a close watch on the weather and 

 the necessity of being at hand to 

 trundle them under cover in case of 

 rain; their limited capacity ; their lia- 

 bility to overflow when moved etc. To 



obviate these troubles I built a room ad- 

 joining the honey-house, covered it with 

 glass and put in an evaporator made of 

 tin, in which the honey ran slowly from' 

 side to side in a thin stream four inches 

 wide, a distance of about 110 feet, under 

 the full heat of the summer sun. My ex- 

 tracting is done in the second story of the 

 honey-house. The faucet of the extractor 

 is over one end of a tank of about thirteen 

 hundred pounds" capacity, into which 

 the honey is strained. Through a 

 faucet in the bottom of this tank the 

 honey is allowed to run to the evapora- 

 tor in any sized stream desired. Beneath 

 the evaporator is a like tank on trucks, 

 resting on tracks so that it can be rolled 

 to where the honey can be run from a 

 faucet at the bottom of the tank directly 

 into barrels or cans, as desired. This 

 arrangement has a far greater capacity 

 for handling honey rapidly in quantities 

 than the other and its workings have 

 proven to be fairly satisfactory during 

 my experience of the past sixteen years 

 of its use. The least I can say of it is 

 that it is the best arrangement that I 

 have yet seen and has, I am sure, 

 brought me some hundreds of dollars 

 through enabling me to safely take up 

 my honey and extract it when one-third 

 capped, thereby saving much of the 

 labor of extracting as well as the ex- 

 pense of the bees clustering for many 

 hours in the hive at the height of the 

 honey-tlow to secrete wax that requires 

 from twelve to twenty times more of 



