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ing the fire chamber part way, throws the 

 heat forward. At about 12 to 1(J inches high 

 a sheet iron covering is laid in the brick 

 work from the back to the partition dividing 

 the wax chamber from the fire chamber. 

 The iron being laid into the brick work, 

 completely closes in the tire chamber from 

 the other compartments, so no smoke can 

 get into the extractor. 



AIKIN's SOLAE and FDKNAOE - HEAT WAX 

 EXTBACTOB. 



Fig. 2 shows the front and one side wall, 

 and the wood and iron sash. The sash is set 

 on the brick work in mortar and is not to be 

 removed. The wax chamber door opens in 

 from the side and is just large enough to al- 

 low the wax pan to slip in endwise. The pan 

 is about ten inches wide and deep by about 

 28 or 30 long. The outside measure of the 

 extractor is about 4x6 feet. The bars that 

 support the glass have T tins wired on to 

 them and make the glass rest on rabbets. 



Fig. 3 is a back view and shows the fur- 

 nace door and draft opening and the flue. 

 At the top is a door hinged at the top, and 

 extending clear across the end. This door 

 is to put in combs and to remove the refuse. 

 The hand hole near the center is to insert 

 the hand and arm with a stick or scraper to 



stir the combs, or to draw all back near the 

 highest point. 



The drip pan is made of two boards about 

 4)2 feet long and six or eight inches wide, 

 having four bars of iron (we used old buggy 

 tire) with the ends bent up at right angles. 

 The boards we screwed to the uprights, or 

 ends, of the iron bars. In this skeleton is 

 placed a tin bottom nailed to the side boards 

 and having about a two inch " turn up " at 

 the upper end. This drip pan can be drawn 

 right out at the door behind, very much as 

 you would draw out a bureau drawer. 



In hot weather no tire is needed in the 

 furnace, but a tire will help us out in the fall 

 and spring when we have work to do. Yes- 

 terday (June 13) we melted 32 lbs. of wax, 

 some of it being comb, but the bulk was 

 cakes of wax brokeu up to remelt. 



Being built right ou the ground, and hav- 

 ing brick walls, it holds heat through the 

 whole night. This morning when I removed 

 the 32 lb. cake of wax, it was so warm on 

 the under side that the wax was quite soft. 



We used less than \M brick and laid them 

 in mud mortar. Tlie sheet iron to cover the 

 furnace cost $1.00. Tin about TjOc, glass 

 !i;2..">0. This makes a cost of about ifSS.OO for 

 material. A much better and larger one 

 could be maile for $10.00, or less. 



Candied honey can be melted very rapidly 

 in it. You would only have to see it in op- 

 eration to say it is a good thing. I think, 

 with an apiary of 100 and more colonies an 

 apiarist could profitably afford a solar on 

 this plan. A little extra room in a solar 

 comes very handy now and then. 



I forgot to mention that the furnace is 

 made of the " running gears " of an old, 

 small sized, heating stove, a coal burner. 

 No patent on any part of this. 



LovELAND, Colo. June 14, 1893. 



Working Three Colonies in One Set of Su- 

 pers and Preventing Swarming. 



GEO. B. WEIiLEE. 



" Beautiful schemes, beautiful schemes, 

 How they prosper in our dreams ! " 



(HE May Review is very good. I wish 

 the eight extra pages were permanent, 

 if quality would not be sacrificed for 

 quantity; many golden grains of apiarian 

 knowledge I lose, most unwillingly, beca 



