AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Queries and Replies. 



Treatment of Canflieil Comli-Hoiiey. 



Query 789. — 1. What can be done 

 with fifty cases of one-pound sections, 

 white comb-honey that has candied ? 

 2. Can it be left in the comb and become 

 liquid again ? — I. O. U. 



2. We think not.— Dadant & Son. 



No ; put it into a sun extractor, and 

 melt it. — Mrs. L. Harrison. 



1. Sell it for the very best figures 

 obtainable. 2. No.— J. M. Hambaugh. 



1. Melt it, and take off the cake of 

 wax. 2. I do not think it can. — C. C. 

 Miller. 



1. Melt It, and thus separate the wax 

 from the honey, or eat it as it is. 2. 

 No. — M. Mahin. 



1. I see no way other than to melt it, 

 or feed it to the bees. 2. I cannot see 

 how. — A. J. Cook. 



1. Put in a sun wax extractor and 

 melt, when you will have nice liquid 

 honey, with the wax on top. 2. No. — 



G. M. DOOLITTLE. 



1. It can be sold for what you can 

 get, or melted up ; selling the honey 

 liquid, and wax solid. 2. It will not 

 liquefy in the comb. — James Heddon. 



1. Liquefy it as you would extracted- 

 honey that is candied. The comb will 

 melt, and can be removed, as a cake of 

 wax, when cool. 2. No ; it will never 

 become good comb-honey. — R.L.Taylor. 



1. I would suggest placing it in a very 

 warm room — as warm as can be made 

 without melting the wax — for a few 

 days. Keeping honey in a warm room 

 tends to prevent candying. — G. L. 

 Tinker, 



If it is not salable in the comb, I 

 should melt it, and perhaps add a little 

 water, to give it the consistency of thick 

 extracted-honey, and put it into honey 

 pails. Of course, save the wax. — C. H. 



DiBBERN. 



I would melt the candied comb-honey 

 you describe by the use of my solar wax 

 extractor. It has a cylindrical wax pan, 

 and does the work better than anything 

 ever before devised. With a bare mar- 



ket,"and good demand last year, why 

 was it allowed to candy ? — G. W. Dem- 



AREE. 



1. If you want to save the honey, the 

 only plan that I see is to cut the combs 

 out of the sections, and melt them over 

 a slow fire, taking care not to burn the 

 honey. The wax will rise to the top, 

 and can be skimmed off. — J. P. H. 

 Brown. 



1. I know of nothing more practicable 

 than to use it as it is. It can be heated, 

 and thus liquefied, but in either case the 

 comb will be destroyed. Adopt which- 

 ever plan will produce the most cash. 2. 

 It will not liquefy in the comb if left 

 there. — J. E. Pond. 



1. I am trying apian this year, which, 

 at the present writing (Aug. 8), offers a 

 little encouragement. I piled some 

 supers of last year's granulated honey, 

 3 or 4 deep, on top of colonies which had 

 cast swarms. My idea was that during 

 August the heat would liquefy it. Per- 

 haps a warm room would accomplish 

 the same end. — Eugene Secor. 



1. A good many things. It may be 

 given to parties who love honey, but are 

 too poor to pay for it ; it may be sold to 

 parties who like such honey, or the 

 honey and combs may be melted in a 

 solar wax extractor, and then you will 

 have some nice beeswax and extracted- 

 honey. The wax will cool on top of the 

 honey. 2. It will not become liquid if 

 left in the comb.— A. B. Mason. 



It cannot be liquefied in any manner 

 so as to save the combs, and it is useless 

 for ordinary table use. Some like to eat 

 it when candied, and that is the only 

 disposition that can be made of it with- 

 out liquefying. It can be melted and 

 allowed to cool ; the wax will then form 

 a cake at the top. This can be removed 

 and marketed, leaving the liquid honey 

 for use or sale, according to opportunity 

 or desire of the apiarist. — The Editor. 



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