. Gleanings in bee culture . UNCAPPING COMBS IN A FERGUSON UNCAPPING-MACHINE AND BY Inexperienced man can do as much with the machine as an expert can with the ordinary hand-knife. July 1. 1911 397. WHITE-CLOVER FIELD IN TEXAS. — SEE BEE-KEEPING IN THE SOUTHWEST, LAST ISSUE. ing-pan. The knife should be held so thatthe beveled edu:e is i)arallel with the surfaceof the comb, thus throwing the lower edgeaway from the comb, and separating thecai)pings that are cut loose from the uncap-l)ing surface below. The combs should betijiped over to the right, or toward the knife,so that the top of
. Gleanings in bee culture . UNCAPPING COMBS IN A FERGUSON UNCAPPING-MACHINE AND BY Inexperienced man can do as much with the machine as an expert can with the ordinary hand-knife. July 1. 1911 397. WHITE-CLOVER FIELD IN TEXAS. — SEE BEE-KEEPING IN THE SOUTHWEST, LAST ISSUE. ing-pan. The knife should be held so thatthe beveled edu:e is i)arallel with the surfaceof the comb, thus throwing the lower edgeaway from the comb, and separating thecai)pings that are cut loose from the uncap-l)ing surface below. The combs should betijiped over to the right, or toward the knife,so that the top of the frame will be aboutthree inches out of perpendicular. In thisposition the cappings as loosened will fallclear of the uncapi)e(l surface. A commonfault of the beginner is to hold the comb sonearly perpendicular that most of the loosen-ed cappings fall back on the uncapped sur-face. It usually takes up more time to scrapeoff these loose particles than it took to un-cap the whole comb in the first place, andthe cells are not left in as good condition toextract after being thus fussed over with theknife. It is important that not a singleparticle of loose capping falls back on thecomb below the kn
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