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fair. Suppose you approach him in tliis 

 way: 



" Neighbor Z, since our conversation the 

 other day, 1 am forced to think that there is 

 some reason I do not know of for the 

 course you have decided on in regard to 

 keeping black bees. Now, may be I was 

 wrong ; if so, please forgive me. I know it 

 is your privilege to keep black bees if you 

 choose, and I will try to feel pleasant and 

 friendly toward you, even should you per- 

 sist in doing this. If you do not object, 

 however, I shall be glad to have you tell me 

 the exact reasons why you think best to de- 

 cline assisting me in this matter that I feel 

 so anxious about ; namely, in repressing 

 black drones as much as possible in my 

 neighborhood. We botli love the common 

 Master, who has said, ' Thou shalt love thy 

 neighbor as thyself ;" and while this is true, 

 it is strange if we can not arrange a little 

 matter like this pleasantly, and with neigh- 

 borly feelings." Now as I bid you adieu, 

 my two friends, may God's blessing and 

 great love rest over you; and, in the lan- 

 guage used by Jude, " the servant of Jesus 

 ('hrist," let me say, " Unto him that is able 

 to keep you from falling, and to present you 

 faultless before the presence of his glory 

 with exceeding joy, to the only wise God 

 our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion 

 and power, both now and ever. Amen." 



^ECEN^ DKYELQPfilENTg 



IN BEE CULTURE. 



CONDUCTED BY ERNEST R. ROOT. 



THAT EDITORIAL "WE." 



fOU see by the heading above, that I 

 have started a new department, or, 

 rather, reinstated an old one, to be 

 inserted occasionally when material 

 calls for it. There are several reasons 

 why I do so. In the first place, I dislike to 

 hide personality under the editorial "we.'" 

 When I read an article 1 like to know who 

 wrote it, and who is responsible for the 

 statements. Several of the recent innova- 

 tions I have written up in regular style, 

 using the plural i)ronoun instead of the 

 singular ; but I always felt as if I were 

 hedged in by that little word of two letters. 

 Wliile I shall not now discard entirely the 

 editorial "we" in reply to general corres- 

 pondence, in this department (and also in 

 the department of Our Own Apiary) I want 

 to arrogate to myself the privilege of " using 

 I as often as I please," as Dr. Miller says, 

 for I believe that less of " We, Us & Co.," 

 and more personality, is what we want in 

 articles written in regard to our rapidly 

 growing pursuit. Another reason why I felt 

 constrained to start this department "is be- 

 cause the recent i m pro vements are not always 

 appropriate to be considered under the head 

 of "Our Owji .Vpiary," or under general 

 heads elsewhere. Still a third reason is, 

 that Gleanings prides herself because of 

 the personality of her writers ; and a fourth 



reason is, that the times call for it. So 

 there ! 



I may not always pick out that which is 

 recent and that which is new or worthy of 

 further development, l)ut I shall spare no 

 pains in watching both foreign and Ameri- 

 can bee-jonrnals for material for this depart- 

 ment. With this preface I am now going to 

 talk again about something in the line of 

 extractors wliich eject honey from l»oth sides 

 of the comb, without reversing either the 

 motion or the combs. 



THAT NEW EXTKACTOR, AOAIN. 



Since my comment on the article on page 

 (j8o, in regard to a recent German extractor, 

 I have had some little correspondence with 

 Dr. C. C. Miller, who has been thinking of 

 this matter not a little. lie is quite san- 

 guine as to the success of the new method of 

 extiacting from combs. In a private letter 

 dated Sept. 4, he says : 



Dear Ernest:—! want to say a word to encourajie 

 you in thoi-oug-hly testing- the extractor shown on 

 page 683. The principle is all right, 1 believe. 



In another private letter received, the 

 doctor drew several diagrams, and added a 

 great many suggestions, Bome of which I will 

 incorporate in this article. His letter was 

 submitted to Mr. Warner, and the latter 

 finally made a working drawing embodying 

 Miller's drawings in one. The accompany- 



DIAGRAM OF AN EXTRACTOR AVHICH DOES 



NOT REQUIRE 'J HE REVERSAL OF 



COMBS OR 3IOTION. 



ing is the diagram, and is reduced exactly 

 ten times. \ ou will see that, instead of 

 putting the combs in horizontally, as was 

 mentioned in the article translated from the 

 German bee-journal, page 68.'), they are to be 

 placed in vertically, the bottom-bar of each 

 frame parallel with the spindle. The dia- 

 gram shows a cross-sectional view, looking 

 down into the extractor. B li shows the 

 individual end-bars of the frames. The ra- 

 diating lines parallel to the end-bars on 

 either side represent comb-pockets. The 

 inside circle II, II, represents the rim which 

 supports and holds the comb-pockets ; 

 the outside circle, K, K, the can itself. 

 The bottom-bar of each frame is just an 



