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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



Charles Blake's hand extractor converted into a power driven machine. 



This is my first season with this ar- 

 rangement and I beHeve if I had as 

 heavy a crop as 1 had last year, I could 

 extract 1,5C0 pounds in a day. I have 

 taken 1.000 pounds out of half-filled 

 supers and one must handle as many 

 light com]:)s as heavy, although not get- 

 ting near so much out of them. The 

 extractor is standing in a corner of a 

 10x10 foot portable extracting house 

 with one side let down to allow the 



photo to be taken. The mark on the 

 side of the extractor is tar, to keep ants 

 from getting up into the can as they 

 won't cross tar. I find power so far 

 ahead of my arm that I hope I am done 

 with man driven extractors. A man 

 can't keep the speed up even though 

 willing, and the engine is as simple as 

 a sewing machine to run. 



Snow Road, Out. 



An Improved Bee Possible, Splendid Results Obtained. 



LEO ELLIS GATELEY 



•^ O almost every subject may be 

 l^_y found existing more than a sin- 

 gle point of view, and usually 

 they are all well worth hearing. If 

 we ever are to advance along any line 

 we must be careful not to unconsciously 

 adopt the attitude of the proverbial 

 woman who, in her own mind, divided 

 every question in dispute into "my side 

 and the wrong side." 



Whenever reference is made to im- 



pro\ing the present races of bees, a 

 storm of protest is inunediately raised 

 on the sickly grounds that the difficul- 

 ties surrounding the mating problem are 

 too numerous to make the thing a suc- 

 cess. Xo theoretical argument, how- 

 ever, can be stronger than personal ex- 

 perience, and in spite of what others 

 may hold to the contrary, we desire to 

 go on record as saying that no stock 

 will respond more readily to intelligent 



