THE BEE-KEEPERS" REVIEW 303 



A Black Painted House avS a Capping Melter 



E. T. BAINARD, Lambert, Ontario. 



•j ^ U R I X G extracting we have very little time to work with 

 JZI/ capping nielters, and if we have some good S3'stem of drain- 

 ing most of the honey from the cappings, there will be less 

 honey to be injured in the capping melter. My uncapping boxes 

 are about ten inches deep and thirty inches square, made of thin 

 lumber with a wire cloth bottom to hold up the cappings, and a sec- 

 ond bottom of tin to convey away the honey. These boxes of cap- 

 pings are not left long in the honey house ; they are taken out and 

 put in a small building in the back yard that stands all day in the 

 hot sun. This building is built to absorb the heat, thin lumber on 

 the south side, double packed walls on the north side, and all 

 painted black. Built in this way it will become very warm inside, 

 but not hot enough to melt the cappings. The honey will continue 

 to drain from the cappings for a long time, as they are kept warm. 

 During the season of 1911 I experimented by melting a box of cap- 

 pings that had remained to drain in the honey house. They con- 

 tained 46 per cent honey. A similar box of cappings was placed in 

 the black house to drain ; they only contained 23 per cent honey, or 

 a gain of 50 per cent over the honey house draining. Another box 

 of cappings was left in the honey house until they were cold; then 

 taken out and put in the hothouse and pressure applied, but with 

 poor results, as only about 07 per cent more honey was secured. 

 This black building was built separate from other buildings that I 

 might experiment with artificial heat at night, but it has been found 

 that extra heat is not necessary, and I would now rather have the 

 building up against the south side of the honey house and a door 

 cut through to make it handier. 



Heating Honey Before Granulation — to Prevent It 



By C. H. ROOT. Redbank, N. J. 



^^^ R. A. AIOTTAZ, in his article in the April Review, wishes 

 ^^^ more information about heating honey. He speaks of Mr. 

 Sires' article. I remember the article and from my view- 

 point it is sound. I will give my way of heating. 



Unless there is a very good reason my honey will never be al- 

 lowed to granulate again. I think it is l)est to heat the honey before 

 it is allowed to granulate at all. T have seen some of my clover 

 honey that was a year old. that had been heated before granulating, 

 just as clear as when first heated. I use a fifteen-gallon gas heated 

 jacketed kettle, the outfit costing about nineteen dollars, not in- 



