350 



gleai^IjS^gs in bee cultlee. 



Oct. 



EXTUACTIXi FROM BROKEN PIECES 

 OF CO TIB OK B ROITI SECTfiON BOXtS. 



^1p||HE extractor that you sent me is just O. 

 "^ »li It works right up to the point. I cannol 



P. Q. 



ight up to the point. I cannot wish 

 for any l)etter, but would like to know if you 

 haven't some other attachment, so that we can ex- 

 tract from small pieces of comb, ii so, please an- 

 swer through Gleanings, or say how It can be 

 clone. Geo. Castello. 



Saginaw City, Mich., Aug. 19, 1878. 



As we always use tiie L. extractor, we 

 have extracted from pieces of comb, by set- 

 ting them up on the wire cloth at the bot- 

 tom. The smaller, shallow extractors, for 

 Gallup, Adair, and American frames, have 

 no such attachment ; therefore some ar- 

 rangement is really needed for the purpose. 

 At the same time, it would be very handy for 

 the tall exti-actors, when any mishap occurs 

 to break a comb down, or when we wish to 

 extract from heavy pieces of comb, in warm 

 weather. Several devices have been describ- 

 ed in the journnls, but none of them suit me 

 so w^U as the one tigured below, which was 

 sent me by a friend in the South, whose name 

 I have baen so unfortunate as to lose. If he 

 will send us his name again, I will give him 

 proper credit, and .53.00 for his invention. 



He uses it for extracting from section boxes 

 also, but I think I should prefer to do this in 

 the broad fr inies that hold them, thus doing 

 a full set of 8 at one time. AVith this ma- 

 chine, only one could be extracted at once. 



EXTRACTOR FOR PIECES OF COMB. 



At C are a pair of hinges, that the machine 

 may be opened, the more readily to receive 

 a heavy, soft comb. The wires, B, are of one 

 piece, and are also made to turn that tliey 

 may be hooked into A , when the comb is 

 properly in place. The hooks. A, are to hook 

 over the top bar of the inside of the revolv- 

 ing frame of the extractor. If our friend 

 chooses to let me manufacture them, the 

 price will be2/3c.; if Wiuited by mail, add 10c 

 for postage. 



WHOSE INVENTION IS IT ? 



I CONFESS, I do not know juat what is right and 

 proper in these matters, and I will submit the cases 

 o you all. In the June No. of the A. B. J., Mr. Win- 

 der accuses me of copying and appropriating his 

 curved point honey knife, and wax extractor. Mr. 

 Quinby made and advertised the first curved point 

 honey knife I ever saw; and Mr. Winder, at least, 

 advertised none, until some time after this. While 

 Mr. Q. was alive, 1 never thought of supplying them. 

 If I am correct, the first I ever made, was to fill an 

 order for Mr. L. C. Root. In all my price lists, I 

 state very plainly that I prefer my original straight 

 bladed knife. The first wax extractor 1 ever saw, 

 was purchased of Gray smd Winder, and their adver- 

 tisement states (see A. B. J., .Tuly, 1871) that the ma- 

 chine was imported by Mr. Gray. If I am correct, it 

 was n Gcn-man invention. The -machine I bought 



cost me :?8.00. I wrote, at once, that they should be 

 made cheaper. As the parties refused to do this, I 

 made a similar one to be used on a common milk 

 pan, at an expense of 83.00. I think Mr. Winder 

 will agree to this. I did copy, at least, in part, the 

 implement I bought of Messrs. Gray and Winder, 

 but as they did not claim to be inventors, It looks 

 to me as if I was excusable, especially as it was 

 for the purpose of doing a public good. Since it 

 is very likely that I take a selfish view of the mat- 

 ter as is natural, I will pay the above firm $2^M 

 for the copying I did, providing I can use the 

 money to pay the debt the said firm justly and 

 hf)nestly owe Mr. Parker. This will satisfy all par- 

 ties, and, I hope end all complaints. 



A friend writes as follows: 



I think the idea of friend Slack, in regard to trans- 

 ferring larvie to queen cells in Italianizing, deserves 

 a place in the A B C. What say you? I am much 

 interested in that work, and hopeto see it as com- 

 plete as possible. L. S. Jones. 



I agree with j'ou, but friend Slack did not origin- 

 ate the idea; he got it from a friend in the South, 

 and this friend found it given in an old No. of 

 Gi-BANiNGS, by .1. L. Eavis, of Delhi, Mich. For a 

 year or two, we supposed friend Davis was the orig- 

 inal inventor, and called it Davis' transposition 

 process; but a subscriber, in California, has recent- 

 ly furnished pretty good evidence that he and his 

 brother made the plan work several years before 

 friend Davis did. Who is the inventor? and who 

 deserves the thanks? Many of these things belong 

 so nearly to a great many of you, that I think we 

 had better give God the thanks; and rejoice that we 

 have helped even a little. I was going to wind 

 up with something about patents, but I think i 

 won't, even if friend Shuck has taken inj' simplicity 

 feeder and put some sticks and wire cloth on it and 

 had it patented. It is a very pretty little feeder, 

 anyway, and maybe he thinks he had as much right 

 to my ifeeder as I had to friend Winder's wax ex- 

 tractor. I shan't quarrel anj' more to-day, or scold 

 either; see if I do. 



P. S.— Transferring of larvae will appear in A B C 

 part third, which will be published next month on 

 the new press. 



The Smoker I am othnng the present season, is 

 entirely new ni nian> i expects, and is pronounced 

 the best in market. In (juality of material and man- 

 ner of construction, it is as durable as can be made. 

 It works as perfectly in everj' way, as any smoker 

 now in use. 



See what bee-keepers say of it. 



"I have thoroughly tested the smoker. It works 

 like a charm. Everything about it is perfect. They 

 are made in a thorough and workmanlike manner. 



1 consider it the best smoker in use." 

 Wenham, Mass., July 10, 1878. H. Alley. 

 "After selling a large number of your smokers we 



are gratified to know that they give general satisfac- 

 tion. We keep all the prominent styles in stock, 

 and whenever a visitor buys one he always selects 

 the New Quinbv in preference to any other." 



Canajoharie, "N. Y., July 17, 1878. J. H. Nellis. 



Sent on receipt of price. 

 2V, inch tube by mail ?l 75 



2 " " " -. 150 



Bv express 35 cents less. 



Send for circular of General Supplies to 

 5-1 L. C. ROOT, Mohawk, N. Y. 



