. The illustrated Australasian bee manual and complete guide to modern bee culture in the southern hemisphere. With this is incorporated the "New Zealand bee manual" greatly enlarged, revised and mostly rewritten. Bees. BEE MANUAL. 151 of the bands arms project two inches; each being furnished with a pintle, which is made to fit in the socket-pieces, and so form hinges like those of a field gate. These hinges allow of the baskets being turned so as to take each other's place, and thus bring the opposite side of the comb to the front, after one side has been extracted. The baskets tur
. The illustrated Australasian bee manual and complete guide to modern bee culture in the southern hemisphere. With this is incorporated the "New Zealand bee manual" greatly enlarged, revised and mostly rewritten. Bees. BEE MANUAL. 151 of the bands arms project two inches; each being furnished with a pintle, which is made to fit in the socket-pieces, and so form hinges like those of a field gate. These hinges allow of the baskets being turned so as to take each other's place, and thus bring the opposite side of the comb to the front, after one side has been extracted. The baskets turn towards the centre. The spindle, or journal, is a fin. round iron bar, .3Tin. long. A short distance from the top and bottom ends are two six- sided nuts. From each of the six sides of each nut the sup- porting arms of the framework project; these are made of fin. round iron, their ends being screwed on to the framework. The lower part of the spindle works in a socket fastened on to the bottom of the case, while the top passes through a curved bar of iron which is screwed on to opposite sides of the Pig. 67 COWAN'S AUTOMATIC BASKET, A handle lOin. long fits on to the spindle above the bar of iron, and is made secure by a screw-nut. At one side of the bottom a honey-tap is fastened in, and the extractor is complete. The only alteration I found necessary to make, after some trial of the machine, was to attach a gearing with multiplying power, having the driving handle at the side instead of working direct' from the spindle, as in the figure. This enables the operator better to regulate the speed and keep the basket revolving at an uniform rate. With this machine one man can do nearly three times as much work as with a two-comb extractor, and with but little more labour. Mr. T. W. Cowan, who has done much lo improve apiculture in England, has invented an arrangement, shown above, by which the baskets of the extractor are made to turn automati-. Please note that these imag
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