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COMB HONEY, TO PRODUCE 
bee glue, and that is true. But sandpaper 
is cheap, and when one sheet is filled, an¬ 
other can be used, and so on. 
When one has a large amount of comb 
honey the work can be done with sand¬ 
paper more expeditiously by fastening it 
on a revolving cylinder or on the flat sur¬ 
face of a revolving disk operated by foot 
power or a small motor. Where one has a 
gasoline engine for a large power-driven 
honey-extractor, he can use that as a motor 
power. 
It was stated that rubbing the section 
on a flat sheet of sandpaper by hand leaves 
the edges rough, and dust on the surface 
of the comb. The illustration, which is 
enlarged to illustrate the details, shows 
how the fine dust lodges on the comb and 
how the edges of the sections are rough¬ 
ened, leaving hairs or fibers of wood cling¬ 
ing to the edges. The authors experience 
is, however, that a power-driven cylinder 
or disk on account of the high speed, does 
not scratch the sections nor leave the sur¬ 
faces of the comb covered with dust. 
BOOMHOWER KNIFE-SCRAPING TABLE. 
Prank Boomkower of Gallupville, N. Y., 
has a section-scraping table like the one 
shown herewith. As will be seen, two 
scrapers can work at a time, the sides of 
the box or tray being cut away in such a 
Knife-scraping table. 
way as to allow a knife to scrape down 
clear past the edge of the section. Each 
section, as it is scraped, is put into the 
shipping case. 
Those with only a few sections will not 
be likely to have such a table, and some 
large producers might prefer not to use it. 
Any ordinary table may be used for the 
work, or a board on the lap will answer. 
It is easier to do the work sitting. A block 
2 inches thick, more or less, and 4 inches 
square, the size not being important, lies 
on the table, or on the board on the lap. 
When the section is placed upon this block, 
projecting over one side, it allows free play 
for the knife. If the super is of such 
character that the sections may be taken 
out en masse, the work may be greatly 
shortened by cleaning all the tops at one 
operation, and the bottoms in the same 
way. No matter what the super, one may 
shorten the work in this way: Make a 
rim, or box without top or bottom, whose 
depth is an inch less than the height of 
the sections to be cleaned, and an inch or 
so wider and longer than the superful of 
sections. Have two boards as large as, or a 
little larger than, the rim mentioned. Lay 
a board on the table, set the rim on the 
board, and then fill the rim with sections. 
Put into one end a thin board as a fol¬ 
lower and wedge it up. Do the same at one 
side. Now, with a cabinet-maker’s scraper 
or some other tool scrape the propolis off 
the entire surface. Follow this up with 
No. 2 sandpaper. Now lay the other board 
on top of the sections. Turn the whole 
thing upside down. Take the top board off 
the sections. Loosen the wedges as much 
as necessary to. let the rim drop down on 
the board and then wedge tight again. 
Scrape and sandpaper as before. The sec¬ 
tions may now be taken out and finished on 
the little blocks as before mentioned. It is 
a convenience to have a large table and a 
number of boards. Each board may be slid 
along on the table out of the way, or it 
may be piled up on another boardful of 
sections. 
Both scraping and sandpapering will 
work better when it is so cool that the glue 
is brittle. Indeed, sandpaper will not work 
on soft glue. 
GRANULATED COMB HONEY; WHAT TO DO 
WITH IT. 
If dealers are not suspicious regarding 
comb honey nor have had their heads filled 
with stories of artificial comb honey, they 
can probably sell granulated comb honey 
at very near the same price as that whicli 
is still in the liquid form; for granulated 
honey in the comb is fine for table use. 
Some explanation should be made, how- 
