SEPTEMBER 1. lIPITi 



WFvVTIIER, AND LOTS OF FT 



UN A. K. BKRCUJinS'L' 



It lias nut bt't'ii all 

 suiisliiiie for beekeep- 

 ers around here this 

 year. April opened 

 nice and warm; but 

 all of May and uj) to 

 the present, June 14, 

 wo Imve. had unfavor- 

 able weather, cold and 

 rainy. The picture 

 shows how the hives 

 were covered up with 

 ice and snow at the 

 cold spell we had Mav 

 It). 17, 18. 



The clover here was 

 badly winter-killed, so 

 we shall liave to look 

 forward to the bass- 

 wood for a crop of honey this season. 



Lindstroni, Miini. 



[This picture is interesting- at this time 

 in that it shows some of the extremes of 



temperatures that the bees may have lo 

 .vithstand in the late spring'. Good jiiepa- 

 ration in the fall is a good form of insur- 

 ance. — Ed.] 



A PRIMEVAL HONEY-EXTRACTOR 



BY P. C. CHADWICK 



It recently came to my notice that River- 

 side County, Cal., has one of the oldest 

 extractors in the nation, and, without doubt, 

 the oldest in the West. The matter of the 

 origin of this machine has a history well 

 vvorth a place in the annals of inventions 

 — not that there were no other extractors in 

 the market at the time of the manufactur- 

 ing' of this one. for thei-e were a few. But 

 the inventor. Captain Jeremiah Sanders, 87 

 years of ag-e, had no knowledge of there 

 being- an all-niolal extractor in existence at 

 the time he conceived the idea of having 

 this one made. 



It was made in San Diego, in February. 

 187.'). by a i)lumber. W. A. Begole, under 

 the directions of Capt. Sanders. In the 

 accompanying: illustration may be seen 

 something of the shape and substantial 

 work in this machine. 



T had a visit with Capt. Sanders in 

 Dccembei-, and a pleasant one indeed. Al- 

 iliouirh a ma?i of 87 years, blind, and a 

 criiiple for the past fourteen years, his 

 mind is dear and his memory excellent. He 

 took me back over the early days of Cali- 

 fornia beekeeping-, when he fii-st came here 

 and besan working- with bees. He told me 

 of the wonderful rro)>s secured in the early 

 days — crops that Capt. Sanders thinks we 



shall never see again. He was personally 

 acquainted with both of the firm of Clark 

 & Harbison. Capt. Sanders became inter- 

 ested in bees in 1367 in Johnson County, 

 Mo., and moved to California in the early 

 seventies, going lo San Diego County to 

 locate. He first worked for a man by the 

 name of Mitchel, later taking up the work 

 for himself. From San Diego County iie 

 came to Riverside County, Avhere he follow- 

 ed the business for a number of years. 

 Fourteen years ago he was attacked by a 

 vicious bull aii.d almost killed, though he 

 lecovered to such an extent that he has 

 been able to go with difficulty on crutches. 

 The can is a very heavy g-ahanized ii-on. 

 The cross-bar holding the gear and baskets 

 is an exceptionally heavy casting-. The can 

 is in two parts. The upper part, holding 

 the baskets and g-earing, has a cone-shaped 

 open bottom, and rests in the lower ))art, 

 or honey recei)tacle, telescope style. That 

 is to say, the iii^per division fits into the 

 lower pai-t tightly. The lower division has 

 an opening for a faucet or plug to allow 

 the removal of the honey from below. This 

 ai-rangement does not show well in the \nc- 

 lure, which was taken at near sundown, and 

 it was impossible to get the light necessary 

 to show all of the parts. 



