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GLEANINGS IN BEE CLTLTURE. 



Sept. 



considci'cd xcry \hh)\: and my avcrajii' was as 

 liish as was made. I ticlicvc. wliilc s(mu> hoiislil 

 lionoy of me to feed in llic fall, luiving failed to 

 got onougli to carry tlio l)oes tliroiigli. 

 Hawks Park, Fla.. July 2:2. W. S. Haiit. 



Friend H., wo aro exceedingly obliged to yoii 

 for the magniticoiit picture you have given us. 

 We congratulate oui' artists on having copied 

 the photograph so well. The palniettoos have 

 always been a class of vegetati(m wonderfully 

 attractive to me, both in my trip to N(>w Orleans 

 and the late one to California; and I assure our 

 readers that no picture can exaggerate the 

 beauty of vigorously growing specimens of 

 many of the varieties. Friend H., we are very 

 glad to know that you have made so good a re- 

 port during this season, while so many have 

 given us such discouraging accounts. If your 

 hives are not Simplicity. I should judge they 

 come pretty near it, from their looks in the pic- 

 ture. What a pleasant place that must be to 

 work! I suppose the ground under the tre(>s 

 and around the hives is sandy and clean, as it 

 usually is in tlu' home of the palmetto. 



GLASS PAPEE-WEIGIIT SEOWING THE 

 MATHEMATICS OF THE EONEY-COMB. 



A tki;k uodixahedhox. 



We have finally succeeded in getting a thou- 

 sand glass i)aper-\\(>ights. such as are desciibed 

 m our heading. ]!<'fore we could get them, the 

 order had to h(> sent to (lermany to have them 

 made, and it has taken a little over a vear and 

 a half to get them out. The adjoining cut 

 taken from the A H C book, shows what tliev 

 are like. 



A TliUE I)01)ErAIlP:DK0X. 



This beautiful figure has exactly 1.'.' sides; (> 

 of the 12 sides ai'e exactly on the angle of the 

 cell of the hon(\v-coml): and the 12 lozenge- 

 shaped sides are exactly the shape of the ligure 

 the bees make in building perfect cells. The 

 paper-weight is a little less than 1?-X inches 

 through its longest diameter. It is made of 

 beautiful crystalline glass, and is gi-ound so 

 that it sparkles like a huge diamond. They 

 are the prettiest objects that can be found to 

 grace a writing-table, or even a center-table or 

 ornamental bracket. The usual price is .50 cts. 

 each. By having them mad(> to order in thou- 

 sand lots, w(> are enabled to sell them for 20 cts.; 

 3 for 3.5 cts. ; or in lots of 10 or more. 15 cts. each. 

 If wanted by nuiil, the postage will be 3 cts. 

 each, or we will furnish one as a premium to 

 everybody who sends us a subscription to 

 Gleanings from some one who has nc^ver taken 

 it before. This beautiful figun- will be of inter- 

 est to bee-keejx'rs. as it exeniplilies and illus- 

 trates so clearly the ijroblem the honey-bee 

 solved in making this lozenge-shaix'd figui-e 

 with its angles so mathematicallv exact. In 



giving lectures, oi' even in giving a talk on this, 

 wonderful ijrolilem. this little tigurc illustrates 

 th(> suliject most beautifully. Si'c the A li C 

 book for full i)articulars. 



ANOTHER REVERSIBLE EXTRACTOR. 



THE liEVERSING DONE AFTOMATICALEY WHEN 

 I'NDEIi FULL MOTION. 



There is a demand among bee-k(>epers who 

 run business on a large scale, foi- a high-grade 

 <'xtractor that will extract the combs on both 

 sides without stoi)ping to rev(n'se tli«> baskets. 

 Som(> attempts have becui made to get uj) such 

 an extractor in this countiy, but so far they 

 have not been a success, because they tried to 

 reverse tli(> baskets a(i<iiiist centrifugal force. 

 I send draw ings of the inside gear of a new ex- 

 tractor which reverses the combs hy fciitrifiigol 

 force ivliilc (jdiiKj (tt full Kpccd. 



MCINTYKE S PItOI'OSEI) KEVEUSIHLE EXTIlAfTOR. 



Fig. 1 shows the extractor ready to i'ec(Mv& 

 the combs full of honey. When the baskets are 

 full you take hold of the little crank on tlm 

 axle of the basket and turn it half way round, 

 when the baskets will appear as in Fig. 2. 

 Turning one basket turns all at tln^ same time. 

 A pin drops into a slot in the hub of the center- 

 wheel, which holds all the baskets from turning^ 

 out again until the first side is extracted. When 

 ready to reverse, this pin is drawn out of the 

 slot by means of a little rod running up in a 

 groo^'e in the center^axle, and terminating in a 

 knob above the gearing. The combs, being^ 

 heaviest next the top-bar. will cause the baskets 

 to start, when they will all fly out as in Fig. 1. 

 and extract the other side. It will not be hard 

 to sto]) when all th(> honey is out of the combs; 

 but a brake can be put on if thought necessary. 

 It will have to be geared, because the radiua 

 distance is much less than in the old-styl« 

 I'eveisible, even when the baskets are out, as in 

 Fig. 1. It will require a can about the same siz« 

 as the Stanley extractor. The large wheel in 

 the center is 11 inches in diameter, and the 

 wheels on the axles of the baskets are 4 inches 

 in diameter. The baskets should be l%xlOxl7X 

 inside for the L. fi-ame. 



The readers of Gleanings will understand 

 that this (extractor has never been manufac- 

 tured. The figures are drawn from imagina- 

 tion; scale, ^ for the L. frame. I am not in the 

 supply business, and never expect to be. If any- 

 one should manufacture them, and find them a 

 good thing, a complimentary extractor will pay 

 the inventor for tiie idea. J. F. McIntyue. 



Fillmore. Cal.. July 1. 



The Idea, friend M., is quite ingenious. Of 

 course, it remains to be seen whether it will 

 woi'k as well in practice as it does on paper. 

 Yes. there is a demand for an extractor for 

 large honey-produc(>rs. 



