. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. June, 1909. American Hee Journal large side, you will get along very well. I never used any other kind of uncap- ping cans until my annual output was far above 20,000 pounds. As to straining, I have used a very thin cloth, on the order of a bolting cloth, for the purpose. I make a hoop just a little larger than the top of a lard can, as above mentioned, and sew the cloth to the hoop, not too taut. Leave it loose enough so that it will sag about an inch or so in the middle. This strain- er fits over the entire top of the can, and the honey is surely st
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. June, 1909. American Hee Journal large side, you will get along very well. I never used any other kind of uncap- ping cans until my annual output was far above 20,000 pounds. As to straining, I have used a very thin cloth, on the order of a bolting cloth, for the purpose. I make a hoop just a little larger than the top of a lard can, as above mentioned, and sew the cloth to the hoop, not too taut. Leave it loose enough so that it will sag about an inch or so in the middle. This strain- er fits over the entire top of the can, and the honey is surely strained when run through it. I strained over 20,000 pounds thus, last season. I mount the extractor and run the honey direct from the gate of the extractor through the strainer and into the can. A person will get along very well with these strainers, if he had 2 or 3 of them, and with frequent washing them in a tub of water. Should you try the cloth strainer, be sure to get a very hard-spun thread, for honey will not run through cloth made from fluffy-spun thread. A better strain- er can be had by having your tinner make you one from very finely perfor- ated tin, with holes about 1-64 in. in di- ameter, or the size of a common needle or an ordinary pin. To fill jars with the honey, clean up the extractor, mount it, and pour it full of honey, and fill jars at the gate. Bartlett, Tex. T. P. Non-Swarming Bees BY C. P. DADANT. There is a discussion of this question going on in the bee-papers. In Glean- ings for May ist, Dr. C. C. Miller cites Editor Kramer of the Swiss Bee Jour- nal, as saying that the swarming pro- pensity has been worked out of their strain of bees, in Switzerland, by selec- tion among their native race, but that the Americans can never succeed much in this line "with the hot-blooded Ital- ; Editor Root did me the honor to ask my opinion in the matter, and I at once replied, stating that I thought the fault was not with the race. Since wr
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