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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



A few minutes later. Platform slid off ou the ground, staked down, engine bolted in place and all ready 

 to extract. 



outfit, much time is usually lost in bolting 

 the apparatus down to the floor. It takes 

 time to line up belts and make everything 

 secure so that it runs just right. If one 

 uses a screened wagon the outfit, of course, 

 is left on the wagon all the time, and no 

 time is lost; but if the outfit is put inside 

 of buildings and moved from one yard to 

 another it takes a good deal of expensive 

 time to get it set up ready for work. 



Our truck body is just 44 inches wide. 

 We built a stout floor, or platform, just 43 

 inches wide, 1 o n g 

 enough to hold a six- 

 frame power extractor 

 with engine and pump. 

 Everything was mark- 

 ed so that it took only 

 about fifteen minutes 

 after reaching the yard 

 to get the platform in- 

 side the building and 

 the outfit set up. The 

 pump, of course, does 

 not need to be removed 

 ordinarily, altho it can 

 be quickly unbolted 

 from its base if neces- 

 sary. It is a little 

 inconvenient to have to 

 step up five inches on 

 to this platform; but 

 when one becomes ac- 

 customed to it, it is 

 really no handicap. 



This year, for the first time, we used a 

 hose to convey the honey from the pump to 

 the tank. Heretofore we have always used 

 a galvanized pipe. A hose is a little more 

 convenient for a portable, outfit, for it may 

 be quickly disconnected and coiled up in- 

 side the extractor so that there is no drip 

 nor lost time in draining out pipes. If the 

 honey is to be elevated only four or five 

 feet, a hose of small diameter may be used ; 

 but it is much better, in order to avoid fric- 

 tion, to use a hose the full diameter of the 



Large hose carrying the honey from the pump to the tank, 

 all right, but costs "too much. 



A hose is 



