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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 1 



and size are such that no insect, except 

 for the treasure it contains, would ever 

 stop to pay its respects to it. Over and 

 over again, if you examine some of the 

 most celebrated honey-plants, you w^ill 

 find this beautiful balance of nature — 

 a fact announced by some of the best 

 scientists many years ago. 



THAT EXTRACTOR THAT REVERSES UN- 

 DER FULL SPEED. 



These specimens of plants were pluck- 

 ed in the neighborhood of Mr. Mcln- 

 tyre's Sespe apiary. And that reminds 

 me that I wish to say something about 

 the unique extracting-equipment he has 

 at his yard; for I believe it is the mott 

 complete and perfect of any thing of the 

 kind in the world. A few years ago we 

 illustrated and described his extractor 

 — one that he invented — and how the 

 same is operated by water power. As 

 we have many new readers I can not do 

 any better than to place it, with some 

 illustrations, in these columns again, 

 for they show very accurately the out- 

 fit which I saw, and which was throw- 

 ing out honey in the most wholesale way 

 imaginable. An inspection of the line 

 cuts shows that the pockets are pivoted 

 on the sides, on a vertical line, and all 

 geared together with chains and sprockets. 

 The average pockets, it will be remember- 

 ed, are pivoted, or, rather, hinged, like a 

 door, swinging both ways. When the combs 

 are inserted in the extractor, one of the han- 

 dles at the top, as at A, is revolved so that 

 the baskets are placed inside of the shaft on 

 which it revolves. The combs are insert- 

 ed, water power is put ou, and the honey 



is thrown out. While the machine is under 

 full motion, lever B is raised up, releasing 

 a catch, which permits the pockets that are 

 now inside the center of revolution and out 

 of balance to be thrown by centrifugal force 

 the other side to, or outside of the vertical 

 shafts or center of revolution, so that they 

 stand as in the larger illustration. It is 

 true that, at the moment of reversing, there 



M'INT^RE'S water-power AUTOMATIC REVERSIBLE EXTRACTOR. 



