. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Dec. 18, 1902. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 805 combined ; also a picture of my wax-extractor in operation, showinfT my wife and myself. This extractor is an improvement over the Swiss. It has a cone-shaped bottom so as to make it stronp to resist the screw ; a cone-shaped plunger to work freely so as to. Outline of Mr. Fisher's Wax-Extractor. follow down the combs as they melt, and keep the steam in contact with same. It is guided at the top lid so it has to stay straight. The steam comes up the small pipe from the boiler into the larger one in the plun
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Dec. 18, 1902. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 805 combined ; also a picture of my wax-extractor in operation, showinfT my wife and myself. This extractor is an improvement over the Swiss. It has a cone-shaped bottom so as to make it stronp to resist the screw ; a cone-shaped plunger to work freely so as to. Outline of Mr. Fisher's Wax-Extractor. follow down the combs as they melt, and keep the steam in contact with same. It is guided at the top lid so it has to stay straight. The steam comes up the small pipe from the boiler into the larger one in the plunger, then down, and carries the wax out to the screen ; from there it goes to the outlet pipe to a dish or pan to receive it. Too much pres- sure must not be put on the screw, for the more pressure you put on it the higher the steam pressure. The steam will carry the wax out to the periphery of the machine, and there will not be any left in the refuse. It works to per- fection, as the smile on the faces tell. Northampton Co., Pa. Jamks H. Fisher. The De.\th of A. I. Root's Mothek is announced in Gleanings in Bee-Culture. She died full of good works and full of years, having lived another score of years be- yond the " three score years and ; Mr. R. D. Cleveland's observation hive with bees appears on the first page. He has this to say about it : I send herewith a photograph of one of my hives which, perhaps from its singularity, your readers may find more interesting than one of my whole apiary. As you will see, it is an observation hive which I made myself, and have placed on a bracket shelf attached to the sill of the sitting- room window. I took a comb of brood with two queen-cells and all the bees and put in the observatory, and they went to work as if they had always lived there. The queens hatched in about a week, but we never saw but one of ttiem. A few days after we saw " H. R. ; return from her bridal trip, and since we have watched all the var
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