. The honey bee: a manual of instruction in apiculture. the receptacle for the wax,the whole so arranged as to enable one to tiltit at such an angle as will catch the directrays of the sun. The effectiveness of thesolar wax extractor is increased by havingthe glass doubled, and adding also a reflector,such as a mirror or a sheet of bright important advantage of the solar waxextractor is the ease with which small quan-tities of comb can be rendered. By havingthis machine much is therefore saved thatmight be ruined by wax moth larva? if allow-ed to accumulate, besides serving at the sam
. The honey bee: a manual of instruction in apiculture. the receptacle for the wax,the whole so arranged as to enable one to tiltit at such an angle as will catch the directrays of the sun. The effectiveness of thesolar wax extractor is increased by havingthe glass doubled, and adding also a reflector,such as a mirror or a sheet of bright important advantage of the solar waxextractor is the ease with which small quan-tities of comb can be rendered. By havingthis machine much is therefore saved thatmight be ruined by wax moth larva? if allow-ed to accumulate, besides serving at the sametime to increase these pests about the wax obtained by solar heat is also ofsuperior quality, being clean, never water-soaked nor scorched, andalso light in color, owing to the bleaching action of the sunlight. The cost of a medium-sized solar wax extractor does not exceed thatof the larger Swiss steam extractors, yet of the two the former is likelyto prove by far the more valuable, even though it can be used onlyduring the warmer Fig Excelsior wax extractor. QUEEX-IXTRODUCIXG CAGES. In every apiary there should be several of these on hand. The bestare such as permit the caging of the queen directly on the comb overcells of honey. A little practice will enable anyone to make veryserviceable and cheap cages for introducing queens. From a piece ofwire cloth having ten to twelve meshes to the inch cut a strip 2 inchesfldde; cut this in piecos 4J inches long, roll each piece around a stickto give it a cylindrical form, lap the edges, and sew with a piece ofwire. Then in one end of this cylinder make slits three-quarters inch IMPLEMENTS. 51 apart and three-quarters inch deep, and bend over the tongues thusformed so as to close this end of the cage. With the flat end of apencil press warm wax or comb into the bottom inside to give it unravel five or six strands of the wire cloth at the other wire points left after unraveling these strands ma
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