The American apiculturist: a journal devoted to scientific and practical beekeeping . numberpublished just ten years since. All supply dealers, who paid usfor card in dealers list for lastyear, can, by sending us fifty cents,have their card continued the re-mainder of this year. Please remitpromptly so as to save trouble inarranging list,13 One of our subscribers, Mr. Sawyer of Muscatine, Iowa, haswintered one hundred colonies ofbees, on the Langstroth frame andon the summer stands, without theloss of a single colony, and theyare in fine condition. This is avaluable report, as the past wi
The American apiculturist: a journal devoted to scientific and practical beekeeping . numberpublished just ten years since. All supply dealers, who paid usfor card in dealers list for lastyear, can, by sending us fifty cents,have their card continued the re-mainder of this year. Please remitpromptly so as to save trouble inarranging list,13 One of our subscribers, Mr. Sawyer of Muscatine, Iowa, haswintered one hundred colonies ofbees, on the Langstroth frame andon the summer stands, without theloss of a single colony, and theyare in fine condition. This is avaluable report, as the past winterhas been a severe one. It is ouropinion, supported by practical ex-perience, that those colonies thathave been wintered on the summerstands are in a much better condi-tion to build up rapidly than theywould be had the^- been winteredin the cellar. We have just received fromStanley Bros, the following descrip-tion of their new honey extractorto which we referred in a recentnumber. Stanleys AUTOMATIC honey EXTRACTOR. The accompanying cut shows ahoney extractor that not only ex-. tracts from four combs at once,but also reveises or changes sideswith the combs after one side hasbeen extracted thus presenting theother side simply by reversing themotion of the crank. The comb baskets or pockets are 114 THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. made of wire-cloth ; large euoiiglito contain the size of combs usedand with sufficient space inside sothat they may be easily placedwithout injury from the wirecloth. The comb baskets are made toslip on the hook at top, and atbottom they have a double crotchto fit the arch at lower corner. Asthe extractor stands at rest thecomb baskets are all pointingtoward the centre as they hang onhooks at the top, and the doublecrotch at bottom rests squarelyagainst the arch at bottom of the reel begins to turn, the fourcomb baskets containing the combsare at the same time thrown off thevertical centre and all pass roundin one direction to the four sidesof ree
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