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eluding gas pipe connections. The kettle is made of heavy sheet 

 iron (not steel) lined after being made. It has a capacity of about 

 forty gallons a day. Any size kettle can be used, but I would pre- 

 fer two kettles of the same size rather than one large one. With 

 another kettle the same size as the one I have, the capacity could 

 be increased to about seventy gallons a day. Gasoline could be used 

 if gas is not available. 



A small round glass thermometer about one-half inch in diam- 

 eter, and eight inches long, is used for testing the required degree 

 of heat. Ninety per cent of my honey has been heated to just 158 

 degrees. The honey should be stirred when using the thermometer, 

 as the top gets hotter than the bottom. The temperature of the 

 honey will raise about four degrees if left in the kettle after the gas 

 is turned ofif. There are several advantages in using gas or gaso- 

 line. It is under instant control, any degree of heat can be obtained, 

 and it is a time saver, as it needs no attention for three hours after 

 once started. 



The second heat takes only about two hours, as the water is 

 hot in the outer kettle. The expense of fuel is very small. Gas 

 costs $1.35 per thousand feet here. 



Comb Honey Grading and the Markets. 



By J. E. CRANE, Middlebury, Vt. 



ON page 42 of the Review, W. F. inquires as to whether honey 

 is sold by the pound or section and seems to be in doubt as to 

 the method usually pursued. I would sav that R. A. Uurnett 

 is right and almost as a un\'ersal rule it is Ixiught by the pound and 

 the retailer sells bv the sect'on. As a rule sections weigh a little 

 less than a pound, and it is quite to the advantage of the retailer to 

 buy and sell by the section or comb. 



Again he asks on next page : "What do you think of eight 

 grades of honey?" Let me say what I think, that eight grades are 

 too many — very many too many. While the bee-keeper notices a 

 great many nice distinctions between different sections and would 

 be. glad to have every section in a case look exactly like ever}^ other 

 section, yet it is on the whole more nice than wise to make them so. 

 There is not usually in our city markets more than two cents differ- 

 ence between our choice or No. 1 and a strictly fancy article, and 

 aot more than about two or three cents at the outside between the 

 choice and third grade. The fancy will weigh one or two pounds 

 to the case more than the No. 1, and as the retail dealer buys by 

 the pound and sells by the piece this cuts off his profit on that grade 



