Gleanings in bee culture . their extractorsby hand. It is needless to saythat these men have found itpaid them well. Consideringthe tirst cost of theengine, however, itmay be that, if thebee-keeper usedthis engine for no a second of time. After new combs are in,the tightening of the driving-belt speeds upthe reel in about two seconds. The extratime saved keeps the combs revolving justthat much longer, which means that the cellswill be left dryer of honey. The fact thatthe work is much easier need hardly be men-tioned. The breeze created by the rapidlyrevolving reel is suthcient to make the hot
Gleanings in bee culture . their extractorsby hand. It is needless to saythat these men have found itpaid them well. Consideringthe tirst cost of theengine, however, itmay be that, if thebee-keeper usedthis engine for no a second of time. After new combs are in,the tightening of the driving-belt speeds upthe reel in about two seconds. The extratime saved keeps the combs revolving justthat much longer, which means that the cellswill be left dryer of honey. The fact thatthe work is much easier need hardly be men-tioned. The breeze created by the rapidlyrevolving reel is suthcient to make the hottestextracting-house quite cool, which makes thework a real pleasure instead of a drudgery. Now that the gasoline-engine has reachedsvich a high state of perfection, small steam-outfits are almost unknown among steam-engine with a boiler is a complicat-ed and expensive outfit—expensive in thefirst cost and in the cost of where as much as 30 horse-power isneeded, gasoline-engines are much more. FIG. 1.—A ONE-HOKSE-POWER GASOLINE-ENGINE CONNECTED TO EKillT-FRAME EXTRACTOR. For economy of floor space and convenience of the levers this arrangement is perhaps the best. other purpose than to extract honey, hewould be paying a pretty high price for hispower; Imt we shall show in this article thatthe expense of running the engine, includinggasoline, oil, and repairs, and the intereston the investment, is not nearly so great asthe expense of hiring a man to do the the engine may be used for many dilTei-ent kinds of work, so that the laige produc-ers will find that it pays many times overto buy an engine. Cleaner work can be done with a power-driven extractor, both on account of thegreater speed and because the combs can bekept revolving until the veiy instant thatthey are to be stopped, when the l)elt mayhe loosened and the V)rake applied, bringingthe reel to a standstill in a little more than practical. They are simpler and cheaper,
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