APRIL 15, 1916 



couple of screws so 

 you can yank the wire 

 as hard as you wish. 

 After stringing the 

 wire in the frame and 

 releasing it from the 

 clamp the end-bars 

 spring back and draw 

 the wires very tight. 

 In this locality, 

 where the sun is hot 

 and honey thick, 1 

 have found the cross- 

 wiring scheme an ex- 

 cellent plan, worth all the trouble and more 

 too. Fig. 3 makes it plain. I buy the wire 



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in the coil, and make a spool to fit it that 

 revolves on a spindle attached to a frame 

 fastened at the end of the bench. After 



threading the end of the wire thru holes 1, 

 2, 3, 4, I tack it fast, then cut the wire at 

 the spool and thread the other end thru 

 Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8. One can avoid kinks in the 

 wire that way. 



A magnetic tack-hammer to pick the 

 tacks up from the upper deck and start 

 them in the proper places is handy. 



We extract in the upper story of our 

 honey-house, run the honey thru pipes im- 

 mersed in hot water, into six-ton tanks 

 below. It gets thin enough to strain thru 

 fine cloth. This was illustrated in Glean- 

 ings some time ago. 



Greenfield, Cal. 



MY WIRE -REEL AND WIRING -BOARD 



BY J. E. JORDAN 



The illustration shows my wire-^vinding 

 device. By using this device, all the wires 

 will be of the right length to wire fully the 

 frames, and all will be cut at one stroke. 



To make this, bore a hole in a block and 

 nail the block to the corner of your honey- 

 house. This will serve as a bearing for one 

 side of the reel. Put up the framework for 

 the other side of the 

 reel as shown. Select 

 a board 1/2x7x391/2 

 inches, and exactly in 

 the center nail the 

 axle, a square piece of 

 wood, rounded at the 

 ends as in the illustra- 

 tion. Nail a small 



strip, 1/2x1/2x7, across 

 inches 

 This is 

 wire for 



^ Cutting Strip 



the board 3 

 from the end. 

 to raise the 

 cutting. 



Wind on all the wire 

 that the spool holds, 

 then with clamps hold 

 the wire tight about 6 

 or 7 inches from each 

 end of the board. Now 

 with a pair of tinner's 

 snips cut the wire at 

 the half-inch strip, 



