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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



The Use of Root's 



With the increased interest in and demand for the better grades of extracted honey, 

 all beekeepers, large and small, are interested in honey-extractors. The time was when 

 the small beekeeper thought it didn't pay to produce extracted honey, and, as a consequence, 

 he lost quite a large per cent of the actual profit his bees might have made him. For 

 instance, during the past summer, with the remarkable honey-flow there was in many 

 localities, even in an apiary of ten colonies an extractor might have been made to pay for 

 itself in a single day. Record honey-flows like this demand a rapid handling of the combs 

 if the bees are to take advantage of the flow of nectar. They can not make new combs 

 fast enough to store the nectar that must be gathered within a few hours, or it is lost. If 

 the filled combs can be taken from a hive, extracted, and replaced at once, they will be 

 filled again with astonishing raj^iclity, and hundreds of pounds of honey harvested that 

 would otherwise have been lost. 



For the small apiary the hand-run extractors 

 are usually sufficient ; but where any number of col- 

 onies are kept from which to produce honey for 

 the market, the power-equi^jped extractors are by 

 far to be preferred. Even the first cost is very 

 moderate; and when the wonderful work done by 

 these machines is taken into consideration it will 

 readily be seen that the purchase of such a machine 

 is an investment which yields the beekeeper a hand- 

 some profit. 



A one-horse-power 

 air-cooled gasoline-en 

 gine connected to an 

 eight - frame extract- 

 or. For economy of 

 floor-space and con- 

 venience of the levers 

 this arrangement is 

 perhaps the best. 



The popularity of these machines is perhaps best estimated by reading letters re- 

 ceived from a few of our customers who are using them, and from the fact that our trade 

 in them is constantly increasing. We now have in the process of making, twelve Root 

 Automatic Extractors for one beekeeper in the West, who has 2000 colonies of bees, and 

 maintains 15 yards. Certainly this large beekeeper would not make such an investment 

 were he not sure of results. 



