Gleanings in bee culture . se-power machine, and does the work former years we had extractors at eachapiary; but now we have disposed of all oth-er extractors and bought this machine, andwe are more than pleased with the results. Any one, even though he has never ridden abicycle, can ride this machine safely, with alittle care at the start, as this railroad attach-ment holds the whole rigidly in place. Allthe operator has to do is to propel it. 1 haveused this machine for six years, and find itbetter than a horse or an automobile; in fact,were it not for this I would have to take atie
Gleanings in bee culture . se-power machine, and does the work former years we had extractors at eachapiary; but now we have disposed of all oth-er extractors and bought this machine, andwe are more than pleased with the results. Any one, even though he has never ridden abicycle, can ride this machine safely, with alittle care at the start, as this railroad attach-ment holds the whole rigidly in place. Allthe operator has to do is to propel it. 1 haveused this machine for six years, and find itbetter than a horse or an automobile; in fact,were it not for this I would have to take atie ticket to go to my apiaries. The out-apiaries are located higher thanBoyne Falls, which is about 16 miles fiomPetoskey. I am able to coast nearly half thisdistance. All 1 have to do is to put my footon the coaster brake occasionally to avoidgoing too fast. I have two of these machinesat the present time. Fig. 6 shows our home. My oldest boy,Johnny, and I are ready to start with thewheel and railroad attachment for the out-. FIG. 3.—FILLING AND LABELING BOTTLES. The method of flllinp the bottles is here shown. The top label in the bunch is pasted, and the bottle rolledover It. Thus the labels are put on without being handled at all. We never could think of going back to thehand machines now, any more than farmerswould think of going back to the flail forthrashing their grain. We think this method of extracting hon-ey in our apiaries the cheapest and most sat-isfactory way, as the extracting can be donemuch better. Practically all of the honeycan be removed from the combs; and onething which we were surprised to learn wasthat we never broke a comb in doing it. My method of going to the out-apiaiieswhich are located along the railroads isshown in Fig. 7. Twelve to sixteen milesper hour can be traveled with perfect ease. apiaries. All of our bees are kept in out-apiaries. Unlike most arrangements for filling glass-es for the retail trade is the device construct-ed and used by Mr.
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