Gleanings in bee culture . sed three capping-melters,one being the Severin, described in Glean-ings^ page 722, Dec. 1, 1911. The otherswere the combined melter and Mclntyre un-capping-box described on pages 406 and410, July 1, 1912. Comparing the two, theSeverin is small and easily moved. Theother is bulky, and adapted only to a per-manent location. The Severin requires atwo-burner stove, as all the honey containedin the cappings must also be heated whilemelting the cappings. The combined melter,on account of diaining off much of the hon-ey before melting, requires only a one-burner stove, and
Gleanings in bee culture . sed three capping-melters,one being the Severin, described in Glean-ings^ page 722, Dec. 1, 1911. The otherswere the combined melter and Mclntyre un-capping-box described on pages 406 and410, July 1, 1912. Comparing the two, theSeverin is small and easily moved. Theother is bulky, and adapted only to a per-manent location. The Severin requires atwo-burner stove, as all the honey containedin the cappings must also be heated whilemelting the cappings. The combined melter,on account of diaining off much of the hon-ey before melting, requires only a one-burner stove, and much less honey is dark-ened by heating. Again, it is much easierto uncap into a large box than into a smallmelter like the Severin. The combinedmelter also takes care of all the drip combs waiting to be extracted, sothat there is no dripping of honey any- 226 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE c<= 2In. Pipe fo Tank^ /zln. Pipe from Pump - J--X , Coarse Strainer tn ||||t||t|ii|a|Mt|teitg|)|||i||^ 1 :J M Ptttit. Water Jacketed K Heating Tank with Oil i ? I Screened Window V/, Covereddtorage Tank Can filler. 6olb Can 7/;:;/>. y/^^y/////^//;^//// where but in the one box (all the stickymess in the one box), and no handling ofany tiling but the honey as it drains off,and the cakes of clean wax as they comefrom the wax-separator. I have been much pleased with the Sever-in wax-separator. The honey is separatedfrom the wax at once, and the wax is pro-duced in clean uniform cakes free fromslumgum or honey, and ready for the mar-ket. It means something not to have to re-melt and mold from three to five hundredpounds of wax yearly. The engravings show the arrangement ofmy extracting-house. From the power ex-tractor the honey is pumped to an elevatedwater-jacketed lieater-tank. I was unable to operate the pump satisfactorily on ourthick cold honey until it was connected withtlie extractor-shaft by chain and sprockets,and then it had to work. As the honeycomes from the jDum
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