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THE BEE-KEEPERS" REVIEW 



Put Your Foot on "B" and Open the Door 



The device is very simple, and prob- 

 ably there are lots of bee-keepers who 

 would have had similar ones had they 

 known how simple it was, but, like me, 

 they have worried along and got the 

 door open somehow, either by holding 

 the hive between the body and the 

 honey-house while they thus disengaged 

 one hand to open the door, or the more 

 wearisome way of setting the hive down, 

 opening the door and picking it up 

 again ; all this with a back already near 

 the breaking point, and this for the lack 

 of a simple device you can make your- 

 self in twenty minutes. It will save 

 you more than that the first day you 

 extract. 



It is made as follows: Remove the 

 outside door knob and to take its place 

 make a little iron, like the illustration 

 A, fig. 1. The square hole can be made 

 by drilling a hole of the right diameter 

 and cutting out the corners with a three- 

 cornered file. Fasten this in place with 



the little screw you took out of the 

 knob and attach a string to the other 

 end just long enough to reach to the 

 foot lever, B, fig. 1, which should hang 

 about three inches from the floor when 

 the door is shut. When you wish to 

 open the door put your foot on the 

 lever and the pull on the string turns 

 the knob and releases the door, which 

 swings back with the force of the slight 

 blow you gave it when you struck the 

 lever. If you get the levers too heavy 

 so that the door is inclined to open of 

 its own accord, you can remedy it by 

 placing a spool so the string draws over 

 it and opens the door Iiy an upward 

 turn of the knob, C, fig. 1. 



TO HOLD THE EXTRACTOR FIRMLY TO PLACE. 



For a long time I struggled along 

 with an extractor always vibrating, es- 

 pecially if I failed to get my combs 

 well balanced, or if one of the combs 

 happened to have some pollen in it and 



