. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 99 I first made the arrangement with a hole, F, in one corner of the tin C to allow the melted wax to run out into a cup G, but I have now dispensed with this and simply empty the tin, C, when it gets full. A little water is kept in the pan C. Have a common table knife to scrape the comb refuse from the top of the iron D. Friend H., this is not theory. I used it on many hundreds of sections last year ; in faci, all the honey (about 1,500 pounds) that I got finished was in these prepared sections, and a nicer, whiter lot of combs
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 99 I first made the arrangement with a hole, F, in one corner of the tin C to allow the melted wax to run out into a cup G, but I have now dispensed with this and simply empty the tin, C, when it gets full. A little water is kept in the pan C. Have a common table knife to scrape the comb refuse from the top of the iron D. Friend H., this is not theory. I used it on many hundreds of sections last year ; in faci, all the honey (about 1,500 pounds) that I got finished was in these prepared sections, and a nicer, whiter lot of combs you never saw. It brought 18 cents here as soon as crated. I am making machinery to make them and shall claim a moral patent, at least. Every bee-keeper that has seen it says, " Yes. 1 want ; FoRESTViLLE, Minn. Feb. 12, 1893. A Description of the "Larg-est House-Apiary in the World," and its Successful Management. H. p. LANGDON. â 'E pluribus ; TN telling my 1 bee - keeping friends about the largest house-api- ary in the world, let me, first of all, thank all those who, during the past ten years, have written through the bee j ou rna 1 s anything in regard to the house-apiary question ; as it is only through their experience that I have been able to make my house what it is. I took each point under careful consideration, then took a lit- tle here and a little there from all these dif- ferent articles, to make a perfect whole that would suit me. So, although friend B. Tay- lor's advice on page 38 of the Review is good, all these experiments had demonstra- ted the plans that would suit me best. That is why I built so large for the first one. The house, 11x100 feet, stands a few de- grees W. of S. on a good stone and mortar wall, with ventilating openings on each side. The sills are two pieces of 2x4; the lower joists are 2x8, two feet from center to center,. and the same distance as the studding. Tlie floor is double Jg, both layers planed, wit
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