HEATING HONEY. 



A WHOLESALE METHOD. 



Slionld a liee-farmer have a crop to market in the 

 winter, he would necessarily handle it in a different 

 manner from one intended for immediate disposal. 

 Should he decide to sell the honey as fast as it is 

 extracted, the hetter plan is to use some gravitation 

 system that heats the honey as it flows from the extractor. 

 Under the latter circumstances, this plan undoulitedly 

 saves time. He should then adopt one of the various 

 honey-heaters advertised, or a smart man may mal^e an 

 apparatus suitable for the piirpose. 



The sinijjlest form is that composed of a long shallow 

 "channel." This should have a false bottom, with the 

 intervening space full of water heated by a kerosene 

 stove. Of course if one had a boiler on hand it would be 

 better to use a steam pipe to keep the water hot. The 

 "channel" should connect the gate of the extractor with 

 tlie honey tank. The top of the plane should be inclined 

 at a low grade, and if a number of transverse bars were 

 soldered to the channel-top the machine would be made 

 more effective, as the hone}'' would take a longer time 

 to complete the journey, thus heating more readily. 



Should the tank be on a lower level than the extractor, 

 all that would be required to complete the outfit is a 

 cheese-cloth strainer over the mouth of the tank. Honey, 

 when heated, runs through this cloth without trouble. All 

 the preceding directions have been written on the 

 supposition that a man wishes to market his product 

 immediately. 



