THE HARMOST 7.5 



drains off so freely that it has to be emptied from below both 

 noon and night and sometimes oftener. The cappings are there- 

 fore pretty well drained when the time comes to load for home 

 in the evening, when the full can is taken along. It is left to drain 

 overnight. In the morning the cappings are transferred to a 

 larger tank with but a shallow space at the bottom for the collec- 

 tion of the balance of the honey. When the end of the season 

 and a slack time come, this dried mass may be run through a 

 melter if desired. The cappings of the 1918 fall extracting in the 

 Dadant apiaries from 11,000 pounds of honey were, for a test, 

 run through a separating can and melter fashioned after those 

 of Sechrist and Crane. Less than sixty pounds of honey were 

 secured from the whole lot. 



P. W. Sowinski, of Michigan, running a one man plant, uses 

 the uncapping box, spreading the cappings evenly over the box 

 during the day's run. At evening he rolls up his sleeves and 

 thoroughly breaks up and mixes these cappings until all is a con- 

 glomerated mass. By morning the cappings are practically 

 dry. 



Fig. 26. Box arranged for holding supers of combs while they are being 

 sulphured from below. 



