1882 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



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fj? INCLOSE you an advertisement clipped from 

 Ji[[ the American Pimliry Adviser, published at 

 Zanesville, O. Please show up in next Glean- 

 ings. W. Chapman. 

 Earlvillc, Portage Co., O., Sept. IJ, 1882. 



BIO SECRET OUT. 

 mSCOVKRY IX SCIENCE— TICKLES EVERYBODY. 



To manufacture honey on bee principles, at a cost of less than 

 f) cents a poun^l. To U':e it is a luxury and a matter of economy. 

 Nature's process shortened by science. Not artificial or a sub- 

 stitute, but real, pure, sweet, and superior to the average prod- 

 uct of the hive. Simple process; 300 per cent profit. Pays bipr 

 to sell or use in families. Recipe and rig-ht of sale, 82.00. Send 

 by registered letter. CHARLES TAYLOR, Commerce, la. 



Thanks, friend C, for promptly reporting 

 the coming-up again of an old swindle. 

 Since Gleanings began, this same fraud 

 has been several times exposed. The recipe 

 does not make honey, nor any thing like it, 

 and there is no " right " about this, nor any 

 other recipe that is offered for sale. Look 

 with suspicion on every man who wants to 

 sell you a recipe for doing any thing. Our 

 books and papers now contain all that is 

 valuable in this line, and $2.00 should buy a 

 large nicely bound treatise on almost any 

 subject, instead of paying that sum for a 

 mere scrap of paper, with just a few lines 

 printed or written on it. Journals that give 

 place to advertisements of this class will 

 surely suffer for it, sooner or later. 



GIVE PATENT-HIVE MEN A WIDE BERTH. 



Mr. J. H. Mclntyre came into our neighborhood 

 last March, representing a patent bee-hive, patent- 

 ed by one James T. Fife, Corning, Iowa. He spong- 

 ed two weeks' board for himself and team, and ob- 

 tained some two or three dollars in money for bee- 

 smokers and seeds of honey-plants, and two or three 

 10-dollar notes, and traded the notes to innocent 

 parties, and promised to be back the first of June, 

 then left, and has not been heard from since. 1 

 have written twice for information, but can not 

 hear from him. Please give this a corner in your 

 journal, and may be I can hear from him. 



Wm. Malone. 



Oakley, Lucas Co., Iowa, Sept., 1883. 



HOmE-ITI.\DE: BITZZ-SAW. 



ALSO SOMETHING ABOUT A SKETCHING-CAMERA, AND 

 HOW TO USE IT. 



||HE evening train of Oct. 3d brought Glean- 

 ings. While "skimming" it (as I always do 

 before sleeping) I noticed that a picture of my 

 buzz-saw was wanted. For a few minutes I was 

 puzzled. Take that great, unwieldy thing a dozen 

 miles to a photographer's I It would have to be 

 taken to pieces, brought home, and set up again. 

 To get a photographer to come here would cost $10.00. 

 If only I were artist enough to make a pencil sketch, 

 was my next soliloquism. Then, like a flash, came 



the recollection of an artist's sketching camera, that 

 was advertised at $1.2.5 in the Youth's Cimipanion 

 premium list; but after a thorough search it was 

 decided that the children had had the premium list 

 to "look at the pictures;" only a few leaves could 

 be found, and co camera was advertised upon those. 

 "Oh, yes! neighbor P. takes the CoinpanUni; perhaps 

 I can find a premium list at his home;" and with 

 this remark I went to bed to think. The next morn- 

 ing, soon after breakfast, I found a premium list at 

 neighbor P.'s. Out from my pocket came some 

 stationeiy and a fountain pen. An order was writ- 

 ten then and there, and, by faking lively steps, I 

 managed to have it go off in the morning's mail. 

 Oct. 11 (in just one week) the camera came. The 

 next morning I look the "machine" over to the 

 shop, and was not long in making two discoveries: 

 the shop was too small and too darh; and so after all, 

 the saw would have to be taken to pieces and set up 

 out of doors. In about two hours I had it in position 

 out on the "green grass," as the little girls said. 

 The sky was a little "hazy," and the image formed 

 upon the piece of ground glass at the back of the 

 camera was not so clear as it ought to be, and 

 when I covered it with the piece of white paper up- 

 on which I was to draw the sketch, I found that it 

 was "no go." But, having gone so far in the mat- 

 ter, I was determined not to be frustrated; so I oiled 

 the paper, and was then enabled to make a sketch 

 without much trouble; although after it was finish- 

 ed I noticed that the oil had caused the color 

 from the pencil to soak into the paper, thus 

 giving the drawing somewhat of a blurred appear- 

 ance. About noon, the sun came out bright and 

 clear, and I found that I could make a sketch upon 

 clear white paper that had not been oiled, so I made 

 another drawing. Inclosed you will find both sketch- 

 es. 



You asked for a picture in which I was standing 

 at the table, as when at work; but as the least move- 

 ment would destroy the picture, it would be very dif- 

 ficult for me to remain perfectly quiet long enough 

 to have a sketch of this kind made, while I do not 

 think it will be very difficult to imagine some one 

 standing there at the table, with his "fore foot" on 

 the little bench (G) and his "hind foot" kicking the 

 treadle (H). 



HUTCHINSON'S HOME-MADE HUZZ-S.VW. 



In addition to the description given last month, I 

 win explain as follows:— 



The framework that projects at one end of the 

 saw-table is to support one end of a long board, while 

 cutting pieces from the opposite end. The piece A 



