great to be easily set forth. Have today invented a new brush
for sweeping off bees from the combs emptied or transferred. It is
simply fine grass tied up into a brush like bundle. Soft and
[illegible], brushes them off very rapidly, as it gets between combs and uprights
and bottoms of frames. Important. Doctor James Saunders of this place
suggested to me that the rapid thickening of honey in the hive was owing
to the great amount of [illegible] surface exposed by the combs. His
father had The heat [illegible] this surface could do very little
towards it. Thin Locust honey almost as thin as sugar water
 when emptied out and which requires much boiling to thicken it into
a generous consistency is soon brought by the bees to the sealing state. 
Perhaps the water in part exudes from their bodies when they
are gorged with honey and they can at will allow the process to
go on to the secretion of wax or [illegible] it and return the thickened
honey to the cells. This honey emptied by the extractor is usually of the proper
consistency to can or barrel. If much thicker would candy. To honey
it to the consistency of generous honey. If in small quantities heat from
a nearby [illegible] stove etc. not enough to boil. Important. On
a large scale have an arrangement like a hot bed. Glass to
get up a very great dry heat. Receptacle for honey to be thickened
outside of the evaporator, so as to receive readily the thin honey
faucet to let it run into a broad and very shallow pan, get galvanized
iron. There might be two or more one over the other, heat
of sun blazing will in one day (more or less) do the work. Draw into
by faucet to can, etc. outside of evaporator. The whole arrangement simple. 
Langstroth's honey evaporator or honey thickener. Important. Much time
spent by bees in the height of the gathering season in getting water. How easy
when emptying to fill an outside comb with water and save the time of the bees
for more effective work. Easy with all the hives where honey boards are left off