The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . eet of tin. The honey drips uponthe edge of another sheet placed so as to beinclined in the opposite direction. From thelower edge of this sheet the lioney drips up-on the upper edge of the third sheet; fromthe third to the fourth, and in this mannerit continues to fiow from sheet toslieet, un-til it passes ove
The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . eet of tin. The honey drips uponthe edge of another sheet placed so as to beinclined in the opposite direction. From thelower edge of this sheet the lioney drips up-on the upper edge of the third sheet; fromthe third to the fourth, and in this mannerit continues to fiow from sheet toslieet, un-til it passes over about thirty, when it runsinto a large vat. To prevent the honeyfrom running oft the sheets, the edges areturned up slightly. Mr. Pettit says he hasnever thought it necessary to run honeythrough the evaporator more than once. Mr. W. S. Hart, of Hawks Park, Fla., ri-pens his honey artificially by mejins of sunheat. He has a large pan made that hasupriglit partitions passing backward andforward (tlie same as in L. (. Hoots evapo-rator) in such a way that the honey has topass a good many feet under glass under atiopical sun, befoie it finally runs into abarrel. This metlu)d, Mr. Hart says, giveshim beautiful thick rich honey, and I haveno doubt the solar heat might be utilized to. good advantage in California, and perhapsin our Northern Stales, in ripening honeyartificially. The accompanying apparatus is the inven-tion of Mr. Thomas William Cowan, of Lon-don, England. The 6trays, a, 6, c, d, e, /,with transverse parti-tions, have a (loid)lebottom, with an inchspace between each,for the passage of hotwater. Each tray isconnected by a is a boiler heatedby a lamp or hot water passesfrom tlie boiler suc-cessivelythrough eachof the trays until itoverfiows into thecompartment A, from which the water isconveyed again to the boiler. The green honey is put into B. From here it passes tothe upper end of tray o, Imck and forththrough the partitions, until it reaches thel
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