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five degrees. The honey runs around these partitions, back 
and forth, a distance of one-hundred feet before it reaches 
the outlet at the further end; from there it passes through 
ten feet of pipe into the tank, containing one ton. By the 
time it reaches the tank, the water is pretty well evaporated.” 
METAL CORNERS FOR CRATE COVERS. 
Mr. W. H. Fletcher, of Sauk Rapids, Minn., has made a 
very simple little contrivance for attaching to the corners of 
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Fie. 33.—Metal Corners for Crate Covers. 
erate covers. These can be made of tin, require no especial 
ingenuity to manufacture, are easily tacked on the corners of 
the covers, and will be found very convenient by the grocer 
or family to hold the cover exactly in place, thereby effect- 
ually excluding flies and bees from the honey. Fig. 33 
illustrates a section of the crate and cover with the tin corner 
attached. 
PUTTING THE GLASS IN THE SECTIONS. 
This is not such an easy matter to do, especially without 
some tool to drive in the tin points. Mr. C. Wurster, of 
Canada, has made a tool to do this (fig. 34), the use of which 
he describes as follows: “‘When using the tool, the section 
must be laid down flat, lay the glass on, and the side of the 
section you wish to drive the points in should be nearest you, 
