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ily than the two-comb. There is less 

 of that wobbly motion if some of the 

 combs vary in weight. Of course I 

 have never tried the six-comb nor eight- 

 comb extractors, but, for the ordinary 

 apiary, it seems to me as though those 

 machines would not present sufficient 

 advantages over the four-frame to 

 warrant their adoption. In extracting 

 new combs it is better to reverse them 

 twice, turning very slowly the first 

 "whirl." 



AN AUTOMATIC STRAINER. 



Here in the Review-office was a hole 

 in the floor that had been made for a 

 belt to pass \\\) from the cellar when 



Cheese Cloth Strainer on Top of a Tub. 



the printing press was run here. This 

 opening had been stopped np, but I 

 opened it up again, and set the honey 

 extractor right on the floor, with the 

 honey gate over the opening, thus 

 allowing me to run the honey into the 

 cellar. Under this opening I set an- 

 other galvanized iron tub, and covered 

 it with cheese cloth for a strainer, the 

 cloth being sewed to a wire hoop a 

 little larger than the tub. The honey 

 from the extractor fell upon this 

 strainer, and went through into the 

 tub, from whence it ran through a 

 honey gate into a 60-lb. square tin can; 

 the can, in each case, sitting upon 

 platform scales, and an electric bell 

 giving the alarm when the can was 

 full. 



AN ELECTRIC ALARM FOR SHOWING 

 WHEN THE CAN IS FULL. 



In a late Review I gave quite full 

 directions for the arrangement of an 

 electric alarm for giving notice when 

 a can is full of honey, but, as this 

 article is a sort of resume of several 

 things before mentioned, I will touch 

 upon this matter a little more. I car- 

 ried the scales, batterj' and bell out of 

 doors and fixed them up b}' the side of 



Electric Bell That Rings When the Can is 

 Full. 



the house in order that I might take a 

 photograph of them, and show all of 

 the details. The scales used are a 

 pair having a double beam, one beam 



