ADVERTISERS' DEPARTMENT. 



WB9IND FRIENDS:— 'Tis our intention to 

 -1-^ use the inside of the cover for adver- 

 tisements lolien we get 'em. Until we do, we'll 

 try and gossip a little with our readers on 

 some topic of so little value that 'twill not 

 be worth while to preserve it when you 

 strip off the covers preparatory to binding. 

 EXTRACTORS seem to be one of the 

 principal topics of the day, and we get 

 many letters like the following : 



Unfortunately like many others, I have not more 

 than two hives alike and consequently the frames are 

 all different sizes; two hives, frames 15 inches wide 

 and 13 deep; 1, 15 J£ wide, 13# deep; 1, lfi wide, and 

 14 deep; two 10 wide, and 11 deep; now what I want 

 especially to know is, if with an Ext. for the L. frame 

 you can extract the honey from all my frames men- 

 tioned above, or whether you can only use one sized 

 frame, if so it would not be worth while to get an 

 extractor till I get all my bees on frames of uniform 

 dimensions, which I mean to do as soon as possible. 

 Also, I want to know if you sell the Metal Corners for 

 the top of the frames without the bottom corners, or 

 otherwise. 



The Gleanings come most punctually, always 

 ahead of every thing else, but never too soon. 



How can you tell at this season if a colony is Queen- 

 less ? 



Excuse this hurried communication. 



Yours truly, John McMukdo, 



Stromness, Ontario, March 13th, 1871. 



"We can make Ext'rs, and do at the same 

 price, that will take in any sized frame, but 

 the owner is then obliged to expend consider- 

 able strength and time uselessly. 



For instance a very large, strong frame must 

 be made to extract one of the Quinby combs, 

 and we are obliged to work slower on account 

 of the extra weight of every thing; yet as 

 there are only eight combs in the hive, we can 

 get along about as fast after all. Again a 

 very light small frame will answer for the 

 Gallup combs, and we can handle them so 

 quickly that we get along nearly as fast if 

 there are twelve combs to be handled instead of 

 eight. 



So far, so well, but suppose we should un- 

 dertake to use a Quinby Ext'r for a Gallup 

 comb? do you not see the inconsistency V 

 Now our friend mentions a comb 16x14, this 

 is still worse, for the Ext'r frames would have 

 to be made at least !&% inches wide to take 

 this comb in, and perhaps 18 iuches long to 

 take in some other one, and to whirl all of 

 this, get it up to speed, start and stop it quick- 

 ly, for a small comb, would be too much like a 

 boy of half a dozen summers trying to run a 

 foot-race with his fathers boots on. 



In ordering an Ext'r always give us the size 

 of the comb or combs you wish to use. If you 



have but few hives of odd sizes you had better 

 cut them down to one sized frame if possible. 

 We always make the Ext'r frame % inch wi- 

 der than the comb, and where the frames are 

 long, the wire cloth may just as well be two 

 inches shorter than the comb, allowing the 

 latter to project one inch above and one below, 

 this is perfectly safe and allows the machinery 

 to be made lighter. 



We can furnish the top corners alone if 

 desired, at $1.25 per hundred, if sent by mail 

 25c. additional. 



We omitted mentioning them alone, on our 

 price list because 'tis impossible to make a 

 nice light frame without the lower ones also; 

 for such strips as make a substantial frame 

 with the corners, could not possibly be nailed 

 or fastened at the bottom securely, in any 

 other way that we know of. We have pur- 

 posely kept all mention of the corners out of 

 print, preferring that they should make their 

 own way into general use ; this they are now 

 doing at a rate quite satisfactory to us. 



"We shall try to mail Gleanings without 

 fail, early enough so that we may reasonably 

 expect it to be in the hands of our readers 

 promptly, by the first of each month. 



One letter I have says, "Sfovice tells how to make- 

 one" (extractor) "but they are like his dollar hives, 

 it takes two to make one, and no frames at that, his 

 extractors are a simple can that sits on the floor, no 

 frame to hold it, or knife to uncap with, infant it's too 

 cheap, good as far as it goas, — it wants /inisMngi n 

 There you've got it, so solve our problems. 



We like Gleanings very much, only don't like ad- 

 vertisements on the pages of a book worth binding, 

 and would like an index separate from your circular 

 to bind with it. 



Success to the " wind-mill print." 



New Orleans, La. Jas. H. Young, 



Just exactly. "Were we to make a bench for 

 our Ext'r to stand on, that would be just right 

 to allow the molasses gate to stand over the 

 bung hole of a barrel, as it should be, it would 

 be an awkward thing to ship, and most of all, 

 our friends would have to pay more freight or 

 express charges on it, than would pay for ma- 

 king a good permanent one just where it is to 

 be used. "We always endeavor to consider our 

 customers pockets as well as our own. ;, 



As very many of our customers had pur- 

 chased a knife l>efore we sold Ext'rs, we have 

 thought best to fix the price without knives ; 

 of what use more than one knife is, in the 

 Apiary we never could tell. P. G. never uses 

 more than one, although we have dozens of 

 them on hand. 



'Tis true our machines might look better if 



painted, but if they were our patrons would 



have to pay for it, and we cannot really see 

 Continued on h<u-k cover. 



