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Title: Gleanings in bee culture
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Bees Bee culture
Publisher: (Medina, Ohio, A. I. Root Co.)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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we used a sugar-kettle havingsufficient water in to surround the honey nice-ly. The objection is, a waste of fuel, and theannoyance from smoke. Not long ago some ble stove we can warm the honey as fast as wecan fill 1-lb. bottles or smaller. As it takesabout an hour to get the first lot ready bystarting at 7 oclock, the honey will be readyby 8. We can then take off 40 lbs. everyhalf-hour, which means one hour for thisquantity when using two tins. This would befrom 700 to 800 1-lb. bottles in a day. If thehoney is granulated it is absolutely necessaryto stand it in water ; and then two boilers ona cook-stove would be better. You do not re-quire to use water if the honey is sufficientlyliquid to pour. Though honey is strained asit comes from the extractor, we do this againthrough thin cheese-cloth on the can we fillfrom. Keep the honey on the stove coveredalso, if for no other reason than to preservethe aroma. When filling 1-lb. bottles we takethe tare of each, using a double-beam scale
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MR. DEADMAN AND BOYS BOTTLING HONEY. one (unlike those we read about who live inMuskoka) walked oft with our kettle; andwhen looking for it, or something to take itsplace, I found on a heap of old iron the read-ily movable stove seen in the picture. I havebeen glad more than once that my kettle wasstolen, as this stove is so much better. It isnothing more than the oven part of an old-fashioned cook-stove. There are no legs andno bottom, so we set it on the ground andmove it where we please. Two lots of honeyare warmed at one time ; and as the pipe is atthe back, and not, as with box stoves, at theend, it warms with equal rapidity. This is anadvantage in itself. With this readily mova- for this purpose. We can then guaranteeeach bottle to hold this quantity. We arecareful, however, not to give much over this.Half an ounce over on each bottle would mean15(5 lbs. when filling 5000, as we did one year.Then you may meet some merchants who willsay you are charging too high ; and when be-gin

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