1903 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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JUMBO EXTRACTORS DRIVEN BY POWER. 

 We are now building- jumbo machines of 

 eiffht- frame capacity, geared up for power. 

 The illustration herewith shows one of the 

 machines. It has the regular Cowan prin- 

 ciple for reversing-, and is built strong in 

 every way. As will be noted by the handle 

 near the pulleys, it has a powerful street- 

 car band brake, so that the machine can be 

 stopped almost instantlj-, even from a high 

 rate of speed. This particular extractor is 

 designed to be driven by means of a gaso- 

 line-engine. We have also made arrange- 

 ments whereby these engines can be sup- 

 plied with the machines. Gasoline power 

 is much cheaper than any thing else. The 

 first cost is much less, so also the cost of 

 operating. 



THE IMPROVED BOARDMAN FEEDER. 



Very recentlj' we made an improvement 

 on what is known as the Boardman entrance 

 feeder. The old type of this feeder was on 

 the Hains atmospheric principle. This at 



times was unsatisfactory for the reason that, 

 if the can of sj'rup were out of plumb, the 

 syrup would run over and leak. We final- 



THE BOARDMAN FEEDER WITH NEW PER- 

 FORATED CAP. 



A JCMBO COWAN POWKR-DR tVEN KXTRACTOK. 



ly, at considerable expense, 

 constructed a die that would 

 make exceedingly small holes 

 in the cap of an ordinary Ma- 

 son jar, carrying out in effect 

 the atmospheric principle first 

 applied to bee- feeders by the 

 veteran E. France, father of 

 N. E. France, General Man- 

 ager of the National Bee-keep- 

 ers' Association. These small 

 perforations in the cap let out 

 the feed only fast enough for 

 the use of the bees. If the syr- 

 up is made properly there will 

 be no leakage. The advan- 

 tage of this feeder is that it 

 can be placed at the entrance 

 of any hive ; and as one goes 

 down the hive-alleyways he 

 can determine how fast the bees 

 are taking feed, and whether 

 the feeders are empty. With 

 a wheelbarrow-load of filled 

 cans he can very easily re 

 move the empty ones and put 

 tilled ones in their stead. For 

 stimulative feeding in spring, 

 there is nothing better, and 

 especiallj' for a queen-breed- 

 er. We use it regularl}' on 

 our queen-rearing hives to keep 

 up the general prosperity of 

 the colony, for to get large 

 well-developed cells — that is, 

 providing honey is not coming 

 in from natural sources — the 

 colony must be highly prosper- 

 ous. When feeding nuclei we 



