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can to place and screw down follower. I work the follower up 

 and down with the screw, putting on more pressure every time. I 

 don't use the lever at first, not until I want to screw it down to 

 leave a minute or so, while I do some of the little odd jobs that 

 are to be done, or boil out more frames, if working alone. I gen- 

 erally raise the follower and stir up the "mulligan" with a slick a 

 couple of times for each batch. From fifteen to thirt}'-five minutes 

 will get out all the wax obtainable with profit, depending upon 

 what churning, etc., it gets. 



Pour the water and wax out while press is still screwed down 

 tight, by tipping press up on a six-inch block and pouring into a 

 tub or pan. I have a five-gallon can with a honey can gate soldered 

 on the bottom, that I pour the water and wax into and draw off 

 water at the bottom and put it back into the tank. I have poured 

 the wax in cans to cool and then melt up again at my leisure and 

 have poured it into a wash boiler held in the big lank and kept 

 hot until full and then allowed to cool, but I believe I prefer the 

 first method. One should not work outdoors if it can be helped, as 

 it is too cold to work wax well or if warm there are too many bees 

 around, except after night, which is not the best time to work, 

 being, in fact, a pretty fair time to do a little sleeping. 



Too much honey in the combs is bad, as it leaves everything 

 sticky, and besides, the wax does not do as well. A little honey 

 does no harm, in fact, seems sometimes to help a little. 



While working alone, packing water in a bucket and chopping 

 wood, I have pressed out about thirty-five or forty pounds of wax 

 in a day and cleaned up about 200 frames with a proportionate 

 number of eight by ten frame bodies. A good many frames which 

 have had moth in them are harder to clean on account of the web 

 and also having less wax. I do not remember what tvv'o of us did 

 accomplish, Init two work together to better advantage than one, 

 as one can tend the tank and one the press. T generally closely 

 approximate three pounds of wax to a hive body, as they come eight 

 and ten frames mixed. Everything working hand'Jy and going 

 sm.oothly. I can get out from eight to ten pounds of wax about 

 everv thirtv-fi\'e minutes. 



Selling Honey By Direct Methods 



By F. B. CAVANAGH, Director N. B. K. A., Heborn, Ind. 



B'cad at ilic Xorthcni Mtchignii Xatiena! Meet, in March. 



• •Jl X presenting a paper on this subject I realize that I shall 



Jl necessarily overthrow some orthodox ideas. However, if I 



did not do this my paper would not only fail in its interest, 



but would be lacking in value. What I shall have to sav will be 



