. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 166 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. this is a mistake, as heat will improve in- stead of injuring either comb or extracted honeys. There are several other conveniences that I might describe, but I fear it would take too much space to make them understood with- out cuts. Mauston, Wis. April 22, 1893. Is an Automatic, Reversible Extractor Really Worth the Effort Being Expended in Its Invention T — Uncapping Machines a Greater Need. C. C. MIIiLEK. "Alas, the slender spigot stream we stay, While from the bung the cider runs ; T THIISK you've X struck
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 166 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. this is a mistake, as heat will improve in- stead of injuring either comb or extracted honeys. There are several other conveniences that I might describe, but I fear it would take too much space to make them understood with- out cuts. Mauston, Wis. April 22, 1893. Is an Automatic, Reversible Extractor Really Worth the Effort Being Expended in Its Invention T — Uncapping Machines a Greater Need. C. C. MIIiLEK. "Alas, the slender spigot stream we stay, While from the bung the cider runs ; T THIISK you've X struck the truth pretty straight, Mr. Editor, in thinking that the matter of uncapping really needs more atten- tion than does some- thing to save the few seconds of time necessary to turn a frame in an ex- tractor ; for, unless the honey is pretty thin, there will be much more time employed in uncapping than in running the extractor. Of late years I have extracted very little, and have never had anything but the Pea- body extractor, and while I have sometimes longed for something better I have felt that for the little extracting I do it doesn't make a great deal of difference. In working the extractor, I don't mind the turning, nor putting in the combs, and iiot so very much taking out the combs, but turning the combs in the extractor, with the attendant liability to get honey daubed over every thing, is the part that makes extract- ing especially disagreeable. Anything to help that is a desideratum. So I don't wonder at the desire for some- thing to reverse the combs automatically. But isn't a little too much stress put on the "automatic" part? How much would you give for an automatic spoon to carry your soup to your mouth? If you had one you would still have to give your attention to. having your mouth at the right place and opening it at the proper time, and as your hand is at the time unoccupied with any- thing else it may just as well be holding the spoon. The simpl
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