AD VERTISERS' DEPARTMENT. 



SUNDRY MATTERS. 



"X C/fE presume you all know that we have 



J J promised to put nothing of value on 

 the covers; but they must be filled with some- 

 thing, at least we think so, and we have so 

 many letters of value on hand, it seems a pity 

 to waste any roiftn. 



Extractors seem still to be an interesting 

 theme for conversation — no, we mean postal 

 cards, and we give a few specimens. If they 

 do seem to favor our own wares please excuse 

 it as 'tis on the cover. While we think of it, 

 some one writes that we have not given Wind- 

 er's new extractor, in our remarks about it, 

 the credit of enabling the combs to be turned 

 without taking them ou f - ; this is true, and we 

 beg pardon for forgetting it, but even then we 

 cannot think this advantage would be anything 

 near a compensation for the great disadvan- 

 tage of using a heavy apparatus. 



Our Extractors are all made now so that the 

 castings are put on with screws, and after the 

 season is over, the whole of the machinery can 

 quickly be removed, so we have nothing but a 

 plain stout can, useful as a milk can, or for 

 many other purposes. In many other respects 

 it has been simplified. We would again most 

 earnestly request our friends to be a little more 

 explicit in ordering. We have in three cases 

 this season, sent the machines arranged for a 

 frame different from what was wanted, and in 

 one case as the machines went a considerable 

 distance, the express charges were quite heavy 

 for returning them and sending others. Our 

 friend in question sent us $18.00 for two Ex- 

 tractors, wanted immediately — not another word 

 of explanation ; as we had just advertised the 

 Standard machines for $9.00 each but no other, 

 we thought we were safe in sending them, but 

 found when they reached their destination 

 that he used Langstroth frames. 



Again, a friend in Iowa wrote inquiring if 

 we could send a machine for the Am. and L. 

 frame both ; we replied at once, that we often 

 made them so, for in fact a Quinby machine, 

 just took in both nicely, but that 'twould be 

 heavier to manage than one made for either of 

 the frames mentioned alone. He shortly sent 

 us an order but in it made no mention of his 

 previous inquiry, and from the amount of sim- 

 ilar correspondence 'twas impossible for us to 

 recollect any thing of the kind. The result 

 was, that we sent an L. machine, (he having 

 ordered a lot of Langstroth frames with it) and 

 then learned to our sorrow that he had more 

 Am. frames than any other, and that he surely 

 supposed we would know what was wanted, 

 from his having sent the former letter of inqui- 

 ry. Please tell exactly wlutt is wanted when yon 

 make the order, and during the busy season if 

 you could put the order with all particulars 

 regarding it in a separate place from the rest 

 of your letter, 'twould be such a favor to us, 

 when we are anxious to accomodate you all, as 

 well, and as quickly as we can. 



We have frequently had orders for frames 

 that obliged us to delay them until we could 

 await an answer to tell us what kiud of frames 

 were wanted. 



per," our "Black eyed Baby" nine months oM can turn 

 it with ease-jfoct / It beats anything ol" the kind I ev- 

 er saw. It almoSt goes itself and 1 don't know but 

 that it will quite after I "grease" it. With manj 

 thanks, and kind wishes, I .'tin, 8. F. N'ewm \.\ 



Norwalk, O. June loth, 1874. 



We have tried wire cloth fixed in the bot- 

 tom of ext'r for a strainer, but have never 

 found any thing so simple and efficient, as the 

 arrangement described in Vol. 1, pages 18 and 

 41, viz.: a little batr made of cheese cloth, to 

 hang in the bun-? hole of the barrel, the same 

 being supported by a rin<; of wire sewed in top. 



FKIEND NOVICE;— Bees are doing well here now, 

 the extractor works to a charm, have taken from '■) 

 colonies as follows: 



June 4th, 40 lbs, 



'* tith 44 " 



" loth 166 " 



" 15th 102 " 



352 " 

 Bees are doing pretty well hut the weather is most 

 too cool for good yield of honey. Have not increased 

 any and shall not until after the Linn. This was all 

 taken by actual weight, not guess woik. 



Wirt C. H. W. Va. June Hth^ E. W. Halk. 



Where one has first-class white oak barrels is it rea- 

 ly necessary to wax them ? J. I*. Swakthout. 



Dresden, X. Y. 



Certainly not, if they don't leak, but we have 

 never found any that would bear transporta- 

 tion without leaking enough to more than pay 

 the expense of waxing. 



PROBLEM NO. 23. 



A. I. BOOT & Co.:— Standard extractor rec'fl all 

 right. Ought there not to lie some wire cloth used 

 with it to strain the honey? Ef so, send me a piece 

 suitable for that purpose. The extractor is a ••dii>- 



f'F we put an empty comb into a strong col- 

 i ony allowing it to remain from one to three 



days — not longer — it will contain eggs only. 

 Now if these eggs be put into a Queenless col- 

 ony, of course they will stand a good chance 

 of rearing Queens from larvae that were de- 

 signed for that purpose from the time the egi£ 

 hatches, and accordingly, we never get a Queen 

 in a shorter time than 16 days from the time 

 the comb was inserted in the first colony. 



If the Queenless stocks were given a comb 

 containing larvae of all aires, we frequently get. 

 a Queen in ten days. Now the point is, are 

 the former any longer lived, or any more pro- 

 lific than the latter'/ We particularly desire 

 facts from experience, from those who have 

 no pet theory to defend in the matter. The oft 

 repeated arguments, that "it stands to reason'" 

 or that " 'tis contrary to nature" etc. etc., can- 

 hot be accepted as proof. Tell us what you, 

 have seen, and done. 



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Corks to tit (\% inch) 65 



Tin-foil, per lb, 55 



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and cut, per gross — 60" 



" thousand 3.50 



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QUINBY'S NEW SMOKER. 



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 By putting old rags, rotten wood, or other material in 

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