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EXTRACTOR. 



t;isle will become educated so he can deter- 

 mine the percentage of the one to the other. 

 Then by putting in a small amount of alfal- 

 fa, which he can always procure, he will be 

 able to supply his trade with the proper 

 blend. 



If one lives in a locality where alfalfa is 

 produced exclusively, there will be no need 

 of having a special blend, because the pure 

 alfalfa can usually be obtained in most of 

 the irrigated regions. 



UEQL'IKEMENTS OF THE LAW AS TO LABELS. 



It will be well to state that the national 

 pure-food law-, and in some cases State laws, 

 requires that the label shall indicate the ex- 

 act contents of a package; and therefore it 

 would not be advisable to call a blend, such 

 as we have described, a pwre clover. It will 

 l)e perfectly proper to say •' pure extracted 

 honey bottled Ijy .John .Jones;'' Ijut .John 

 .Jones must not say '' pure extracted honey ; 

 from the apiary of .John .Jones"' unless such 

 honey actually did come from his ajjiary. 



LABELING BOTTLED HOXEY. 



As a general rule, use small circular la- 

 bels. The big ones that cover up the whole 

 jar do not usually afford as pretty an effect 

 as the small neat tasty labels that give the 

 customer a good chance to see the honey. It 

 is the honey that sells; and if it is a fine 

 quality, get the grocer to display it in such 

 a way in his window that the light will spar- 

 kle through it, and we will guarantee it will 

 sell. 



EZTR ACTOR. Tlie extractor, like the 

 movaljle frame, is one of the things that 

 have made a revolution in liee-keeping. It 

 was invented in the year I860 by Major 

 Francesco de Hruschka, of Venice, who 

 died at the good old age of 7.5, in the year 

 1888. Like a good many other inventions, 

 its discovery was made by accident. His 

 little boy chanced to put a piece of comb in 

 a Ijasket to which was attached a bit of 

 rope. With rope in hand, the boy began to 

 whirl it. The centrifugal force caused a few 

 drops of honey to be thrown out of the bas- 

 ket around in the air, and the father, seeing 

 it, was keen enough to see that in this 

 was a principle, and the nucleus of a big in- 

 vention whereby it became unnecessary any 

 longer to smash the combs up and strain the 

 honey out in tlie old-fashioned way. He 

 very soon constructed a rude extractor that 

 demonstrated the practical utility of the 

 discovery; and, shortly afterward, perfect- 

 ed the machine. 



Among the early extractors brought out in 

 this country was one made I^y .J.L. Peabody. 

 This was so constructed that the whole can 

 revolved, and the honey ran out througli a 

 hole cut in the center. But this was poorly 

 adapted to the wants of the Ijee-keeper. In 

 1869 A. I. Root constructed what he called 

 the " Novice " honey-extractor. 



This was so great an improvement over 

 all those that had preceded, that it found 

 a ready sale at once. The inside baskets 

 for holding the combs, in order to combine 

 lightness with the greatest strength, were 

 made of folded-tin bars and tinned wire 

 cloth, four meshes to the inch. The crank 

 was geared so that one revolution made 

 three revolutions of the baskets. 



KEVERSING EXTBACTOUS. 



The basket in the Novice extractor re- 

 quires the pulling-out of the combs in order 

 to present the unextracted sides next to the 

 can. This wastes time, as well as being 

 awkward. About the time A. I. Root was 



EXJKACTOK WITH SFACE FOR HOXEV BE- 

 LOW REVOLVING FRA3IE. 



experimenting with extractors. Thrjs. Wni. 

 Cowan, editor of the British Bee Jounial, 

 con.structed what was then known as and is 

 still called the Cowan reversible extractor. 

 To obviate the necessity of removing the 

 combs, the pockets, or wire-cloth cages, were 

 hinged, like an ordinary door, to a reel with- 

 out a center-shaft. Combs could be put into 

 these pockets ; and after one .side was ex- 

 tracted the pocket could be swung on its 

 hinges the other side to, door fashion, with- 

 out even stopping the machine, by meiely 

 slowing up so the left hand could catch 

 the edge of each pocket, throwing it around. 

 The cut next shown, while it does not rep- 

 re.seut the original extractor marie by Mi'. 

 Co'.van, .shows the Americanized machine. 



