OCTOBER 1. 1916 



"the treatment is all right in the bands of 

 the expert and (he earefnl; bnt with the 

 negligent and the careless, additional treat- 

 ment should be applied." 



With this preliminary we will now intro- 

 duce Mr. House, who is seen at the right, 

 rig. 2. In the center is Mr. Clark, of Doo- 

 little & Clark ; and at the left is Mr. Raut, 

 another New Yorker, who came with the 

 two other gentlemen. In Fig. 3 is seen A. I. 

 Root in his electric automobile telling some 

 of his early experiences as a beekeeper. He 

 mentioned his mistakes as well as his suc- 

 cesses. In recounting some of his blunders 

 _ he provoked a smile on the faces of his 

 " hearers ; and at just that strategic moment 

 our artist caught the 

 trio as in Fig. 2. In 

 Fig. 3 A. I. Root is seen 

 in one of his character- 

 istic poses when he is 

 just on the eve of bring- 

 ing out his point. It is 

 a very natural picture 

 of him as we see him 

 • every day in the ofiice. 



Fig. 1 shows the beekeepers sitting on 

 extemporized seats eating their honey 

 luncheon and drinking their honey cereal 

 coffee, winding up with honey ice-cream. 

 Over at the extreme right it. seen A. I. Root 

 addressing the beekeepers. The seats are on 

 the lawn of E. R. Root, under the apple- 

 trees, Avith the house in the background. 



Among other speakers of the evening- 

 were Mr. Fred I^eininger, a breeder of fine 

 queens, and President of the Ohio State 

 Beekeepers' Association ; Mr. House, Mr. 

 Clark, and Bee-inspectors Ames and Phil- 

 lips ; Prof. Jas. S. Hines, of the Oliio State 

 University, and Melville Hayes, an attorney 

 at Wilmington, 0. 



On both days, modern extracting machin- 

 erj', including a power extractor and an 

 uncapping-outfit, were in operation for the 

 visitors. All were given the privilege of 

 going thru the factory buildings, including 

 the honey-bottling department, where honey 

 is being put up for the general market. 



On the afternoon of the first day a mov- 

 ing-jDicture film showing many live-bee 

 operations was put on for the benefit of the 

 visitors, at the Princess Theater, Medina. 



On the second day, the company were 

 taken in automobiles to the queen-rearing 

 yards north of town, where the entire oper- 

 ation of rearing queens w^as illustrated and 

 described. 



A FAN FOR HOT DAYS IN THE EXTRACTING- 

 ROOM. 



When the crowd reached the extracting- 

 room there was considerable joking about 



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the "w^indmill" up over the extractor; but 

 when we started up, the affair proved the 

 truth of the saying, " Handsome is as hand- 

 some does." It was a hot day, and the 

 breeze easily felt fifteen feet away was very 

 welcome. This sort of fan means very little 

 additional load for the engine, requires no 

 extra belting or machinery, and can be con- 

 structed at a very slight expense. A half- 

 inch pipe with a coupling on the lower end 

 will just slip over the upper end of the 

 vertical shaft in the extractor. There ought 

 to be one or two set-screws in the coupling 

 to hold the pipe firmly to the shaft. 



At the upper end of the pipe there should 

 be a saw-cut running down thru the middle 



a distance of 4^/2 inches, 

 and at right angles to it 

 another one the same 

 depth. Two pieces of 

 heavy sheet metal, four' 

 inches wide and three 

 feet long, should each 

 be bent to a right angle 

 in the middle. A thin 

 board eight inches wide 

 for a paddle should be 

 tacked to each end of 



I lie two pieces of sheet melal. When these 

 wings thus made are drop])ed into the saw- 

 cut a cap should be screwed on to the upper 

 end of the pipe holding them solid. The 

 fan is completed by giving each board a 

 twist, making a uniform bend in the sheet 

 metal next to the pipe. 



When running, if tlie fan shows a ten- 

 dency to wabble somewhat, a small hole 

 may be drilled into the center of the cap 

 on the upjier end of the pipe, and wooden 



