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above, down upon the cross-bar to 

 which the gearing' is attached. 



The bearings for the crank-shaft are 

 removed, and new holes made for the 

 bolts that hold them to the cross-bar, 

 and then replaced in such a position 

 that the shaft can be slipped back so 

 as to throw the gear wheels out of con- 

 nection. To hold the wheels in gear a 

 metal fork is attached to a piece of 

 spring-metal fastened to the piece of 

 timber that holds down the extractor. 

 The spring holds the prongs of the 

 fork each side of the shaft, and when 

 the fork is in this position the wheels 

 are held in gear. A handle attached 

 to the spring allows the operator to 

 easily and quickly pull back the fork 

 and catch it against the shaft-bearing, 

 where it remains securely, until a 

 slight touch releases it, when the 

 spring forces it back upon the shaft, 



where it again crowds the cog wheels 

 into gear. 



The management is as follows: A 

 set of combs is upcapped, placed in the 

 extractor, the motion run up to a high 

 speed, then the crank-shaft slipped out 

 of gear, when the heavy combs and 

 reel will spin like a top; silently but 

 effectually emptying the combs while 

 the operator is busy uncapping mote 

 combs. When he has half enough 

 combs uncapped for another set, if the 

 reel has not stopped revolving, he 

 places his foot on the brake, stopping 

 it initnediately, and reversing the pock- 

 ets, when the gears are again slipped 

 together, the speed run up, the gears 

 slipped apart and the reel allowed to 

 spin while the rest of the set of combs 

 is being uncapped. 



Flint, Mich., March, 26, 1905. 



BY E. F. ATWATER. 



^7HE May and June numbers of the 

 T^ Review for 1904 were especially 

 interesting to me, because of the articles 

 on "shook-swarming and comb honey 

 production" by E. D. Townsend. I 

 have quite a number of the regular 

 Heddon Hives, of eight-frame width, 

 also the same thing nine frames wide, 

 and one inch deeper than the standard 

 Heddon. So when Mr. Townsend ad- 

 vised hiving on a Heddon case, full of 

 comb, with an empty case beneath, and 

 one or more supers with full sheets of 

 foundation and "bait-combs" above, I 

 immediately put the method to a prac- 

 tical test, in my "Shepard" yard, 

 three miles east of Star, Idaho. 



TROUBLES THAT SOMETIMES COME WHEN 



SWARMS ARE HIVED ON COMBS 



INSTEAD OF STARTERS. 



I followed Mr. Townsend's advice, 

 to the letter, on a number of colonies. 

 On my next visit to this yard, six days 

 later, imagine my surprise, upon ex- 

 amining the hives, to find that most of 

 these shook-swarms had partially, or 

 wholly, neglected the comb-honey 

 supers, filled the Heddon combs with 

 honey and a little brood, and built 

 comb from the bottom-bars of the set of 

 Heddon combs, nearly or quite filling 

 the empty case with new comb honey, 

 and brood ! Then, again, imagine the 



