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honey less scattered. The comb-cases (cc) are hinged 
at A, and pass into their new positions as the arrows 
indicate. To this plan it is objected that the saving 
in time is inappreciable, if any, and that the double 
motion of the revolving cage and the hinged cases 
gives the whole an undesirable loose-jointedness, 
but the form of the cages makes them handy for ex- 
tracting from loose pieces of comb. 
The “Automatic” (B), so called because the combs 
reverse upon the stopping of the handle, has two racks 
and stops, permitting the comb-cases (cc, cc) to 
take a half-rotation upon the pivots (/,/). The inser- 
tion of the unsealed combs is an awkward affair, as 
they cannot be slipped in from above, but at the side, 
which is removable, but needs fixing, for an obvious 
reason. Turning the handle in one direction extracts 
one side ; reversing the handle reverses the combs, 
and extracts the other ; but this trifling advantage is 
far outweighed by the mess and bother of inserting 
and releasing the combs at the beginning and end 
of the operation. At its birth it was highly eulo- 
gised;* in justice, therefore, to my readers, I must 
point out that it needs a very large can in propor- 
tion to the radius-distance it affords. In Figs. A and 
B we get a comparison, as here the radius-distances 
are equal. It is more complex and expensive than 
other extractors ; very messy and wasteful, as the 
cages get coated through and through, and the large 
can covered within. The objectionable draught is 
here greater than in any other, while, in point of 
Cowan’s “ Bee-keeper’s Guide-book,” page O9. 
