. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. February, 1910. The Capping Can—Has it Any Value? UY C. r. UADANT. "I WILL never forget the reply tliat I I got from a beekeeper in Cuba when I asked him why it was that no one ever used the Dadant uncapping can, the price of which is $ He re- plied that no one but suckers ever bought them. And I think he answered right. (With upolo^'ifs to Dadant & Sons). " For a capping can I use two kero- sene tins, one above the other, the bot- tom of the upper one perforated. Place a board or sheet of tin, with cleats across the two ends, in th
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. February, 1910. The Capping Can—Has it Any Value? UY C. r. UADANT. "I WILL never forget the reply tliat I I got from a beekeeper in Cuba when I asked him why it was that no one ever used the Dadant uncapping can, the price of which is $ He re- plied that no one but suckers ever bought them. And I think he answered right. (With upolo^'ifs to Dadant & Sons). " For a capping can I use two kero- sene tins, one above the other, the bot- tom of the upper one perforated. Place a board or sheet of tin, with cleats across the two ends, in the bottom of the upper tin, and I don't know of any- thing that will better answer the pur- pose The only fault with a cap- ping can of this kind is that they are small, but as the tins cost only 5 cents each, the apiarist can have plenty of them. Twenty was about the right number for ;—W. J. Young, in the IVeslcrn Honey Bee, October, 1915. The" capping can," improperly called "uncapping can," is the only imple- ment ever devised by the writer. It never was patented, and the Dadants never manufactured it, so the afology tvas unnecessary. The Western Honey Bee is a very practical bee paper, and its "suckers" are probably few. Living in the " Sucker State" we have perhaps more around us. But we dislike to think that those of our readers who keep bees in California and read the Western Honey Bee also, might try to follow the method of friend Young and keep 20 tin vessels for a capping can, to avoid the reputation of " ; In 1878, after 10 years' use of the honey extractor, we had not yet found a neat and practical method of drain- ing the cappings and disposing of them. We successively used a big bread pan, a wash boiler, a tub with sieve and a 1 1 Original Capping Can After 37 Years Use American ^^e Journal tin-lined box made of pine lumber. None of these implements was handy. I wanted a light, capacious vessel,
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