. Gleanings in bee culture . ped out of the State by the ton;and yet the market quotations on honeyoften read dark and southern. The mid-dlemen have a large load of accountabilityfor the black name they have given theFlorida honeys—dumping them all in asSouthern, with no effort, apparently, toclassify or differentiate; in fact, it appearsthat they may have done so purposely in BEE-KEEPING FOR ILLUS- The JMcIntyre Uncapping-box vs. a Large Cap-ping-melter. BY E. D. TOWNSEND. The engraving in connection with this ar-ticle shows one corner of our headquarterhoney-house in Charle
. Gleanings in bee culture . ped out of the State by the ton;and yet the market quotations on honeyoften read dark and southern. The mid-dlemen have a large load of accountabilityfor the black name they have given theFlorida honeys—dumping them all in asSouthern, with no effort, apparently, toclassify or differentiate; in fact, it appearsthat they may have done so purposely in BEE-KEEPING FOR ILLUS- The JMcIntyre Uncapping-box vs. a Large Cap-ping-melter. BY E. D. TOWNSEND. The engraving in connection with this ar-ticle shows one corner of our headquarterhoney-house in Charlevoix Co. This build-ing is 18X26 feet, but is built on the sameplan as the one at the Springbrook yard, de-scribed in my last article. Unlike thesmaller 12X16 extracting-houses, the insidearrangement is such that the uncapping-tank, extractor, etc., are away from thewalls, so that the operator can get all aroundthem, this arrangement being more con-venient where there is room. We were for- 1911 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 217. tunate in securing this structure alreadybuilt and located just where we wanted toplace our bees at this point. The wood-chopper was desirous of selling, because thetimber had been cut back so far that he ei-ther had to sell or move. The partitions,windows, and old doors were removed, andour regular shop windows put in at eachside, and then a wide panel door was locatednear one corner in the end, just to the leftof the extractor as it stands in the picture. After all the repairing was done, the in-side walls were tar-papered as usual to keepout robber bees. We have never been ableto find any other paper that the mice willnot gnaw, thus making it necessary to dorepairing each spring. The tar paper lastsfor years, and the only time it requires re-pairing is when the building is taken down,and moved and set up at a new , of course, some of the paper is torn. In the foreground of the picture is one ofour Mclntyre uncapping-boxes. This tankis one o
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