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Pasteurized Cider 
I have made cider for the past five 
years, but this year intend bottling and 
pasteurizing. Can you tell me whether 
pasteurized cider three hours after press¬ 
ing would have the cathartic effect that 
all new untreated cider has until stored 
several days in a barrel? Would it be 
better for me to age the new cider in a 
barrel a few days before bottling and 
pasteurizing, provided my methods were 
sanitary and the alcoholic content is kept 
down ? h. ir. r. 
Our understanding is that pasteurized 
cider does not have the laxative effect so 
common to raw cider. It would be all 
right to “age” the cider, provided you 
do not let it stand long enough to go over 
one-half of one per cent of alcohol; but 
the best operators prefer to pasteurize it 
within a few hours after pressing. 
Extracting Honey and Melting Wax 
1. How can honey be extracted out of 
broken comb? 2. How is the wax melted? 
Wolfboro Falls, N. H. g. p. g. 
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Honey will drip from broken combs if 
they are uncapped with a thin-bladed 
knife and set in a warm place where the 
honey will become sufficiently thin to run. 
Placing the broken combs upon a wooden 
rack above a pan for catching the honey 
will expedite matters. Honey may be 
extracted and the wax melted at the same 
time by placing the broken combs in a 
solar wax extractor and exposing them 
to the sun on a hot day. A solar ex¬ 
tractor is simply a shallow box lined with 
■sheet iron and covered with glass. This 
box is provided with one or more recep¬ 
tacles at one end to catch the melted 
wax and honey and is tilted at the proper 
angle to catch the sun’s rays and to per¬ 
mit the liquefied wax and honey to flow 
into the above mentioned receptacles. 
After cooling the wax will be found to 
have solidified into a cake above the 
honey. 
Old. dirty wax that will not melt 
readily in the sun may be put into burlap 
bags and immersed in water in an ordi¬ 
nary wash boiler. Sticks of wood should 
be placed beneath the bag containing the 
comb. A weight will hold the bag be¬ 
neath the surface of the water as it is 
being boiled over the kitchen stove and 
the wax will exude from the bag to col¬ 
lect and harden into a cake on top when 
the water is allowed to cool. m. b. d. 
Transferring Swarm of Bees 
Will you tell me how I can change a 
swarm of bees from one hive into another? 
I have caught a swarm of honey-bees, 
and, of course, I did not have a hive, so 
I had to make a temporary one. I shall 
have to change them into a good hive. 
Bloomsburg, N. «T. c. ir. F. 
To get a colony of bees to occupy a 
new hive, the latter should be fitted up 
with frames in which foundation has been 
placed, either as full sheets or starters. 
One or more frames of brood in the new 
hive will make it still more attractive, 
but are not essential. Before transfer¬ 
ring. this new hive should be placed upon 
the stand occupied by the old. in order 
that field bees returning with their stores 
may not become confused and fail to find 
their fellows. Having removed the old 
hive and replaced it with the new. get the 
bees out of the old in any feasible way, 
being sure that you get their queen with 
them. Perhaps the easiest is by what 
is known as the drumming method. Smoke 
the bees sufficiently to quiet them, and 
protect your hands and face by gloves 
and veil. Turn the old hive bottom side 
up, after having first made a hiving box, 
without cover, that will exactly fit the 
bottom of this hive. Invest the hiving 
box over the bottom of the old hive and 
drum upon the sides of the latter until 
the greater part of the bees have run up 
into this box; then carry them to the 
new hive upon the old stand and dump 
them in front of the entrance. Kepeat 
the drumming until you have obtained at 
least the greater part of the bees with 
their queen and dumped them before the 
new hive. The old hive may now be 
righted and left in place for three weeks 
for the brood to hatch, after which it may 
be drummed as before to secure these 
young bees. 
The bees will run into the new’ hive, 
and if the queen bee is with them will 
probably stay. Ttoturning field bees, for 
this work is best done on a day when the 
bees are carrying in stores, will enter the 
new hive and remain. The process, as 
you see. is very simple, though full of in¬ 
teresting possibilities for the amateur, 
t he writer recalls his first attempt, which 
finite successful and without mishap, 
wishing to be sure that the queen was 
among her workers in this case, a sheet 
was placed before the new hive upon the 
ground and a queen excluder was placed 
over the entrance. The bees dumped 
Upon this sheet ran into the new hive 
through the excluder, leaving the queen 
outside. Having made sure that she was 
there by observation, the exc'nder was 
removed and the queen was allowmd to 
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