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Show STRAINING HONEY. How to Arrange the Uncapping Tank, 8tralner and Extractor. It looks quite reasonable, writes a California bee keeper, that a method of manipulating bees or honey in ono locality might not bo suited to another In which the climate Is altogether different. dif-ferent. Tho nplarlst who reads tho up-to-date bee Journals has access to a fountain of knowledgo he can not afford af-ford to bo without in theso days of competition. Tho method of straining honoy Is not ono of much Interest to tho bec-mon of this cllmnto. Honey deposited in the largo tanks used hero sotttos at onco. In a few hours overy foreign substance Is on tho surface, where It can be skimmed off. Straining through cloth is out of tho question. I will glvo a method of my own, which somo of my noighhors aro adopting. adopt-ing. Tho following sketch will bo Its best explanation. A Is the uncupplng-boXr It Is ono of Mclntyro's make. II is tho extractor. C is a pan which receives tho honey from both A nnd P.. Inside of this pan is tho stralnor. Tho pan Is 14 by 20 Inches and 5 doep. Tho strainer is mndo by tacking wire cloth on to four strips of wood by 1 and tho length and breadth of tho receptacle. This The Apparatus. strainer is raised from the bottom 2Vi Indies. Four blocks of wood, lxl nnd J Mi long, stand In ench cornor as Its support. From this pan the honey flows through a two-Inch pipe to tho tank. Tills method Is simple, cheap and easily kopt clean. You can lmvo a number of those strainers. They mako good covers for hives at tho tlmo of moving bees. Tho Blze, 14 by 20, Just suits an L. hive. 1 chango tho sieve every half-day. Mr. Hoi term ann Is opposed to exposing ex-posing honoy to the alrr "The aroma is lost," ho Bays. It may bo; but hero our boat honoy Is that which lies In tho tank exposed to tho sun's rays for tho longest time. Hnd I tanks enough I would lcavo It all out until tho closo of tho extracting season, simply covering cover-ing tho tank with a whlto shoot. Aftor a wcok or so of oxposuro a scum resembling re-sembling tho whlto of an egg covers tho surface one-fourth Inch thick. I want this out of tho honoy beforo I can it up. Gleanings In Deo Culture. |