. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 436 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL November will have to discard the case of two 60-pound cans, for such a case weighs 135 pounds and has to be lifted or slid along on skids, also. There is considerable heavy lifting about a crop of two or three tons of honey. The objection we have to the use of 60-pound cans is that we want to put up our honey in small recepta- cles as the orders come. So we would need to empty those 60-pound cans of the honey put in them. The av- erage honey producer knows that a CO-pound can which has been filled and emptied is only a second
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 436 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL November will have to discard the case of two 60-pound cans, for such a case weighs 135 pounds and has to be lifted or slid along on skids, also. There is considerable heavy lifting about a crop of two or three tons of honey. The objection we have to the use of 60-pound cans is that we want to put up our honey in small recepta- cles as the orders come. So we would need to empty those 60-pound cans of the honey put in them. The av- erage honey producer knows that a CO-pound can which has been filled and emptied is only a second-hand package aftei-wards, for it is difficult to rinse it and have it again per- fectly dry. That is why we prefer the barrel, which is just as good, after having been filled and emptied several times, if we care for it properly. We must never put water in it, or if we do, just to wash out the small parti- cles of honey, we should drain it at once and keep it in a dry place, and tighten the hoops before using it again. Ripening But let us come to the first ques- tion of this article: ripening honey. It is unnecessary to advise the bee- keeper not to extract his honey until it is as fully ripened as the bees can give it. But, unfortunately, even capped honey is not always fully ripe. If your honey is not ripe and you do not have tanks in a warm, di'y build- ing, in which you may leave it during the hot weather, you will need to ripen it artificially. This may be done at the time of putting it up in small packages, if it is not so green as to ferment before that time. How am I to know that my honey is ripe? Ha! This is a hard question. You will have to trust your judgment. Much depends upon the heat of the day in looking at the flow of the honey. But if you leave it long. Shallow stilling latiks used by R. \ .Wnv V, bctke enough on the hives, there will be very little chance of having it too green. I* do not remember getting unripe honey more than two or three times, and I soon
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