. The illustrated Australasian bee manual and complete guide to modern bee culture in the southern hemisphere. With this is incorporated the "New Zealand bee manual" greatly enlarged, revised and mostly rewritten. Bees. 154 AUSTRALASIAN A flange 2 inches from bottom of upper can forms a support for it by resting on upper edge of lower one. The strainers are made of stout wire-cloth ten meshes to the lineal inch, and permanently fixed to upper can. A tap at bottom and two strong handles to each can make them complete ; cost, 30s. A light wood framework is made to hook on upper rim, as
. The illustrated Australasian bee manual and complete guide to modern bee culture in the southern hemisphere. With this is incorporated the "New Zealand bee manual" greatly enlarged, revised and mostly rewritten. Bees. 154 AUSTRALASIAN A flange 2 inches from bottom of upper can forms a support for it by resting on upper edge of lower one. The strainers are made of stout wire-cloth ten meshes to the lineal inch, and permanently fixed to upper can. A tap at bottom and two strong handles to each can make them complete ; cost, 30s. A light wood framework is made to hook on upper rim, as in the figure, on which to rest the frames of combs while uncap- ping them. Sometimes it is advisable to extract the honey out of a piece of broken comb, or a whole comb not built in a frame. For this purpose a so-called broken-comb basket of the form shown below (Fig. 71) is convenient. The two pieces of wirecloth are joined by hinges at c C. A wire, with two bent ends, B B passes through the tin frame of one piece, and can be easily turned to hook into the other. Fig. 71.—BKOKEN-COMB BASKET. frame at A when the comb to be extracted has been placed between the two ; the whole is then suspended on the top bar of the extractor-basket by means of the hooks A A. MANIPULATION OF EXTRACTED HONEY. The honey as it flows out of the extractor is by no means in a fit condition to be filled into the vessels in which it is to be stored or sent to market; no matter what care is taken with the uncapping and extracting, there will be some pieces of wax mixed with the honey, and perhaps some larvje or dead bees. If it be passed through a suitable strainer, all these foreign substances may be removed, or if it be collected in a tank and allowed to settle long enough, until they, being lighter than honey, accumulate on the surface, the clean honey may then be. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloratio
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