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the friction driving" gear gave too much trouble by slipping, so both 

 the friction driving gear and the high and low speed regulator 

 were discarded and a tooth bevel gear put in to drive by. 



I have very few combs breaking down since using a small frame 

 well wired. At the present time I am using an extractor that will 

 reverse the comb baskets by simply reversing the direction the reel 

 is traveling. This is done by using two belts from a counter shaft, 

 one straight and one cross belt. It is not necessary for the opera- 

 tor to wait for the extractor to stop in order to reverse. .Simply 

 raise the tightener on the tight belt and drop it on the loose belt, 

 and go on with your work ; the reverse motion on the reel will 

 reverse the baskets. 



But this continual reversing, starting and stopping of honey 

 extractors is hard on them, therefore if you have power use a large 

 extractor. The more combs it will take at a load the less number 

 of times it will be necessary to stop and start, and the longer the 

 combs have a chance to whirl in the extractor the drier they will be. 



I think the slowing up of an extractor in order to reverse the 

 combs is entirely unnecessary. I am experimenting with a device 

 in which the combs will be reversed at full speed. Another attach- 

 ment I wish to add to the extractor another season is the honey 

 pump to convey the honey to the strainer on top of the store tanks, 

 for as 3^ou may notice I use the cloth strainer, not having used the 

 new gravity strainer as yet. The only way I am using gravity is 

 in the honey extractor. By keeping a large amount of honey in the 

 extractor I can float the coarser particles of cappings and keep the 

 strainer clear a louir time. 



Beet Sugar as a Winter Feed for Bees — A Valuable 



Experience. 



A. S. PARSON, Rocky Ford, Colorado. 



ON page 8, March Review, I see a clipping purporting to be 

 Prof. Sanders' experience with beet sugar as bee feed. I do 

 not know whether Wisconsin beet sugar is the same as Col- 

 orado beet sugar, or not, but will say I have fed several thousand 

 pounds of Colorado beet sugar without any perceptible damage. 



Several years ago we experienced a season here in the Ark Val- 

 ley oi total failure so far as storing surplus was concerned, and with- 

 out feeding we would have lost all our bees. That winter a fire 

 broke out in one of the American Beet Sugar Co.'s warehouses and 

 between fire, water and chemicals several tons of sugar was badly 

 damaged. After the fire, this sugar, mixed with charcoal ashes and 

 dirt, was shoveled up in piles, and I, with others, bought and fed it 



