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April 10, 1902. 



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tor, passes below into a tank, and there, while- 

 still warm and thin, goes through another 

 gravity-straining process: and, if uot yet sat- 

 isfactorily done, can be drawn from there and 

 put through cheese-cloth or other strainer. 



My separator, which has handled about a 

 thousand pounds of wax and over a ton of 

 honey this summer, is very well represented 

 in Fig. 2. The bottom is about '2x7 inches, 

 the top about 6x9, and the depth about 7 

 inches. There should be at the very least an 

 inch from the bottom of the body of the wax 

 to the bottom of the partition C. That will 

 make sure that neither wax nor sediment gets 

 under to float out with the honey. The flar- 

 ing shape is to make the wax remnant easily 

 removable when cooled, and to get the neces- 

 sary depth without having an undue amount 

 of honey in the separator, which must be 

 there all the time. Possibly a much smaller 

 arrangement will do as well; and if so, the 

 honey and wax remnants always left over 

 from one day to the next would be very nomi- 

 nal indeed. I think mine carries less than 2 

 pounds of wax, and it has handled well-nigh 

 200 pounds in a day — would handle much 

 more if it could be melted and delivered to it. 

 Each morning the wax remnant should be re- 

 moved and put back to remelt. This keeps 

 the sediment from accumulating. The honey 

 remnant need not be changed for days and 

 weeks. 



This is a decided success. I feel that I have 

 at last developed at lea.st one invention that 

 will be useful to apiculture. 



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[While you do not say anything about it in 

 your article, I should imagine the same outfit 

 would be very handy during extracting time. 

 Suppose, for instance, the honey from the- 

 honey-extractors ran direct into compartment 

 A; wax cappings, dead bees, refuse dirt of 

 every description, would remain in A until 

 the surplus would overflow at the wax outlet, 

 while the clear, nice honey would pass under 

 the partition C, and flow out of the honey- 

 outlet as shown in the diagram. — Editor ] — 

 (ileanings in Bee-Culture. 



Temperature for Extracting Honey. 



If too hot the combs are tender and easily 

 broken ; if too cold the honey will not leave 

 the comb. T. P. Robinson says in the Lone 

 Star Apiarist: 



If the operator discovers that they are too- 

 warm to extract with ijracticability, just let 

 him place them in a cool place so that they 

 will cool to a point where the combs will be 

 tougher, and then extract and place in the 

 hive where the bees will clean off all honey 

 and redeposit it. It is not a very desirable 

 job to extract when it is too hot. In the hot- 

 test summer days, the best time to gather 

 combs is early in the morning, placed in a* 

 cool place, and extracted after the bee-heat 

 has departed. 



Did you ever extract honey '20 degrees be- 

 low freezing, just at Christmas * I have, and 

 it is a job, unless you are prepared and know 

 your business. I do not know that I know so 

 much alwut it, or know my business so well, 

 but here is the way I proceeded to success: 



I gathered my combs when it was so cold 

 that a bee dropped to the ground would be as 

 stiff as a poker in :iO seconds, and placed them 

 separately in a closed room and raised the 

 temperature of the room to ll."> degrees. I 

 allowed the combs to remain about sevea 

 hours in the hot room, and then proceeded tO' 

 extract them in the ordinary way. 



Cuban honey, 



'■ Rambler ■' says in (ileanings in Bee-Cul- 

 ture: 



As nearly as I can learn as to the Cuban 

 •rop for the past year, it has been equal to- 

 if not more than the (Mlifornia yield. 



I doubt it California ever produced 10,000,- 

 OUO pounds; but I am credibly informed that, 

 before the War, when there were more api- 

 aries than at present, the product was over 

 that amount in Cuba. 



A marked difference in the yields of Cali- 

 fornia and Cuba is that the former often has 



