1898 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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cistern, was so much like distilled water that 

 few people would notice the difference. This 

 is a mistake. If you taste pure distilled water, 

 and then the best cistern water, you will notice 

 there is a vast difference. Rain water caught 

 direct from the clouds, in clean tin pans or 

 other dishes that will give no taste, is very 



HOME-MADE APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING DIS- 

 TII,I,ED WATER ON A COMMON STOVE. 



nearly as good as distilled water. Freshly 

 fallen snow, before it has had time to get full 

 of particles of dust and dirt, furnishes, when 

 melted, perhaps the nearest approach to dis- 

 tilled water of any thing. But rain water, 

 especially in hot weather, very soon becomes 

 more or less contaminated. Distilled water is 

 so different that many people do not like it at 

 first, saying it is too flat and insipid; but when 

 you get used to it, it is the most delicious 

 beverage the world ever produced; and the 

 principal thing that commends it to me is the 

 pure sweetness of the mouth and breath when 

 one drinks only distilled water. I am satisfied 

 it has a ver}- considerable effect in digestion — 

 at least where there is any difficulty or ten- 

 dency toward indigestion. Pure water is to 

 the physical man what just, pure, and honest 

 truth is to the moral and spiritual man. You 

 can not really appreciate either to its fullest 

 extent until you have had some experience 

 with the spurious article. 



Do you say, " Bro. Root, it may be an easy- 

 matter for you to pay 81.3 for a Sanitarj^ still, 

 just for the privilege of having distilled water 

 every day, all you want to drink. Is there no 

 cheaper way to get it ? " ? 



Yes, my friends, there is a cheaper way. If 

 the wash-boiler you use every day has a raised 

 cover, you can produce distilled water very 

 cheaply. Put the boiler on the stove, with 

 just a little water in it. Put the raised cover 

 on upside down. When the water in the 

 boiler begins to boil, the steam will settle on 

 the inside of the cover, and drop off at the 

 apex, which is, in this case, turned downward. 

 Fix a little basin to catch the water as it 

 trickles down, and you will have distilled 



water. But you will notice that the cover will 

 pretty soon become very hot. Pour some cold 

 water into it every little while, and, when 

 this cold water has become hot, put it down 

 in the bottom, to be boiled, and put some 

 more cold water in its place. If you add a 

 few pieces of ice to the water on top, the 

 steam water will condense on the under side 

 of the cover much faster. In our issue for 

 Oct. 15, 1896, we gave a cut of a home-made 

 apparatus, and I regard the matter as of so 

 much importance that I hereby reproduce it. 



DIRECTIONS FOR USE. 



The apparatus consists of au iron kettle, not pot, 

 with sides straight at a certain angle; a seamless tin 

 pail, a little more flaring, of such size that it will sit 

 about .3 inches in the kettle, and fit snug all around, 

 so the steam does not escape. I next found a round 

 earthen dish, with scolloped edges, a little smaller 

 than the middle of the kettle, which rests on a tin can. 

 We put water into the kettle up to the bottom of the 

 dish, whi:h holds more than the dish will hold (when 

 it has steamed up against the pail with cold water in 

 it). Into this the water drops from the conden.sed 

 steam. 



You will notice the above is a modification 

 of the boiler and c )ver. Now, the apparatus 

 furnished by the Cuprigraph Co. is only a 

 further modification of the above — of course, 

 very much more perfect, and withal exceed- 

 ingly ingenious. 



The water is boiled in A, as before. It will 

 not do to let A become empty, therefore there 

 is an opening at L so you can see just how low 

 the water is in the boiler. The chamber C 

 holds the cold water; and as it collects like 

 dew on the outside of C, it runs down and 

 drops from the lower corners into the outside 

 receptacle F. It is finally discharged at K 



SANITARY STILL, OR 



CUPRIGRAPH. 



other suitable 



into a glass fruit-jar, or any 

 vessel. C is to be kept constantly full of cold 

 water. You fill it by pouring water in at the 

 tunnel T. This cold water goes down to the 

 bottom through the pipe H. The cold water 

 will always stay at the bottom because it is 

 heavier. If you pour in enough water at T 

 the hot water' will overflow at E into the tube 

 I, and this replenishes A. The tubes B B B 

 are air-tubes to furnish air to aerate the dis- 



